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Directing duo Joel and Ethan Coen's modern classic No Country for Old Men is finding a new streaming home. The 2007 film has continued to be an influential entry in the thriller and western genres, telling an intense and dark story that explored poignant themes about fate, chance, and the seeming loss of morality in the modern-day frontier. Featuring a stellar cast with the likes of Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, and Woody Harrelson, No Country for Old Men is a truly riveting picture, and while it is currently available to stream on FuboTV and MGM+, the film will have a new streaming home starting next month.

No Country for Old Men will be available to stream on Peacock starting on Apr. 1, as it joins a vast catalog of other critically acclaimed films. On its initial release, the film was distributed by Miramax Films in the United States...

Oscar-winning actors, Hollywood royalty, film auteurs – everyone wants a piece of that signature Taylor Sheridan action that will turn them into an instant classic. The part-cowboy, part-filmmaker identity of Sheridan is so deeply rooted in his pop culture reputation that he embeds the lost art of Westerns into every project that he spearheads.

Taylor Sheridan as Travis in Yellowstone [Credit: Paramount+]

However, while most reputed actors and directors in the field get stale beyond a certain limit if they keep working in a single genre, Sheridan only gets better with time. His initial frontier trilogy – Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River – was nothing short of extraordinary, and his work in television is the same.

Taylor Sheridan: The most wanted man in Hollywood Hell or High Water feat. Chris Pine and Ben Foster [Credit: Lionsgate Films]

Storytelling comes easily to Taylor Sheridan. The actor-turned-scriptwriter credits his 20+ years as a struggling artist...

Ridley Scott is a visionary director known for his striking and meticulously crafted films across numerous genres. While he’s widely recognized for sci-fi spectacles like Alien and Blade Runner, and historical epics like Gladiator, he's had a notable action-packed dip into cinematic crime. Scott's crime dramas often focus on tense power struggles, moral dilemmas, and the high-stakes world of illegal enterprises. His 2007 film American Gangster was nominated for two Oscars for its gripping biographical drama of Frank Lucas, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.

The award-winning director also helmed The Counselor, a neo-noir crime thriller written by Cormac McCarthy, which explored the consequences of greed in the Mexican drug trade. Black Rain brought Scott’s stylish visuals to a Yakuza crime story set in Japan, while Body of Lies followed high-octane espionage in the Middle East with a tense, politically charged thriller. Across these stories, Ridley Scott’s movies...

Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka is now showing on Mubi in many countries.Eureka.A three-part film spanning starkly different locales, eras, and genres, Eureka (2023) stands as Lisandro Alonso’s most ambitious feature to date. It is also quite possibly the director’s most dreamlike—nothing short of remarkable considering its predecessor Jauja (2014). In that spellbinding period piece, a Danish colonial officer (Viggo Mortensen) travels across nineteenth-century Patagonia in search of his missing daughter. Late into the quest, a strange encounter with a wizened Danish-speaking woman suggests the soldier had traveled through time as well as space; a present-day coda makes the film’s timeline and logic even more disorienting.Eureka features a handful of similar twists. Written by Alonso together with poet Fabián Casas and Martín Caamaño, it begins as a black-and-white western starring Chiara Mastroianni as an infallible gunslinger and Viggo Mortensen as a father searching for his abducted daughter (again). But that preamble,...

Fallout 3 stands as one of the most special titles crafted by Bethesda Game Studios. It was the first entry in the franchise that Todd Howard and his team developed after the studio obtained the rights to the post-apocalyptic franchise from Interplay Entertainment.

Todd Howard is the man leading the Bethesda Game Studios. (Image via Microsoft)

Even though Fallout 3 wasn’t flawless by any standards, it was a smash hit. Since its release, gamers have always wondered what exactly inspired Howard to craft such a title. You’ll be shocked to know that it was none other than the critically acclaimed ‘The Road‘ that steered the ship for Bethesda.

The iconic book that inspired Todd Howard’s Fallout 3 Fallout 3 packed quite an emotional punch. (Image via Microsoft)

A few years ago, Arthur Protasio got the opportunity to sit down with Fallout 3‘s lead designer and writer, Emil Pagliarulo. The Bethesda developer...

