How good are those Coen Brothers?
Well, bloody good, and I mean bloody. After what seemed a mid-career crisis when they were buying red sports cars and making films like Intolerable Cruelty (2003) and The LadyKillers (2004), the Brothers are not just back but taking their unquestioned brilliance to new levels. Proving to be the curent day masters of the black comedy, they came to prominence in 1987 with their second film, Raising Arizona, and then produced a string of hits in the 1990s with Miller’s Crossing (1990), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), the unforgettable Fargo (1996) and cult hits The Big Lebowski (1998) and O Brother Where Art Thou (2000). But the pinnacle of their career came with their return-to-form vehicle — and Best Picture Oscar winner – No Country For Old Men (2007), a fierce, forboding film memorable for Javier Bordem’s cold and calculating killer, and their follow-up offering Burn After Reading (2008). The Brothers are said to have wrote the screenplays for both movies at the same time, alternating ea
