Tag: The Road
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‘The End We Start From’ Review — Jodie Comer Is Sensational
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.The apocalypse is kind of boring. It wasn’t always that way as films like The Road, 28 Days Later, and Mad Max: Fury Road have been able…
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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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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…
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School’s Out Forever review – gloriously gory adaptation of YA sci-fi horror
Lord of the Rings meets The Road in this ruthless, thrilling romp about posh boarding school kids fighting a deadly virusAdapted from a trilogy of young adult books by Scott K Andrews, that forms part of the “shared world” Afterblight Chronicles series, this gory British boys’ school-set sci-fi posits a deadly virus that swiftly kills…
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‘Corpus Christi’ Director Jan Komasa to Helm Drama ‘Anniversary’ (Exclusive)
Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa, who scored a best international Oscar nomination earlier this year for “Corpus Christi,” will direct “Anniversary,” a drama of social apocalypse.“Anniversary” will be produced by Nick Wechsler and Chockstone Pictures partners Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz. Wechsler and the Schwartzes are no strangers to dark and edgy projects — they…
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Social Distance: 21 Films About Isolation
The tradition of isolation in cinema, either psychological, physical, or both, is rich and also, a rather modern phenomenon (you don’t see a lot of 1930s movies about people contemplating their existence in a tomb). But isolation in the age of pandemics and social distancing has taken on a new resonance and probably created a…
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Josefina Molina to Receive Spain’s 2019 National Cinematography Prize
The Spanish Film Institute (Icaa) has honored filmmaker, screenwriter and theater director Josefina Molina with this year’s National Cinematography Prize.A pioneering female director who began her career in the largely male-dominated world of Spanish cinema in the 1960s, Molina has directed such works as 1973’s “Vera, un cuento cruel”, the 1978 TV series “El Camino”…
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‘Witchfinder General’ Remake Coming From John Hillcoat and Nicolas Winding Refn
John Hillcoat, director of dark, disturbing movies like The Proposition and The Road, is teaming with master of neon-sleaze Nicolas Winding Refn for a Witchfinder General remake. Based on the 1968 Vincent Price movie of the same name, Witchfinder General is a historical horror film about real-life figure Matthew Hopkins, and the terrible, torturous deeds…
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‘Green Book’: Viggo Mortensen Talks Peter Farrelly’s Dramatic Chops, ‘Lord Of The Rings’ & More
“Green Book” marks Viggo Mortensen‘s 50th silver screen credit to be released. The diligent actor is constantly looking for the unknown, that project that will challenge him, mentally and emotionally. Since retiring his crown as Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, he’s had a chance to do just that: branch out. “Eastern Promises,”…
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‘Bird Box’ Review: Netflix’s Sandra Bullock Thriller Is So Intense You’ll Want to Cover Your Eyes — AFI Fest
If ever you find yourself trying to survive the end of the world, don’t look to Malorie (Sandra Bullock) for an inspiring pep talk. “Bird Box” begins with her telling two small children to do exactly as she says if they want to survive, with the most important lesson being to never remove their blindfolds…