• This Week In Trailers: We Were Here, Sidewalls, The Road, Keep Our Secrets, Elevate, The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…

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  • This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Road, True Blood (Season 2), Mystery Team, And More

    This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. THE ROAD The apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic subgenre has been worn out. Between recent outings such as The Book of Eli, 2012, Daybreakers, Doomsday, and…

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  • Stephen King's Top 10 Films Of 2009

    Author Stephen King has published his annual listing of the top 10 films of the year. This year King agreed with the mainstream critics in naming The Hurt Locker as the best film of the year, but the rest of his list is the opposite of conventional. His list for 2009 is bound to spawn…

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  • The Road Trailer #2

    Dimension and the Weinstein brothers will finally open John Hillcoat's filmed version of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road on November 25. We've seen one trailer already, but that one was out back in May. Now there's a new trailer just one month before the film opens. Check it out after the break. This trailer is…

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  • The Road Pushed Back To Thanksgiving

    Just recieved word from my local San Francisco reps that Dimension Films will be pushing back the release date of The Road, yet again, this time for a Thanksgiving release - November 25th 2009. This really doesn't make any sense at all, as the Thanksgiving slot is not only overcrowded as is, but also features…

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  • Telluride Video Blog: Waking Sleeping Beauty And The Road

    It has been a lot busier here at Telluride this year than I've expected, which has prevented me from finding enough time to write about some of the film's I've screened. I've been trying to keep the video blog reactions coming, as they are much easier to record in the 20-30 minute gap between films.…

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  • See Twelve Minutes Of Clips From The Road

    John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen and Codi Smit-McPhee, is finally starting to be seen. The picture screened for some press in New York City earlier this week, and is now getting decidedly mixed critical notes out of the Venice Film Festival. Now five clips from the film are…

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  • The Road's Kodi Smit-McPhee May Let The Right One In

    Moviehole reports than in a pull-out section of the Melbourne, Australia paper The Herald-Sun young actor Kodi Smit-McPhee (seen alongside Eric Bana in Romulus, My Father and co-star of The Road) mentioned that he was up for one of the two lead roles in the American remake of Let the Right One In. Moviehole doesn't…

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  • The Road Movie Trailer

    Dimension Films has finally released a movie trailer for John Hillcoat's feature film adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. Earlier this week Esquire Magazine published a review of the film, calling it "The Most Important Film of The Year." The film tells the story of a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi…

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  • Early Buzz: Esquire Calls The Road "The Most Important Movie Of The Year"

    Esquire Magazine's Tom Chiarella has posted the first review of John Hillcoat's feature film adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, and calls it "The most important movie of the year." Here are a couple excerpts: "The Road is no tease. It is a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically…

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  • The Road Will Finally Be Released On October 16th 2009

    Dimension Films and 2929 Productions have finally announced that they will be releasing John Hillcoat's adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel The Road, on October 16th 2009. The film was originally set to debut during the 2008 Oscar season, but was supposedly pulled due to visual effects issues. Many speculated that the Weinsteins were starting…

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  • Concept Art: Style Frames From The Road

    Who knows if and when we'll ever finally get to see the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road (IMDB currently lists an October 2009 release date), but to hold you over until then, check out the Stlye Frames that Production designer Chris Kennedy created for the film which were posted on Flickr by Hugh…

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  • First Look: The Road

    Dimension Films has released new production photos for John Hillcoat's upcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road in USA Today. Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and 12-year-old Kodi Smit McPhee star in the the story of a man (Mortensen) and his…

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