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...fact that the movie was originally slated for release last autumn and bounced around this fall's schedule before landing in Thanksgiving week suggests that the questions stumped the marketing professionals as well. But if Hillcoat--best known for his Australian outlaw tale The Proposition--and screenwriter Joe Penhall felt any pressure to temper the novel's agonies, they shrugged it off. Their Road is respectful of McCarthy's glumness, and they have made no effort to soften the despair...
Cassandra's parents are loving and good at baking, gardening, repairing stuff and other skills that Cassandra and I pay people for. But they're a little too country; they think window screens are for stuck-up people, and not once since I've known them have they been able to use their cell phones. Besides, they live in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. - a town so small, there weren't enough people to stop someone from naming it Hoosick Falls. Cassandra's brother Brian is very into video games and anime and is definitely going to be our choice for guardian...
...begins with his toes, which instantly become numb. By this means, he imagines that he is bringing about his own death, piecemeal--seizing control of it and turning it into a volitional act, even an enjoyable one. "The process of dying by auto-dissolution affords the greatest ecstasy known to man," he tells us. The subtitle of The Original of Laura is Dying...
...down the street. I could understand." By Waddell's reckoning, he attended more than 64 memorial services for his friends and comrades in arms. "Finally," says Waddell, "I raised my hand and said I needed help." The doctors' diagnosis: Waddell was suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - known in previous conflicts as combat fatigue...
...employs a similar effect; following a span of wandering, father and son come upon a disconcertingly civilized-looking house, which they are drawn to investigate. Readers of the book know exactly what's coming, which only makes it worse. Another memorable scene features Michael K. Williams, best known as Omar from “The Wire.” With all of five minutes of screen time, Williams blows the rest of the cast away as a pathetic thief who makes off with father and son’s belongings and pays a devastating price...