Tag Archives: Coen Brothers

New on Canadian Netflix: August/September 2017

September 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to-solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) Death Note (2017) I was a big fan of Adam Wingard's The Guest (found elsewhere on this month's list), bit… Read More

Hail, Caesar! review — Drop By The Coens’ Hollywood party

February 8, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen | 106 min | ▲▲▲▲△ Once again the Coen Brothers celebrate their love of Hollywood's golden age with a knowing comedy in the spirit of The Hudsucker Proxy and Barton Fink, though lighter and sillier than both. Set largely at Fink's Capitol Pictures studio in the early 1950s—complete… Read More

Bridge of Spies review — Antiquated Crossings

October 16, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Spielberg | Written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen | 141 min Don't believe the marketing. Yes, Bridge Of Spies is set in the late 1950s and early '60s, based on a true story, and yes, it's set in the intelligence community of the United States, the Soviet Union, and… Read More

Unbroken review — Angelina Jolie’s passion project is missing something

January 6, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Angelina Jolie, written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson, from the book by Laura Hillenbrand I understand Angelina Jolie felt a serious emotional connection to this material. It's the true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete and World War II bombardier who survived untold horrors when his plane was… Read More