The abundance of non-sequiturs and throwaway scenes in Hail, Caesar! is not unusual as these are the trademark characteristics of the Coen brothers’ work. As A.O. Scott put it, a Coen brothers movie ...

Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?” His compatriots in Rome’s square inhale the orator’s dilemma and exhale consensus: better to ...

Eddie Mannix is the head of production at Capitol Pictures. Sitting in a dark, formless theater, notepad in hand, Mannix scrutinizes an upcoming film by musing over a couple unfinished scenes. In the ...

Ralph Fiennes' Laurence Laurentz joins the storied ranks of Coens characters with pleasantly alliterative names. Think Amy Archer, Bernie Bernbaum, Rex Rexroth, Delmar O'Donnell and Gaear Grimsrud.

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Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...