[School of Movies 2023]
The final main feed instalment of our Coen Brothers series goes out with a double-bang of exceptionally gripping Westerns.
No Country for Old Men (2007, written by the recently departed Cormac McCarthy) is a tense game of cat and mouse. Josh Brolin discovers a drug deal gone very wrong and walks off with the money, and Javier Bardem plays the dead-eyed Terminator slowly but surely closing in on him. This whole case is followed by Sheriff Tommy Lee Jones who is scratching at his head to fathom the trail of violence he is witnessing.
And in True Grit (2010) the second adaptation of the 1968 Charles Portis novel, a brand new Hailee Steinfeld, aged 13 commands a grizzled old frump of a bounty hunter played by Jeff Bridges to help her track down her father's killer and see justice done. It somehow manages to surpass the classic John Wayne version in every way. And both of these were influences on my own writing.
If you want to hear what we have to say on the remaining Coen Brothers films you can catch our Patreon-excusive After School Club shows on The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, Burn after Reading, A Serious Man, Hail Caesar, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and The Tragedy of Macbeth.
2007: No Country for Old Men
2010: True Grit
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Abyss
Aliens
The Terminator
The Eternals
Castlevania (Netflix)
Interview With the Vampire
Candymen
What If? (Season 1)
No Time to Die
Spectre
Skyfall
Quantum of Solace
Casino Royale
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Castlevania (The Video Games)
Batman: The Animated Series
Free Guy
The Suicide Squad
Aquaman
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