Even if you don’t do a whole lot of reading, there’s a good chance you’ve at least heard of Blood Meridian. It’s the most well-known Cormac McCarthy novel that’s yet to have a movie adaptation, partly because it’s especially harrowing, violent, grim, nightmarish, and abstract. There have been attempts at making a movie, but as of 2025 (the year the book itself turns 40), nothing’s come to fruition.

Spoiler Alert: This article contains major spoilers from “The Man Who Kept The Secrets,” the Season 1 finale of “Paradise,” now streaming on Hulu.

The first season of “Paradise” officially came to an end on March 4, with the killer being revealed as none other than… Trent.

You may be asking who Trent is. That’s because his name was mentioned very little in the first season of the show, but he was best known as the librarian. In Episode 7, specifically, Trent (Ian Merrigan) had a conversation with Cal (James Marsden), telling him where he could go to make a mixtape.

It was revealed during the finale that before the world as they knew it ended, Trent worked as the project manager helping to build the bunker. After alerting Anders (Erik Svedberg-Zelman), the architect building Paradise, that there was iron arsenic sulfide — a deathly mineral — on the work site, he was fired from his job.

What's so great about Westerns? Well, for starters, the genre's approach toward morality might seem clear-cut at a glance, but the best Westerns languish in morally grey landscapes and constantly redefine codes of honor. Violence is often at the heart of these stories because, without this component, we would be painting a sanitized and inauthentic picture of a society on the cusp of change. This violence can manifest in different forms and reflect bitter truths about human history, or it can simply highlight universal human traumas from a specific point of view. Moreover, lawless spaces demand lawless men who are in tune with the West and its ethos, and sometimes, these men undergo a transformation. The rich history of Westerns extends beyond the moving image, with writers like Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx having reshaped the definitions of how Westerns can reveal the worst impulses in humanity.

Deciding which Westerns...

A female CIA operative leads a dangerous undercover mission. A just-out-of-jail gangster relocates to the sticks. An oil company fixer deals with cartels, corporate intrigue and his chaotic ex-wife. A real-life cowboy, said to be the inspiration for The Lone Ranger, has his life more fully dramatized. And a man leading a private prison struggles to maintain order.

What all of these shows have in common – besides being massive hits for streaming service Paramount+ — is the involvement of one man: Taylor Sheridan. While TV remains an unpredictable business, Sheridan has become as close as a talent can get to representing a sure thing, launching one success after another. Sheridan often creates, executive produces and writes most of the episodes of every season. If his shows are cattle, he’s the lone cowboy.

And this is a rodeo people love to watch. During its most popular week, “Landman” was the second-most-watched title across streaming,...

Have sci-fi filmmakers stopped trying to imagine a hopeful future? A look at why grim dystopias may have taken hold in storytelling:

You may have heard a variation on a common complaint: “It’s the 21st century. We should be flying around with jet packs and eating food in pill form.”

It’s a sentiment – itself probably dying out now we’re 25 years into the 21st century – that says a lot about our collective, unrealised dreams of the future. Decades ago, science fiction writers, futurists and scientists once had utopian visions of what the 21st century might look like. In Things To Come (1936), which William Cameron Menzies directed from a story by Hg Wells, humanity survived the wars and pandemics of the 20th century and rebuilt itself into a glorious, Rome-inspired superstate in the new millennium, its sights set on conquering other planets.

Following the Second World War, a generation...

Tumbleweeds dance across desert sands. The night is cold, colder by the hour. The lizards have dug into the sand. Roadrunners have found their brushes to sleep in. Danger lurks in the air, hiding in the open darkness.

A congress of bandits celebrates their latest thefts. They joke about the lives taken by their bullets. These godless, immoral thieves of the night eat well as they stoke the scullery fire. A presence not of this world approaches, they do not know him. They have heard the legends.

See him. Leather and chains and a skull on fire. His motorcycle’s hum dies down. The light from his head. The smell of sulfur. They fear not their fellow man, but they fear the Spirit of Vengeance.

They scramble, each man and woman fleeing. All that expanse of land and nowhere to go. They do not get far. He brandishes a chain...

