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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: No Country for Old Men / True Grit
Description: [School of Movies 2023]
The final main feed instalment of our Coen Brothers series goes out with a double-bang of exceptionally gripping Westerns.
No Country for Old Men (2007, written by the recently departed Cormac McCarthy) is a tense game of cat and mouse. Josh Brolin discovers a drug deal gone very wrong and walks off with the money, and Javier Bardem plays the dead-eyed Terminator slowly but surely closing in on him. This whole case is followed by Sheriff Tommy Lee Jones who is scratching at his head to fathom the trail of violence he is...