Tag: Coen Brothers
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LaRoy Texas: A Noir Comedy Where Everyone Gets It Mostly Right
MOVIE INFO: Broke and depressed, Ray (John Magaro) is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip (Steve Zahn), he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive. REVIEW: With a crime comedy set in a small Texas town, where everybody is…
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“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”: The Coen Brothers Revisit and Enhance the Western
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (on Netflix) is a sextette of Coen brothers Western vignettes that is a great representation of both their weird and serious side. The near assimilation of other Western directors styles is fused into something that is truly uniquely Coen, profoundly Western and still encansuplated great film making. Each tale can…