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When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moved from November 21 of this year to summer of next year we knew that it would change the face of the fall release schedule. But I’m not sure anyone knew the ripple effects Harry Potter would leave in his wake. Almost the entire fall schedule has now been rearranged.

Agentorange over at Quiet Earth has seen an entire 123 page version of the screenplay for The Road starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. His review has given me even more reason to be utterly thrilled to see this movie.

So, one of the first “real” books I read as a teenager was “The Stand” by Stephen King. The idea of a de-populated America where good and evil clashed was an amazing world that was both repulsive and alluring simultaneously. Having grown up in ...

Well, I’m back. I did not pay close attention to the news (religious or otherwise) during my two weeks off, other than the Olympics. Who knew that beach volleyball could be so entertaining? Or that synchronized diving is a sport? Or that batons are so hard to grab? Were female gymnasts always so tiny? I did read a lot during my vacation.

We’ve reached that part of the summer when Rainn Wilson comedies and films by Fred Durst are considered top new releases, so it must be time to look ahead to the fall. Traditionally this is the movie season for Oscar contenders and challenging indie fare, so let’s put away the robots and superhero tights and play a little 3 Up, 3 Down.

The Los Angeles Times is that latest outlet to have a feature article on The Road, the feature film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post apocalyptic novel and before I get to that I would like to address a paragraph within the article that still has me a bit baffled: "No Country's" Academy Award-winning

"The Road" to nowhere. Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 1:40 PM The complete Toronto line-up has finally been unveiled -- Eugene Hernandez at indieWIRE has the long list of 312 films from 64 countries, 249 of those features.

A bunch of new photos from "The Road" hit the web last week so we thought this was as good a time as any to talk about the film since we just finished the book penned by Cormac McCarthy ("No Country For Old Men," "All The Pretty Horses") and the script adapted by Joe Penhall.

Even though there are a stack of library books that are due tomorrow, and The Recognitions slunk back into the stacks, it seemed like the perfect afternoon to tackle The Road. It turned out to be freakishly easy to read, the kind of book one can breeze through in an afternoon.

Well, really it’s the post-apocalyptic period that’s interesting. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is being made into a movie starring Viggo Mortenson. Perfect.