Todd Field Returns to the Director’s Chair for ‘Hubris’

Todd Field

It’s been almost 5 years since actor-turned-director Todd Field’s second feature, Little Children, was released to almost universal acclaim, and now, after a couple of false starts (one of which was an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian), it looks like he finally has a project ready to go. Indie Wire has revealed that a [...]

James Franco has Two Feature-Length Directorial Projects on the Horizon?

Currently winning plaudits for his turn as ill-fated outdoor pursuits enthusiast Aron Ralston in 127 hours, James Franco moves on to yet another series of challenges. Showbiz 411 are reporting that not only is the actor in talks to direct his own adaptation of the William Faulkner classic As I Lay Dying, but he’s also [...]

New Poster for The Road

The Road Poster

If you haven’t already checked it out, head over to Jon’s review of The Road which stars Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The Road is directed by John Hillcoat and is based on the novel written by Cormac McCarthy. After Jon saw it, he rang me to tell me [...]

BFI LFF Review: The Road

The Road Poster

The Road defeated me. It crushed and destroyed me. It broke my heart in the first fifteen minutes and spent the next hour and a half trampling it through the dead and dusty ground. It is a haunting and poetic work, soulful and subtle in its tone and the dark, elegiac cadences. Director John Hillcoat [...]