Friday 15 May 2009

Film preview: The Road....coming this Winter...

The summer blockbuster season is well and truly kicking in now with the new 'Star Trek' cutting a swathe through the Box office, X Men Origins: Wolverine doing well despite negative Press (and it's actually damned good, trust Stuff....review coming soon) and the follow-up to 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Angels And Demons' out this weekend. There's still a new Harry Potter, the rebooted Terminator (review of the new Blu-Ray of the underrated Terminator 3 coming soon too!), 'Night at the Museum 2' and plenty more still to come.

But I'm waiting patiently, twiddling my end-of-the-world thumbs, for 'The Road'. Based on Cormac ('No Country For Old Men') McCarthy's brilliant, gloomy-yet-inspiring post-apocalypse novel (and you know I can't resist a post-apocalypse!), the movie version, starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize "my mother couldn't spell Charlie" Theron, was due out last winter but was pushed back to winter 2010. The official trailer's now been released and whilst concessions have obviously been made for the Multiplex generation, it looks as if the spirit and style of the book has been recreated with some gusto. So when the wizards and the cyborgs have come and gone, this is the one I'll be waiting in line for. Here's that trailer in full...

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