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Why are so many dramas and thrillers now set in the past? Is it because, in a world of mobile phones, satnav and Google, suspense is impossible? Joe Queenan reports. A CRITIC I usually admire completely missed the boat recently when he said he could think of no reason why the Coen brothers' latest film No Country for Old Men was set in the late 1970s.
No Country for Old Men. THE_Coen brothers, after a dull-ish period, have come storming back with a brilliant adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 80s-set Western thriller.
