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6 September 2008 11:20 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Or such smart guys, Joel and Ethan Coen sure know idiots. The brotherly team - which writes, directs, produces, edits and does everything short of catering their movies - has made a string of films, going back to 1984's "Blood Simple," that usually feature people so dim, they would have lost on the rigged quiz shows of the 1950s.

Remember Nicolas Cage's H.I. McDunnogh in "Raising Arizona" who held up a liquor store for diapers? Or Jeff Bridges' pot-addled Dude (see related story

By REED TUCKER

5 September 2008 3:40 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Nicolas Cage gave legitimately great performances in Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Leaving Las Vegas, Bringing Out The Dead, Red Rock West, Matchstick Men, and Adaptation. His hambone tendencies, meanwhile, have flourished in great bad performances in Con Air, the National Treasure movies, Zandalee, Sonny, and The Wicker Man. Then there are Cage performances that are so giddily, gloriously over the top that they muddy the line separating great from awesomely bad, like Face/Off, Wild At Heart, and Vampire's Kiss. Alas, Cage gives a depressingly awful performance in Bangkok Dangerous, the Pang brothers' Doa remake of their 1999 Thai cult thriller. Burdened with a permanent scowl and dead eyes, Cage never seems to be having any fun. His joylessness proves infectious. The Pangs' wildly melodramatic tale of a deaf assassin who finds love and meaning when he falls for a pretty pharmacist has been pointlessly transformed into the marginally less outlandish...

Nathan Rabin

26 August 2008 10:32 PM, PDT | From The Entertainment Zone | See recent The Entertainment Zone news

"Burn After Reading", the latest gem from the genius Coen brothers', will highlight Day 1 at the Venice Film Festival, which opens Wednesday. Joel and Ethan Coen's "Burn After Reading" (their follow-up to Oscar winner "No Country for Old Men") will open the 65th edition of the event with a screening that will follow the festival's traditional gala opening ceremony. Stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton are all expected to be on hand to lend starpower to the Lido's well-worn red carpet. I can't imagine a better way to open Any event than with a new Coen brothers film!! I have such high hopes for "Burn After Reading", especially with the success of so many of their past films! The Oscar winner "No Country for Old Men", "The Ladykillers", "Bad Santa", "O Brother Where Art Thou?", "The Big Lebowski", "Fargo", "The Hudsucker Proxy" and of course

Laura Alber

3 articles from 2008