The late author Cormac McCarthy was one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American condition. His novels, often filled with harsh violence and bleak outcomes, left a scorched path of uncompromising works that detailed the depths of humanity and the moral compromises taken to get there. McCarthy's books have been revered for their dense, often philosophical prose and unflinching content. That style bled from his novels into the cinema, as several of McCarthy's most searing works were adapted into films.

Titan Comics Unleashes Kraken From Creators Shannon Eric Denton And David Hartman!: "Writer & Monster Forge founder Shannon Eric Denton, and artist David Hartman team up for an electrifying new adventure in Kraken, a brand-new original graphic novel which publishes in September 2025, from Titan Comics.

Set in alternate 1930s filled with dark magic, ancient horrors, and occult powers, Kraken will captivate fans of historical and supernatural thrillers. The graphic novel has been praised by high-profile talents including Rob Zombie who calls Kraken “an insane ripping yarn”, and acclaimed creator Phil Hester (Green Arrow) who says Kraken “packs action, romance, high adventure, horror, and just straight up weirdness into every moment.”.

After disappearing for three years, esteemed adventurer Kraken returns to reality in search of allies to stop an evil sorceress from unleashing a horde of eldritch monsters on the world. Armed with a pistol and supernatural tentacles, the Kraken is loose!

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Westerns have been enjoying something of a return to form in recent years. Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone helped to usher in a new era of on-screen Westerns, but No Country for Old Men (2007), 3:10 To Yuma (2007), Django Unchained (2012), The Hateful Eight (2015), and countless other 2000s Westerns helped to keep the genre alive. Today, Landman, American Primieval, Longmire, Hell on Wheels, and other Westerns have thrived on the small screen. Just as fantasy and drama have moved away from theaters, television has quickly claimed a Hollywood genre staple.

Still, the Western is not necessarily dead in theaters. The genre continues to see new releases to this day. Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is expecting to see a theatrical adaptation, Ari Aster is hard at work on Eddington,...

In 2007, the Coen brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men instantly set a new benchmark for the neo-Western genre. Exploring a deadly game of cat and mouse between an assassin and a Texas hunter over a bag of cash, the movie delivered suspense, tension, and drama better than most. The years since have seen something of a revival of the neo-Western genre, from gritty thrillers and action movies to superhero films.

Neo-Western movies take popular tropes and plot devices of old-school Western movies and adapt them to more modern settings, typically with a grittier tone than classic tales of the Old West. Sending characters on epic journeys and pitting them against ruthless villains, few periods are as transferable to the present day as the West. Thanks to TV shows like The Mandalorian and Yellowstone, the genre has never been more popular, and in recent years have...

If there's one video game franchise that has continuously defied expectations, it's Red Dead Redemption. The open-world Western was the first of its kind, and introduced audiences to characters who we have come to know and love. But did you know that there's actually a Red Dead short film out there? In 2010, Rockstar Games partnered with director John Hillcoat to craft a 30-minute short film titled Red Dead Redemption: The Man from Blackwater, and it's really neat how the whole thing is put together. Best known as the guy who masterfully directed an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Hillcoat was the right man for the job.

When David Fincher directed “Se7en” in 1995, his reputation was strangely bifurcated. On the one hand, he was a supremely successful commercial and music video director at the top of his field, having helmed innovative and influential shorts for icons including Madonna, Sting, and Rick Springfield. On the other, his one attempt at feature filmmaking, “Alien 3,” had been a bust — a critical disappointment liked by virtually no one, including Fincher himself. Although it has since developed a bit of a cult following, Fincher disowned “Alien 3” and famously said that he’d rather die of colon cancer than direct another movie.

Luckily for him, and for us, Fincher changed his mind when he came across Andrew Kevin Walker’s script for “Se7en,” a perfectly calibrated blend of intellectual philosophizing and pulpy exploitation that ended up beautifully served by Fincher’s unerring ability to push the psychic trauma the story inflicted...

Cormac McCarthy, who passed away last year, was a giant of American letters. His career spanned six decades, during which he penned a range of novels, plays, and film scripts. He was famous for his distinctive style, frequently violent subject matter, and uncompromising exploration of human nature. His work often delves into themes of survival and existential despair, set against vividly depicted landscapes of the American South and Southwest.

