No Country for Old Men
Did you know there’s an episode of Tom & Jerry where they both commit suicide at the end? I mention this partly because it’s the darkest thing I’ve ever seen […]
Tag Archives: coen brothers
Burn After Reading
A recently dismissed CIA analyst is blackmailed by a pair of hapless gym workers who stumble on a CD ROM containing his memoirs. Linda and Chad (Frances McDormand and Brad […]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
New comedy/drama/crime flick Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the best Woody Harrelson film with an unwieldy title since War for the Planet of the Apes. Frances McDormand gives another powerhouse performance as […]
Hail, Caesar!
Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest movie stars Josh Brolin as a square-headed fixer for a Hollywood studio in the 1950s. Thin on plot but full of ideas, Hail, Caesar! is more a series […]
Barton Fink
Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a struggling play-write in 1940s Los Angeles. When he’s commissioned to write a wrestling movie, he finds the transition to the big screen hard, spending his days pondering […]
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis is the new movie from everyone’s favourite Hollywood siblings. The Coen brothers. Not the Olsen twins. This drama follows a week in the life of Llewyn Davis […]
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Modern retellings of classic tales are nothing new, from Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet to Blancanieves, Snow White set in 1930s Spain. But this interpretation of Homer’s Odyssey – set […]
Screen Goblin 