Tag Archives: Coen Brothers

Film review | Gambit – Colin Firth & Cameron Diaz try to peddle a fake (by the way, the script’s the forgery)

Posted on 20 November 2012 by Jason Best

Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman team up for a very loose remake of Ronald Neame’s breezy 1966 caper thriller Gambit, the light-hearted but intricately plotted heist movie in which Michael Caine’s cockney crook drafts Shirley MacLaine’s Eurasian nightclub … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 30 June 2011 by Dean & Ellen

Paul Space race… Simon Pegg and Nick Frost head the cast of this sci-fi comedy about two British comic book nerds who encounter a wise-cracking alien as they journey across the U.S. If you can see this, then you might … Continue reading →

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DVD review | True Grit

Posted on 22 June 2011 by Jason Best

Jeff Bridges steps into John Wayne’s oversize boots to play the larger-than-life role of whiskey-soaked, one-eyed marshal Rooster Cogburn in the Coen Brothers’ splendid Western remake True Grit. He’s the ornery lawman who’s hired by a precocious 14-year-old frontier girl … Continue reading →

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True Grit – The Dude fills the Duke’s boots for straight-shooting Coens

Posted on 11 February 2011 by Jason Best

Jeff Bridges steps into John Wayne’s oversize boots to play the larger-than-life role of whiskey-soaked, one-eyed marshal Rooster Cogburn in the Coen Brothers’ Western True Grit. Rapturously received in the US by critics and public alike, the Coens’ film sticks … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | A Serious Man – The Coen Bros put modern-day Job through the wringer

Posted on 22 March 2010 by Jason Best

The Coen Brothers return to the Midwest of their childhoods for A Serious Man, a mordant comedy set in an almost exclusively Jewish milieu in 1967 suburban Minnesota. They’re on home terrain, yet they observe their characters with their customary … Continue reading →

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Burn After Reading | Competition winners

Posted on 27 February 2009 by Jason Best

Our competition to win copies of the Coen Brothers’ wickedly dark comedy Burn After Reading is now closed. Well done to all our entrants – everyone answered correctly that, er, yes, the Coen Brothers directed the movie. We were inundated … Continue reading →

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The Best view | The Pink Panther 2

Posted on 10 February 2009 by Jason Best

You need to be smart to make a movie about the stupid, as the Coen Brothers have spent the best part of their career proving. Failing that, when attempting to make a movie about a prize nincompoop then it helps … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Burn After Reading

Posted on 9 February 2009 by Jason Best

  When a computer disc containing the memoirs of a disgruntled CIA analyst falls into the hands of a pair of dim gym workers, the pair reckon they can take advantage of this unexpected windfall, but their half-baked scheme quickly … Continue reading →

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Win Burn After Reading on DVD

Posted on 6 February 2009 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed. The latest wickedly dark comedy from the Coen Brothers, Burn After Reading comes out on DVD on Monday February 9th. To celebrate the film’s release we’re giving you the chance to win one of 3 … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Burn After Reading

Posted on 17 October 2008 by Jason Best

With their latest movie, Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers have disappointingly retreated from the chilly heights of their brilliant Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men and taken refuge in the glib, smartass cynicism that’s been a feature of so … Continue reading →

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