I finally got to see John Hillcoat and Joe Penhall’s film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road this weekend, and I was not disappointed. McCarthy’s bleak post-apocalyptic father-and-son story is one of my favorite books. The film is extremely faithful, though sadly it leaves out the baby-eating, one of the most memorable scenes from the [...]
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December 4th, 2008
[Note: I wrote this way back when these two movies were both in theaters, and it's been sitting in draft mode since then. I don't have much more to add, so I'm just going to publish it as-is. Enjoy!] I am hereby requesting a voluntary moratorium on super hero movies themed around the duality [...] December 1st, 2008
Caught the Stella show at the Keswick in Glenside last night. They are greatly underappreciated, as the woeful attendance would attest – though the wisdom of an act whose main audience is college kids booking a show at 8 pm the Sunday after Thanksgiving is questionable. Stella is hard to explain. Their material runs from [...] August 4th, 2008
The new album from David Byrne and Brian Eno will be titled Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. To promote its release, Dave and Brian have made the first track, “Strange Overtones,” available for free on the web. The song is jazzier than I expected, with a haunting and somewhat trip-hop inspired vocal. [...] July 31st, 2008
Word is that Sony may greenlight a Venom feature film as a spin-off of Spider Man 3. Reportedly not confident in Topher Grace’s ability to carry a summer popcorn movie, Sony will likely recast another actor as Eddie Brock/Venom. I think recasting is a good idea. Grace was clearly cast in Spider Man 3 because Sam [...] |
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