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The Book of Eli – Movie Review

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 8:38 pm / Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Denzel Washington’s latest film The Book of Eli provides me with yet another opportunity to use the phrase “post-apocalyptic”. (It seems like recently I’ve used it so frequently I’d be well served to give the phrase its own shortcut key.) It’s been thirty years since “the flash”, presumably a nuclear war of some kind though […]

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Posted: November 24, 2009 at 11:59 pm / Local, Movie Reviews

John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post apocalyptic The Road is executed extremely well, but the lack of great ability in one of the films leads holds it back from being truly magnificent. Viggo Mortensen is not the lead in question and turns in another marvelous performance to add to his resume of superb work […]

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2009: What to Look Forward To Part 3

Posted: July 21, 2009 at 12:40 pm / Film, Local

Part 1 Part 2 Alright, let’s continue to look at some of the films that are coming out later this year! Shutter Island – October 2nd Here we have Martin Scoresse’s followup to his Oscar winning tale The Departed. This time he is going in with an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel Shutter Island. […]

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09 The Year So Far

Posted: June 29, 2009 at 5:49 am / Featured, Local, Opinion

A look at the best of the first half of the calendar year

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“The Road” HD Trailer | Viggo Mortensen, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall

Posted: May 14, 2009 at 2:13 pm / Local, Movie Trailers

Based on Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Road” is the epic post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son across a barren landscape that was blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and most life on earth. “The Road” is directed by John Hillcoat, […]

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