Cormac McCarthy’s stories have been translated to the screen with success multiple times, but even titans sometimes fall. McCarthy’s play, The Sunset Limited, was adapted into a movie in 2011 by Tommy Lee Jones (who had already enjoyed success with the acclaimed adaptation of McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men) and co-starred Samuel L. Jackson. These two heavyweights lead the film and shine with committed, haunting performances, but that’s just it — the entirety of the movie is literally a single, lengthy conversation between the two. Unlike The Road or No Country for Old Men, there is no cinematic production; the dialogue is the sole source of compelling material in the film. For the patient, attentive viewer, this movie is an insightful, verbal battle between nihilism and faith. The film is an insightful rendition of two polarized reactions to an existential crisis, but it is admittedly sluggish. Viewers...

It was more than 18 months ago that we learned John Hillcoat will adapt Blood Meridian, perhaps our era’s quintessential piece of cinema-defying material. What’s eluded a list of auteurs from notable (Todd Field) to intriguing (Tommy Lee Jones) to Ymmv (Ridley Scott) to Dear God (James Franco) had now fallen to a director most, regardless their opinion on his films, would call a journeyman––a journeyman who also earned Cormac McCarthy’s blessing as executive producer and one-time screenwriting volunteer. The time since has seen its author’s passing and (notwithstanding John Logan joining as scribe) little else on Hillcoat’s project.

Credit goes to Alexander Sorondo, who’s penned a five-part investigation into McCarthy’s later years on his Substack big reader bad grades. Reading requires a $5 subscription that’s more than worth the price of admission––safe to say the reclusive novelist has rarely seemed so available.

Joel and Ethan Coen brought a touch of levity to their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s relentlessly bleak 2003 novel No Country for Old Men, though it’s the type of nervous humor that’s born from relieving immense tension. It was the Coens’ first film since their leaden remake of The Ladykillers, and it marked an exceptional return to their Blood Simple roots, another crime saga in which money is almost as irresistible as bad choices are inevitable.

The Coens’ cynical streak finds its perfect complement in McCarthy’s gloomy tale of biblical-scale chaos in 1980 Texas, and yet the filmmakers nonetheless locate the black comedy hidden within the acclaimed author’s terse, punctuation-sparse prose. Brusque exchanges and austere violence are the story’s stock-in-trade, with both elements so downbeat and harsh that they occasionally veer close to absurdity, thereby providing the filmmaking siblings with opportunities to wryly alleviate the oppressive...

The Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen is praised by a Russian mafia expert for one of his Academy Award-nominated roles. While many performances from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy are celebrated, Mortensen's depiction of the heroic Aragorn is particularly popular. There has even been discussions about him reprising the role for the franchise's upcoming movie, The Hunt for Gollum, directed by Andy Serkis and slated to release in 2026.

Even though he is best known for The Lord of the Rings, Mortensen has received three Academy Award nominations for other movies that he has starred in. His most recent nomination was for his depiction of Tony Lip in 2018's Green Book, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Mortensen has also received extensive recognition for playing The Man in 2009's The Road, a post-apocalyptic story adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.

Netflix's 2024 biopic Maria features a strong cast led by Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie. Jolie, best known for her roles in films such as Maleficent, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and Girl, Interrupted, returns in her first feature film since Marvel's 2021 action blockbuster Eternals. Jolie has also directed several films, such as First They Killed My Fathers (2017) and Unbroken (2014). Jolie took a break from acting from 2021's Eternals until 2024's Maria to focus on spending more time with her six kids, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.

Maria depicts the final days in the life of Maria Callas, who was once considered the greatest opera singer in the world. The film takes place in 1970s Paris as Maria's health declines. Maria sees the world through a near-hallucinogenic and fading lens with her butler, Ferruccio, and her maid, Bruna, who care deeply for her. Maria is directed by...

No Country for Old Men is the 2007 award-winning neo-Western by the Coen Brothers, based on the hit book by Cormac McCarthy, and both the movie and novel are populated with memorable characters. The movie follows a man named Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who stumbles upon a cartel's suitcase full of money and decides to run with it. That decision kicks off a chase through the American Southwest between him, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), and the terrifying Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). All three men are tied by fate yet rarely meet throughout the film.

