Because you really don’t have to see New Moon for the fourth time in less than a week, Hollywood is pulling out all the trimmings this Thanksgiving. By which we mean yet another movie about the apocalypse (The Road) and one that could potentially cause it to happen (Old Dogs). As we do every Friday, Read More
The Road
Running time 119 minutes
Written by Joe Penhall
Directed by John Hillcoat
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce
Welcome to the apocalypse. In The Road, the eagerly awaited movie version of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, the end of the world is no longer on Read More
If you’re looking for a meme to grab onto during the upcoming Oscar season, try this: in an effort to make pre-established release dates, studios are rushing their prestige films to the detriment of the product. And we thought that only happened with summer tent poles!
We first noticed a month ago when The Weinstein Read More
It looks like The Road might be getting a little crowded. According to Nikki Finke over at Deadline Hollywood (and corroborated by Dave Karger at Entertainment Weekly), Paramount has moved the Robert Downey Jr.-Jamie Foxx prestige film The Soloist out of its November 21st release date and pushed it all the way Read More
We’ve been looking forward (sorta) to seeing the no-doubt downer that will be The Road, directed by John Hillcoat and adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel, which, to be honest, we’ve always been too scared to read, as it’s one of those post-apocalyptic tales of wandering bleak landscapes. Viggo Mortensen stars, and we maintain that Read More
