By Simon Miraudo June 11, 2014 David Zellner‘s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is a real find; a curio about a collector and obsessive made for collectors and obsessives. It begins with the camera trained on a scratchy VHS tape of Fargo, and the remainder of the movie lives up to the promise of it being […]
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Joel & Ethan Coen rewriting Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller
May 22, 2014 
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Well, here are two great flavours that hopefully go great together. Joel and Ethan Coen, busy at work prepping their next film Hail Caesar, are taking the time to rework the script to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Cold War thriller, THR reports. Still untitled, the pic tells of attorney James Donovan’s real-life efforts to negotiate the […]
Continue readingJoel and Ethan Coen prep ‘Hail Caesar’ as their ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ follow-up
May 19, 2014 0 Comments
Joel and Ethan Coen will follow-up Inside Llewyn Davis with Hollywood satire Hail Caesar, Deadline reports. The directorial duo will return to their Barton Fink/Hudsucker Proxy roots, it seems, with Hail Caesar, a “comical yarn” that centers on a famed 1950s muckraker who spies on Hollywood celebs for a gossip magazine. Now, just because Deadline […]
Continue readingRocky road – Inside Llewyn Davis review
January 15, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo January 15, 2014 My first viewing of Inside Llewyn Davis occurred just before I embarked on a four-week holiday, and I was glad to have the break between the screening and my inevitable writing of the review. Unravelling the intricacies of the Coen brothers‘ latest torturous morality tale is not anyone’s sensible […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Inside Llewyn Davis
July 3, 2013 0 Comments
The new trailer for Inside Llewyn Davis is moody, bleak, and hints at the dark humour we’ve come to expect from Joel and Ethan Coen’s films. Set in 1961 in Greenwich Village, New York City, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is not having a good week. He’s a struggling folk singer who’s all about the music […]
Continue readingSoderbergh, Polanski, Payne, and the Coens compete at 66th Cannes Film Festival
April 19, 2013 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s swan song will face off against the latest efforts by Roman Polanski, Asghar Farhadi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Alexander Payne, and the Coen brothers at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The lineup reveals which pictures will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or, collected last year by Michael Haneke’s Amour. Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Inside Llewyn Davis
January 29, 2013 0 Comments
Thank folk for that! The trailer for the Coen brothers’ latest picture, Inside Llewyn Davis, has finally arrived. Loosely based on the life of Dave Van Ronk, it stars Oscar Isaac as Llewyn Davis, a folk singer trying to make it in Greenwich Village during the 1960s. Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, F. Murray Abraham, Garrett […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Gambit
October 2, 2012 0 Comments
Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz team up in the remake of 1966 crime caper Gambit, as the first trailer for the Joel and Ethan Coen penned film arrives online. Michael Hoffman (The Last Station, One Fine Day) directs this modern retelling which looks to bring a splash of the Coens’ humour to an Oceans Eleven […]
Continue readingCoen brothers working on Fargo TV show
September 27, 2012 0 Comments
Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo is headed to the small screen as FX signs a deal to develop a series based on the Academy Award winning crime drama, Deadline reports. Frances McDormand won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson, who unravels a crime thanks to the inept handiwork […]
Continue readingTwo serious men – Footnote review
April 16, 2012 0 Comments
Footnote – Starring Shlomo Bar-Aba and Lior Ashkenazi. Directed by Joseph Cedar. Rated PG. Originally published March 12, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Footnote opens in select Australian cinemas on April 19, 2012. Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is easily one of the most exciting and creatively executed films about Jewish academics poring over the Torah ever made, excluding perhaps Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man (which really does […]
Continue readingFargo might be getting (another) TV adaptation
March 27, 2012 0 Comments
The Coen brothers‘ Oscar winning classic Fargo might find new life on television … once again. According to Variety, FX is interested in adapting the North Dakota-based crime drama for the small screen. The original picture starred Frances McDormand as the polite-but-shrewd-and-very-pregnant police officer Marge Gunderson, tasked with investigating a very strange kidnapping and a series of […]
Continue readingTwo serious men – Footnote review
March 12, 2012 0 Comments
Footnote – Starring Shlomo Bar-Aba and Lior Ashkenazi. Directed by Joseph Cedar. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. Footnote plays the Perth International Arts Festival from March 12 – 25. Click here for more details. It arrives in cinemas nationally April 5, 2012. Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is easily one of the most exciting and creatively executed films about […]
Continue readingNorwegian hood – Headhunters review
February 28, 2012 0 Comments
Headhunters – Starring Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Synnøve Macody Lund. Directed by Morten Tyldum. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Headhunters plays the Perth International Arts Festival from February 26 to March 11. Click here for more details. It arrives in cinemas nationally March 8, 2012. Morten Tyldum‘s Headhunters is the latest adaptation of a […]
Continue readingThe top 10 Oscar losers
February 24, 2012 7 Comments
The top 10 Oscar losers. By Simon Miraudo. We’re sure that winning an Academy Award is one of the highest honours an artist in the field of film could ever hope for. And it hardly needs to be said that a fair few great flicks have been recognised by the Academy over the years. However, […]
Continue readingThe 10 best Nicolas Cage performances
February 16, 2012 16 Comments
The 10 best Nicolas Cage performances. By Simon Miraudo. Once upon a time, Nicolas Cage was one of the most respected actors on a planet. That time was before The Wicker Man, and public perception of the actor has shifted drastically in its wake. Though Cage has evolved from “bankable movie star” to “human punch […]
Continue readingJohn Goodman reteaming with Coen brothers for Inside Llewyn Davis
November 1, 2011 0 Comments
Frequent Coen brothers’ collaborator John Goodman is set to join their upcoming folk music flick Inside Llewyn Davis. Although Goodman has offered up memorable performances in plenty of the Coens previous films (Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski), he hasn’t worked with the duo since 2000’s O Brother, Where Art Thou? Showbiz 411 reports […]
Continue readingCarey Mulligan joins Coen brothers’ and Spike Jonze’s new films
October 21, 2011 0 Comments
Everyone’s favourite ingénue Carey Mulligan has just scored two major roles. She is set to star alongside Oscar Isaac in the Coen brothers’ newie Inside Llewyn Davis, and will also appear in Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman’s upcoming – and untitled – collaboration, Variety reports. The new Joel and Ethan Coen film centres on the folk music […]
Continue readingOscar Isaac cast in Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis
October 17, 2011 0 Comments
Up-and-coming actor Oscar Isaac has landed the lead role in the upcoming Coen brothers’ film, Inside Llewyn Davis, Deadline reports. Currently without US domestic distribution, the new Joel and Ethan Coen film centres on the folk music scene in 1960s’ Greenwich Village. Written by the brothers, and co-produced by Scott Rudin (No Country For Old […]
Continue readingCoen Bros. developing new TV show; Bored to Death meets Big Lebowski?
