Coens next

Well, after NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN went ahead and got itself some insanely good reviews and almost certainly an Oscar for Javier Bardem, it looks like the Coen brothers are going to head back to the West, as they make a full throttle Spaghetti Western. Since, you know, stick to what works. And apparently this thing will be graphic, “we’ve written a western with a lot of violence in it. There’s scalping and hanging … it’s good. Indians torturing people with ants, cutting their eyelids off… It’s a proper western, a real western, set in the 1870s. It’s got a scene that no one will ever forget because of one particular chicken,” they warned. I get way too excited, way too quickly, so after a pretty remarkable slump, I choose to believe that the Coens are back. And when your next film stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt (BURN AFTER READING), well then I just have to assume it’s going to be great too, especially since my memory flat out refuses to acknowledge OCEAN’S TWELVE. As such, with my Sherlock Holmesian logic, I deduce that this film will be awesome.