The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The key ingredients of the best Coen brothers films

This isn’t a review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. For reasons that shall be revealed in this episode of Argue the Toss, Drew & Chella are looking at the best Coen brothers films, in an impromptu retrospective.

Everyone who knows Coen brothers films knows what you mean when you say, “it’s a bit Coen brothers”. But what makes a Coen brothers film a Coen brothers film? That’s the question the ATTeam attempt to answer in this episode.

Is it just a film with George Clooney being a bit wacky or does there have to be a regional American accent involved and used for comic affect? Or is it just a film where everybody dies? All these questions and more are about to be answered. You can thank us in the comments.

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Chella Ramanan
Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.