Tag: Cormac McCarthy
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Mob Land review – kindly sheriff John Travolta drawn into blood-soaked plot
Very much indebted to No Country for Old Men, punchy thriller brings damnation to smalltown LouisianaFeature first-timer Nicholas Maggio makes an impression with this punchy crime thriller set in smalltown Louisiana. The director himself has cited Tarantino as an influence – though the borrowing is much more obviously from the Coens’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s…
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The Cormac McCarthy Adaptation That Was Completely Butchered
The recently passed Cormac McCarthy is known to most movie fans for No Country for Old Men. His novel became the film many would call the Coen Brothers’s finest work and won them the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, and Picture. Sadly, this is the exception when it comes to McCarthy’s adaptations. Unlike…
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The Best Cormac McCarthy Villain Hasn’t Been Brought to the Screen Yet
Fans of great literature and movies alike were mourning this past Tuesday with the passing of one of America’s great authors, Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy was perhaps most well known for his breakout novel All the Pretty Horses and the Coen Brothers’ helmed movie adaptation of his neo Western No Country for Old Men (2007). McCarthy…
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Masterpieces and oddities: Cormac McCarthy’s bleak, bold and batty films
From the exemplary adaptation of No Country for Old Men to the offbeat screenplay for The Counselor, McCarthy’s sparse style lent itself to cinemaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe late and great Cormac McCarthy’s most famous novel is probably The Road, a hauntingly well-written and shattering story of a father and son trekking across…