Posts Tagged ‘Joel and Ethan Coen’

A SERIOUS MAN Review

Posted: October 15th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

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Combined with “No Country for Old Men” and “Burn After Reading”, The Coen Brothers’ latest movie, “A Serious Man” could complete an unofficial “Existentialist Trilogy”.  “No Country” says that the world is an uncertain and unforgiving place.  “Burn After Reading” says the same thing but the idea is played for laughs instead of drama.  “A Serious Man” takes a different approach and wonders if uncertainty is so bad when certainty can be far worse.  Furthermore, what good is reason if the world is an irrational place?

PREDATOR 2, FARGO and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Blu-ray Reviews

Posted: June 27th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

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On one hand it’s great Fox has been releasing their catalog titles in 1080p and in DTS looking great. On the other hand, they haven’t put in that much work to jazz it up for audiences buying it a second time. None of the films here have anything new, but all look appreciably better in their Blu-ray iterations. After the jump are my reviews of “Predator 2″, “Fargo” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on Blu-ray.

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