John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD is bleak and despairing, but manages to offer a ray of hope without pulling any punches.
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Does this new trailer for THE ROAD starring Viggo Mortensen oversell the uplift? Will Weinstein mount an Oscar campaign for the film?
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Variety, Screen Daily and The Guardian take the first look at John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road starring Viggo Mortensen.
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Based on the accounts of journalist Mark Boal, Kathyrn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker takes a soldier’s eye view of the Iraq War in telling the story of an elite Army Explosive Ordinance Team.
With good reviews coming out of Venice and Toronto and appearances on a few Best Unreleased of 2008 lists, could this finally be [...]
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Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq themed The Hurt Locker
That’s what it’s been like recently for movies that have anything to do with Iraq. The question is: are audiences truly leery of movies about Iraq or are they just waiting for a good one?
According to THR’s Steven Zeitchik, the next crop of war films seems [...]
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Three better choices for your weekend than any of the new releasesÂ
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the worst week for new releases I’ve seen since I started doing the Weekend Forecast 70 some weeks ago. Do yourself a favor. Skip all of these and just go see Trouble the Water, Man on Wire or Vicky Cristina [...]
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