The movie was a major success, earning $171.6 million at the box office (via Box Office Mojo). No Country for Old Men is one of the Coens' best movies, nominated for eight Oscars, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Bardem. Bardem is often considered the best thing to come out of the film,...

There are no such things as fixed, absolute truths, especially when it comes to the wayward progression of life. One common existential pondering to have is, as Shakespearean prose would best describe it, whether the sins of a father are to be laid upon the children. In a just world, the innocent should not be blamed nor pay for a crime they did not commit, unless they take part in it somehow. However, there’s plenty of evidence that shows consequences for an action can affect different generations to come. For instance, Gen Z must live with the aftereffects of water, air, and soil pollution caused by their ancestors, despite going to great lengths to combat contamination and reduce waste.

The uncertainty of absolution when it comes to generational sins is at the heart of Georgian film critic Levan Tskhovrebadze’s short film debut “Fisherman´s Burden” (2024), a crime thriller...

Have you been longing for a dark, gritty, epic take on the beloved ‘80s video game Pac-Man? Well, your wish has finally come true, as the latest look at the upcoming Prime Video anthology series, Secret Level, gives us just that. While much of the detail regarding the mysterious episode remains under wraps, this latest footage reveals that the Pac-Man episode will follow a lone, alien warrior as they make their way across dangerous terrain, avoiding all manner of monsters and other deadly threats. So, where does Pac-Man come into play? Well, he will reportedly be named Puck, based on the icon’s original moniker, Puck-Man, and is a small orb that helps guide our mysterious hero.

But, worry not, as the Secret Level episode looks epic regardless of how loose an adaptation it may be. You can check out the new footage from the Pac-Man episode below. This unique...

Film Noir would become the ubiquitous term for critics in the mid-50s and 60s to describe the stylish crime dramas and capers of the 40s and 50s. The visual stylization of noir collides with post-war uncertainty and anxiety which would be reflected within the convolution of the storytelling itself. Post the 1950s, filmmakers worldwide would construct narratives that would homage to the essence of film noir and become more integrated within the umbrella of other genres. Those would be termed as neo-noirs.

The essence of noirs would essentially “corrupt” and push the essence of genres like sci-fi towards far cynical territory. These neo-noirs would become prevalent in the early 2000s, especially post 9/11, where homage to a style would be transmuted into an expression of the human condition. The topics range from trauma, loss, and identity struggles to a disconnection from the world they inhabit. At times, there is also an inclination to shirk responsibility,...

Jeff Nichols is working on a Cormac McCarthy adaptation or two – but then has a new original film he’s also lining up.

When you have two wholly original films on your resume like Mud and Take Shelter, it’s a wonder that you’d ever consider adapting the work of others, yet that’s what Jeff Nichols has been doing for the last few years.

It’s understandable of course: Nichols has been inspired by some incredible works, having produced 2016’s Loving along with The Bikeriders earlier this year. Both films were adaptations of a sort, with the former being based on Nancy Buirski’s 2011 documentary and the latter adapting Danny Lyon’s book of photographs.

Nichols has had other projects on the go in the last few years that have also been adaptation, even if they haven’t come to fruition. There was a fresh take on Alien Nation...

Javier Bardem’s award-winning performance as Anton Chigurh in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is iconic in the pantheon of cinema villains. Fans may not be as familiar with the novelist Cormac McCarthy’s original creation of the villain in the eponymous book. The late McCarthy’s reputation as a premier contemporary American novelist largely resides in his unflinching portrayal of violence, which is something American audiences seem to have a perpetual appetite for. No Country for Old Men epitomizes this in its characterization of the serial killer, Anton Chigurh. In the book, Chigurh relishes in his cruelty; at times he’s akin to a James Bond villain, almost comical in his wickedness.

Jeff Nichols has big plans for his future, as he has announced that in addition to his planned Cormac McCarthy adaptations, he will be penning his first original feature since 2016’s Midnight Special.

