Posts Tagged ‘cormac mccarthy’

Gateway Cinephiles Review: The Road

Posted: 15th June 2010 by Brian in Movies
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I recently got up the guts to watch “The Road”, John Hillcoat’s faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s horrific yet beautiful novel of the same name.  I wrote about the book some time back but instead of writing a review of the movie I thought I’d link to friend and film critic Andrew Wyatt’s apt review [...]

The Way of the Dinosaur

Posted: 12th April 2010 by Brian in Personal
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After visiting the “Dinosaurs Unearthed” exhibit at the St. Louis Science center a few weeks ago, it got me thinking about the reality of extinction and fallacy of immortality.  Dinosaurs were the dominant organism on this planet for 160 million years; compare that to humans who’ve dominated this planet for not even 1/4 of one [...]

The Road

Posted: 4th February 2010 by Brian in Reading
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I just finished Cormac McCarthy‘s The Road. Wow. I’ve never been this moved by a written work.  It’s brilliant. This isn’t a review.  This isn’t a critique.  I’m not a critic; I’m just compelled to write about how it made me feel. I just finished it last night.  I started it two days ago.  It’s [...]