“Hail, Caesar!” — Joel and Ethan Coen’s screwball comedy about the movie business, opening Friday — revolves around a deadly serious man. His name is Eddie Mannix, and his job is to make Hollywood ...

Like many, I was more than a little excited about the opening of the new Coen Brothers film, Hail, Caesar!, about a day in the life of a 1950s Hollywood studio executive. As the editor of a new book ...

The latest film by the Coen Brothers, Hail, Caesar!, nostalgically and satirically portrays the Hollywood of the studio-centered 40s-50s era. I think it’s quite entertaining, working both for those ...

A kidnapping is at the center of some of the Coen Brothers’ most indelible pictures. From RAISING ARIZONA to FARGO to THE BIG LEBOWSKI, someone goes missing and it’s through this unfortunate victim’s ...

If one word could define the vast work of the Coen Brothers, it would probably be anticlimactic. Since their first film, 1984’s “Blood Simple,” Joel and Ethan Coen have a long, proud history of ...

The Coen brothers' newest film, Hail, Caesar!, looks like a larger-than-life portrayal of old Hollywood, when stars were synonymous with studios and epic productions were all the rage. Co-writers and ...

We don’t tend to think of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen as quintessential Los Angeles filmmakers in the same way we might directors such as Paul Thomas Anderson or John Singleton, who are well known for ...