Jeff Nichols got his start as one of the most distinct auteurs to emerge in the mid-2000s, writing and directing Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud, and the aforementioned Midnight Special. His two most recent features, Loving and this year’s The Bikeriders, both had their roots in true stories, with the latter being adapted from a photo book. On the mixture of projects, Nichols told Deadline, “I’ve been making period pieces and films inspired by other people’s work and this next film for better or worse is going to be cut from Jeff Nichols cloth.”

In addition to these, Jeff Nichols will also go back to adapting, as he will take on Cormac McCarthy’s two Passenger books,...

Whether it be by utter obliteration, acts of deities and demons, or merely the ruination of the environment for human habitation, the world's end has fascinated filmmakers for as long as special effects have allowed it to be visualized. In general, audiences are drawn to see such mass destruction at a fictional remove as well, though some tales of the end times can hit a bit too close to home to feel good as escapism.

Not every movie on this list actually depicts the end, but they all, in some way, reckon with it. What do the characters do with their imminent fate? What would you do? Most of these films ask the questions; others might use the demise of the globe as a surprise twist. As such, we must warn that there are spoilers below, if discussing the individual approach to world-ending developments necessitates them. In most cases, you...

The Oscar-winning classic from the legendary Coen Brothers, No Country for Old Men, lands on a new streaming home this December.

No Country for Old Men, arguably the Coen Brothers' best film, will land on Paramount+ on Dec. 1. Based on the novel of the same name by legendary author Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men centers around Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who discovers the remnants of a drug deal gone wrong while hunting in the Texas desert and happens upon a briefcase containing over $2 million in cash. Llewelyn decides to take the money for himself, setting off a dramatic game of cat and mouse with the sociopathic hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) who is hired to retrieve the stolen money.

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With Gladiator II now in theaters (read our review), many folks have been asking themselves that inevitable question – will Ridley Scott be doing a Director’s Cut, and how much footage will he be adding? Suffice it to say, Scott is truly a pioneer in this regard, as before he started adding footage back into his films and releasing director’s cuts, it was pretty rare. Indeed, his director’s cut of Blade Runner began the trend, especially when the radically different cut became a significant hit on home video and helped the film get rediscovered as a classic.

While not all of Ridley Scott’s Director’s Cuts have been necessary (the one for Alien messes with the mythology established by the sequels), some of the new cuts have been revelatory. Here are five great ones:

Kingdom of Heaven

When Kingdom of Heaven hit theatres in 2004, many thought it was paled next to Gladiator,...

No Country for Old Men, the neo-western thriller directed by the Coen brothers, is arriving in the streaming wasteland on December 1. Starring Javier Bardem in one of his finest performances, the bleak film offers the perfect counterbalance to the joy of the holiday season unless you have Christmas decorations with Anton Chigurhs face on them, in which case the film is already on your holiday watchlist.

No Country for Old Men hits Paramount+ the first day of December, and while it isnt the only thriller arriving on the platform next month, it is certainly one of the best. Joel and Ethan Coen's gritty neo-western is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Pulitzer prize-winner Cormac McCarthy. The $25 million production was a box office success, making over $171 million worldwide and proved the Coen brothers could be just as successful at the box office as they were with critics including the late Roger Ebert,...

Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese’s planned remake of Cape Fear is set to star Javier Bardem, it’s been revealed.

The first ever television collaboration between cinema giants, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg is moving forwards with a mighty casting announcement: Javier Bardem will be taking the lead role in an upcoming small screen remake of Cape Fear.

The report, courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, states that Bardem will take on the role of the unhinged stalker Max Cady, the narrative’s charismatic but psychopathic antagonist. Bardem’s casting sees him join a short but distinguished list of actors who have graced the role: Robert Mitchum played Cady in the 1962 film and Robert De Niro portrayed the character in Scorsese’s pulpy 1991 take.

We’d imagine that Bardem was one of the very first casting suggestions to spring to mind. His take on the equally menacing antagonist Anton Chigurh...

Stephen King‘s “Constant Readers” have read about the character Holly Gibney in the pages of his Bill Hodges trilogy, the novel The Outsider, the If It Bleeds short story from the collection of the same name, and his crime novel Holly. Now, Entertainment Weekly has revealed that Holly is also at the heart of his next novel, Never Flinch, which is set to reach store shelves on May 27, 2025.