October 6, 2011 0 Comments
Joel and Ethan Coen – having conquered almost every genre on the big screen – are turning their eye to the world of television. According to Deadline, the Oscar-winning hermanos have created and will executive produce a new hourlong single-camera comedy alongside Cedar Rapids’ writer Phil Johnston. Titled HarveKarbo, the show concerns an “an ill-tempered LA […]
Continue readingThe Coen brothers’ new film has a title
September 1, 2011 1 Comment
Back in June it was revealed that Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen would follow up their True Grit remake with a film focusing on the Greenwich village folk scene of the 1960s, based on guitarist Dave van Ronk’s memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Variety now has the title: Inside Llewyn Davis. The film concerns the […]
Continue readingBad Santa 2 being written by duelling screenwriters
July 18, 2011 0 Comments
Screenwriters: enter the Thunderdome! Dimension Films has commissioned two screenwriters to pen individual scripts for a sequel to Bad Santa. According to the L.A. Times, the two writers (John Phillips and Johnny Rosenthal) are aware that they are participating in a writer’s duel. Although only one of the scripts will be selected for the sequel, there is […]
Continue readingJoel and Ethan Coen get folksy with follow-up
June 27, 2011 0 Comments
Back in February, Joel and Ethan Coen (jokingly?) suggested they might follow-up True Grit with a “full-on horror” movie, starring Frances McDormand as the monster. As fun as that sounds, much more believable details about their next project have emerged. According to The L.A. Times, the brothers are working on a script focusing on the […]
Continue readingHow the west was fun – True Grit review
June 7, 2011 0 Comments
True Grit – Starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld and Matt Damon. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Rated M. Originally published January 18, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Standard Coen Brothers Review Template: [Insert movie title] is the latest opus from the supremely talented writer/director/producer/editor duo. They reach into the annals of movie history to toy […]
Continue readingInterview: Barry Pepper (True Grit)
June 1, 2011 0 Comments
Interview: Barry Pepper (True Grit). By Simon Miraudo. Barry Pepper’s role in the Coen brothers’ remake of the classic western True Grit is a small but pivotal one. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) is on the hunt for the man responsible for her father’s death, with Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) and Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) […]
Continue readingJoel and Ethan Coen to dabble in horror?
February 10, 2011 0 Comments
Ah, those cheeky Coen brothers. If they’re not dooming their characters to lives of existential tragedy or holding a magnifying glass over them as if they were soon-to-be-ignited ants, they’re cracking wise with film journalists. In an interview with Empire, Ethan Coen discussed potential future projects. Although he dismissed the long-touted Barton Fink sequel Old […]
Continue reading>Diaz to star alongside Firth in Gambit
February 2, 2011 1 Comment
>Cameron Diaz is set to star opposite Colin Firth in Michael Hoffman’s remake of the 1966 action/comedy Gambit. Scripted by Joel and Ethan Coen, the film follows an art curator (Firth) who attempts to con a collector into purchasing a fake painting. According to Deadline, Diaz will star as a “Texas steer roper” who helps […]
Continue readingHow the west was fun – True Grit review
January 18, 2011 1 Comment
True Grit – Starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld and Matt Damon. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Standard Coen Brothers Review Template: [Insert movie title] is the latest opus from the supremely talented writer/director/producer/editor duo. They reach into the annals of movie history to toy with the styles and conventions […]
Continue readingTheatrical Trailer: The Coen Brothers’ True Grit
October 5, 2010 0 Comments
Last week we were treated to our first glimpse of the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit, via a short teaser trailer. However, a longer and more comprehensive look at the film was making the rounds in U.S. cinemas. Now, we measly Australians can see it, thanks to the wonders of the interwebs! Here is […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Coen Brothers’ True Grit
September 28, 2010 0 Comments
The first teaser trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen‘s remake of the classic western True Grit has debuted online. What, are you waiting for me to tell you it’s incredible? It’s the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit. Watch this eerie, beautiful teaser below! Previously: After auditioning more than 15,000 teenage actresses for the role […]
Continue readingFirst look at the Coen Brothers’ True Grit
August 18, 2010 0 Comments
The first official image from Joel and Ethan Coen‘s upcoming remake of True Grit has debuted online, featuring Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross (courtesy of Slashfilm). Previously: After auditioning more than 15,000 teenage actresses for the role of the bloodthirsty orphan Mattie, the Oscar-winning brothers selected 13-year-old Hailee […]
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