I always look forward to a new movie from the Coen Brothers (“Fargo,” “No Country for Old Men,” “The Big Lebowski”), but this one has me especially excited because it stars one of my favorite actors, Oscar Isaac, reuniting with [...]
I always look forward to a new movie from the Coen Brothers (“Fargo,” “No Country for Old Men,” “The Big Lebowski”), but this one has me especially excited because it stars one of my favorite actors, Oscar Isaac, reuniting with [...]
I was pleased to see Beliefnet blogger Mark Roberts write about the use of the hymn “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” in its evocative soundtrack. Ironically, according to Ethan Coen, they knew “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” from another movie, [...]
| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of western violence including disturbing images |
| Movie Release Date: | December 22, 2010 |
| DVD Release Date: | June 7, 2011 |
In a remake of the John Wayne classic that is truer to the Charles Portis book, the Coen brothers have made their most sincere film yet, a western as spare and yet majestic as its unspoiled landscapes. Like all great [...]
| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence |
| Movie Release Date: | October 9, 2009 |
Larry Gopnik (theater actor Michael Stuhlbarg) is a physics professor in 1967 Minneapolis. He covers a blackboard the size of a movie screen with equations, confidently lecturing his students about the uncertainty principle but outside the classroom unable to cope [...]
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