Coen

Are you looking forward to the next Ethan Coen film? Because we sure are – and we know a few things about Honey Don’t! that you should. I’m sure everyone reading this guide knows about the Coen brothers and their run of releasing some of the most critically acclaimed films that genuinely shifted the culture around filmmaking. The two directors have released movies like Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, No Country for Old Men, and many more, most of which have won awards and audience satisfaction. But,…

In the folklore that has grown up around the Coen brothers over the past 40 years, there are two siblings, Ethan and Joel, and Joel’s wife, actor Frances McDormand, who has been a regular since their first film, Blood Simple, and bagged an Oscar for her unforgettable performance as the pregnant policewoman in Fargo. Ultra-swotty groupies may remember that Ethan’s son, Buster, was credited as Matt Damon’s abs double on True Grit, though Buster was barely into his teens and Damon never displayed his abs.But unbeknown to…

During their time as a film-making team, Joel and Ethan Coen developed a reputation for uncanny synchronization, said by their collaborators to always give the same answer to any question even if asked separately. The brothers came to be called “the two-headed director”, but their respective features apart suggest a surgical detachment less than a single brain split in twain.A study in contrasts, the works produced during their brief hiatus – they’re rumored to already be back together, hard at work on their first foray…

NEW YORK (AP) — Scripts of all kinds sit in the drawers of Ethan Coen’s home, some to be returned to, some forever abandoned. When writing with his brother Joel over many years, the absurd narrative paths they’d venture down would inevitably lead to strange mental roadblocks. HT Image “Sometimes partial scripts would stop in mysterious places,” Coen says. “‘Fargo’ we started writing many, many years before we made it and then we stopped at page 70 with ‘Carl is humping the escort.’ Then the rest of that page is…

 In the world of the 2024 movie schedule, we’re still in a climate in which a solo Coen Brother will be making a cinematic return. As Ethan prepares to finally release the noir-tinged comedy Drive-Away Dolls, another crazy adventure of comedic errors is on its way. While promoting this movie, the co-writer/director has apparently teased that he’s reuniting with his brother, and it’s in order to direct an upcoming horror movie. See, folks, miracles do happen!As Montages has now reported out of the recent Tromsø…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe Coen Brothers are set to reunite to make a “very bloody” horror film.The acclaimed sibling directors last worked together on 2018’s Western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.Since then, Joel Coen has made an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth starring Denzel Washington, while Ethan Coen will soon release the comedy road movie Drive-Away Dolls, co-written with his wife…

After the success of his riveting debut, The Sleepless, author Victor Manibo has another intriguing sci-fi tale incoming: Escape Velocity, a murder mystery set in a space hotel, which sounds like an irresistible combination. io9 is thrilled to be announcing Escape Velocity—which will release April 23, 2024—with an exclusive excerpt.Chukwudi Iwuji Talks Working on Guardians of the Galaxy 3 After PeacemakerHere’s a more detailed description of the story:“A decades-old murder looms over the glamorous clientele of a high-end…

A renegade nun is tasked by an all-powerful artificial intelligence to hunt down the Holy Grail, and that’s just the first episode. Peacock’s new show Mrs. Davis, which debuts April 20, is as wild and surprising as any show you’ve seen in recent memory. So, when given a chance to talk to co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tara Hernandez about it, io9 didn’t have to be artificially intelligent to say “Yes.”Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesLindelof most of you probably know. He…

For decades, brothers Ethan and Joel Coen went together like peanut butter and chocolate in the filmmaking world, churning out movies as a duo like Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men. But that era has come to an end, as they’ve now embarked on separate professional paths. Late last year, Joel Coen delivered the Apple TV+ movie The Tragedy of Macbeth to the masses, and now Ethan Coen is lining up a great cast for his first movie without Joel’s involvement.Margaret Qualley and Geraldine…