Tag Archives: The Coen Brothers

Coen Brothers Films Ranked

Posted on September 21, 2024 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine | Tagged A Serious Man, Barton Fink, Blood Simple, burn after reading, ethan coenn, Fargo, Hail Caesar!, Inside Llewyn Davis, Intolerable Cruelty, Joel Coen, Miller's Crossing, No Country for Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Big Lebowski, The Coen Brothers, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Ladykillers, The Man Who Wasn't There, true grit | 1 Comment

Review: No Country for Old Men (2007)

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Sam S-P

The Coen Brothers are two of the most distinctively voiced American filmmakers working today. Nobody else creates bleak mediations on existence or bittersweet morality tales quite like them at the top of their game. Their only Best Picture Academy Award … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Film, Film Review | Tagged Classic Film, Cormac McCarthy, Drama, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, No Country for Old Men, Roger Deakins, The Coen Brothers, Thriller, Tommy Lee Jones, Western, Woody Harrelson | Leave a comment

Fargo Season 2: Tall Tale Made in Weirdness

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Sam S-P

The following piece contains spoilers for Season 2 of FARGO. The first season of the TV companion piece to the Coen Brothers’ classic movie had me completely and utterly hooked. I felt sure no-one could hope to measure up to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature, Television | Tagged Angus Simpson, Crime, Drama, Fargo, Film, Gangster Film, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, Movies, Noah Hawley, Patrick Wilson, The Coen Brothers, TV | 2 Comments

Review: Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Sam S-P

The problem when you have a really good run is that even the slightest stumble becomes very noticeable. Over the last decade NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, A SERIOUS MAN and especially INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS made you forget that these … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged A Serious Man, Alden Ehrenreich, Bob Hoskins, Channing Tatum, Charlton Heston, Comedy, Eddie Mannix, Film, Film noir, Gene Kelly, George Clooney, Hail Caesar!, Hollywoodland, Inside Llewyn Davis, Josh Brolin, Movies, No Country for Old Men, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Burton, Roger Deakins, Singin' in the Rain, The Coen Brothers, The Ladykillers, The Majestic, Trumbo | Leave a comment

Review: Bridge of Spies (2015)

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Sam S-P

The thing about Steven Spielberg is that he’s consistent. A couple of clangers aside (and 1941 and A.I ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE are at least terrible in interesting ways) you can usually rely on him to deliver something special. That goes double … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged 1941, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Amy Ryan, Bridge of Spies, Eve Hewson, Film, Historical Drama, James Donovan, JFK, Mark Charman, Mark Rylance, Movies, Noah Schnapp, Rudolph Abel, Steven Spielberg, The Coen Brothers, The Spy Who Loved Me, Tom Hanks | 1 Comment

Review: Inherent Vice (2014)

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Sam S-P

Usually, a film’s plot or lack thereof is something I can rant on for hours about. Usually, if the plot doesn’t work, the film doesn’t work. That said, this is not a usual film, and I can say with absolute … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Benicio del Toro, Black Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Elliot Gould, Film, Film noir, Inherent Vice, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Movies, Owen Wilson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Altman, The Big Lebowski, The Coen Brothers, The Long Goodbye, The Master | 1 Comment

Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Sam S-P

Some critics have compared the Coen Brothers’ latest film, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS to their previous downbeat allegory for life and its essential rubbishness, A SERIOUS MAN. There are similarities, but in some ways I see it as more akin to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged A Serious Man, Adam Driver, Black Comedy, Bruno Delbonnel, Carey Mulligan, Ethan Coen, F. Murray Abraham, Film, Garrett Hedlund, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, John Goodman, Movies, Musical, No Country for Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Oscar Isaac, T-Bone Burnett, The Coen Brothers | 2 Comments

Fifteen Shades of Black: Part 1

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Sam S-P

This article was originally published on Subtitled Online May 2013 If there’s a single thing filmmakers working in Britain and Ireland do well it’s black comedy. Perhaps you can blame the awful weather – you have to find brightness in … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature, Subtitled Online | Tagged Alec Guinness, Alex Turner, Alice Lowe, Ben Wheatley, Billy Liar, Black Comedy, Brass Eye, Brendan Gleeson, Bunny and the Bull, Chris Morris, Christopher Eccleston, Craig Roberts, Danny Boyle, Don Cheadle, Ealing Comedy, Edward Hogg, Ewan McGregor, Father Ted, Film, Four Lions, Herbert Lom, Jesse Armstrong, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Kill List, Lethal Weapon, Liam Cunningham, Movies, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Paul King, Peep Show, Peter Sellers, Richard Ayoade, Sally Hawkins, Sam Bain, Shallow Grave, Sightseers, Steve Oram, Submarine, The Coen Brothers, The Guard, The Ladykillers, The Mighty Boosh, The Pink Panther, Yasmin Paige | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: The Coen Brothers

Coen Brothers Films Ranked

Review: No Country for Old Men (2007)

Fargo Season 2: Tall Tale Made in Weirdness

Review: Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Review: Bridge of Spies (2015)

Review: Inherent Vice (2014)

Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Fifteen Shades of Black: Part 1

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