Joel Coen

Create-A-Caption: The Big Lebowski

This week’s Create-A-Caption focuses on 1998’s The Big Lebowski, a comedy about kidnapping, nihilism, the Gulf War, and bowling, courtesy of Joel and Ethan Coen. Jeff Bridges plays Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, a middle-aged slacker whose gutterball existence is disturbed…

Create-A-Caption: The Big Lebowski

11.21.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Cult Films, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, Joel Coen, John Goodman, The Big Lebowski, The Coen Brothers | 1 comment

For this week’s Create-A-Caption, we are having some fun with the 1998 cult comedy The Big Lebowski. This Coen Brothers favorite stars Jeff Bridges as Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, a middle-aged slacker whose gutterball existence is disturbed when crooks mistake…

Turn to the Left!: “Raising Arizona” Turns 30 This Year

01.12.17 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Ethan Coen, Holly Hunter, Joel Coen, Nicolas Cage, Raising Arizona, The Coen Brothers | no comments

Still one of the weirdest, most wonderful comedies of the 1980s, Raising Arizona is a riotous comedy caper from Joel and Ethan Coen about an infertile couple (ex-con Nicolas Cage and policewoman Holly Hunter) who desperately want children, and figure…