True Grit would seem to offer all the ingredients of a classic Cohen Brothers film experience, both for the auteurs and their audience. It's a period piece. There are characters who speak with a grandiloquence quite foreign to our verbally-starved, texting present. There is a genre with which to toy, interesting mayhem to depict. And there's a guy who rides around under a bear skin, the animal's former head flopped over his own, his halting speech reminiscent of a cartoon character. He's called Bear Man. So, are these just the wiseacre Cohens of yesteryear? Not quite. If you've seen the t.v commercial advertising True Grit - the one featuring Johnny Cash in full brimstone mode, singing "God's Gonna Shoot You Down" - you might get the idea that this version of the film is quite a manly, ass-kicking affair, full of gunplay and reckoning. Of course, that's the idea. ...