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Hail, Caesar!, the Coen brothers’ madcap musical tribute to one day in the life of “fixer” Eddie Mannix in the last…
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After going somber and subtle with the folk-music folktale Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen are making a big…
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