Joel and Ethan Coen

If You Like The Coen Brothers, You'll Love This New Play

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 02.05.2012

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NEW YORK — How long does it take while watching Ethan Coen's new play "Happy Hour" to realize that the title is ironic? Let's put it this way &n...

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'True Grit'? True Grace.

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cathleen Falsani

While many will argue that God's grace is notably absent elsewhere in the "Coeniverse," it is powerfully present in True Grit

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Movie Review: True Grit

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

While both the 1969 and the Coens bothers' remake are relatively faithful to the novel, the Coens more closely captures a sense of rough justice, and that even heroes have feet of clay.

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The Big Lebowski Spawns Literary Works

The New York Times | Dwight Garner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 movie, "The Big Lebowski," which stars Jeff Bridges as a beatific, pot-smoking, bowling-obsessed slacker known as the Dude,...

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"Burn After Reading" Tops Box Office

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and he...

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