A couple of years ago, King told The Kingcast hosts Eric Vespe and Scott Wampler, “I could never let Holly Gibney go from the Mr. Mercedes books. I mean, she was supposed to be a walk-on character and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart.” Obviously, Holly still has his heart. He had mentioned last year that he was working on another Holly Gibney book, but at that time he was calling it We Think Not. He...

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The Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men is perhaps their most well-regarded film. After premiering at Cannes, it proceeded to become one of the duo's highest-grossing films. It took home four awards at the 80th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Many consider it to be one of the best movies to come out thus far in the twenty-first century, and it's certainly one of the greatest modern Westerns.

However, like all book-to-movie adaptations, a few changes had to be made to optimize the story for the screen. Let's take a look at some of the biggest differences between Cormac McCarthy's novel and the film.

The Oscar-winning actor, writer, director, musician and star of Bad Santa, Armageddon and The Man Who Wasn’t There is ready to answer your questions

What is Billy Bob Thornton’s most iconic role? Some may say the taciturn barber in the Coen brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There, others might contend it’s the learning disabled killer in his early film Sling Blade. But we all know the truth: it’s the sex-addicted alcoholic Father Christmas in Bad Santa who is obsessed with the “three Bs”.

Be that as it may, Thornton has had a stellar Hollywood career since emerging in the mid-90s. Sling Blade, the independent 1996 film he wrote, directed and starred, won him a best adapted screenplay Oscar – though his directing career went into hibernation after a difficult time adapting Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses a few years later. However, he became a...

In the 24 years since the original Gladiator, director Ridley Scott has helmed an eclectic list of films. From the woefully underrated Alien prequels to a divisive Cormac McCarthy adaptation and the campy House of Gucci, there's been something for everyone. Now, Scott returns to the Colosseum for another sword-and-sandals epic, and it has about everything you'd expect from a follow-up film.

Gladiator II

Director Ridley ScottRelease Date November 22, 2024Studio(s) Red Wagon Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, Paramount Pictures, Universal PicturesDistributor(s) Paramount PicturesWriters David Franzoni, David Scarpa, Peter CraigCast Matthew Charlery-Smith, Mikhail Basmadjian, Alexander Simkin, Hadrian Howard, Chi Lewis Parry, Riana Duce, Alfie Tempest, Lee Charles, Paul Candelent, Maxime Durand, Joseph Quinn, May Calamawy, Alexander Karim, Tim McInnerny, Chidi Ajufo, Connie Nielsen, Matt Lucas, Pedro Pascal, Paul Mescal, Fred Hechinger, Lior Raz, Denzel Washington, Peter Mensah, Derek JacobiCharacter(s) Gracchus, Emperor Geta, Emperor Caracalla, Lucius Verus, Macrinus, Marcus Acacius, LucillaRating Not Yet RatedGenres Drama,...

If you’ve just finished watching Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End on Amazon Prime Video, you’re probably looking for something else to keep that post-apocalyptic vibe going. Well, you’re in luck, because two movies that would make for a perfect follow-up are The Road (2009) and 28 Days Later (2002). Both of these films share the same intense survival themes and emotional depth that make Apocalypse Z so gripping, but each has its own unique spin on the end-of-the-world chaos.

Let’s start with The Road, a film that’s all about survival in a destroyed world. Directed by John Hillcoat and based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Road takes place in a bleak, post-apocalyptic setting where a father and his young son try to stay alive in a world with nothing but ash and cold. Like Manel in Apocalypse Z, the father and son in...

Cormac McCarthy was one of the most important American writers of the 20th century, and of the 21st century so far. It wasnt until the 2000s that he became something of a household name outside the world of literature, thanks to some high-profile adaptations of his later works. His writing style was distinctive, blunt, and rather powerful in its own unique way difficult to adapt to film, too, but some filmmakers managed to do McCarthys work justice, even if it meant some deviations from the source material.

A quoted review in the new trailer for Joshua Oppenheimer's The End hails it as "one of the most unique cinematic experiences ever." Based on the clip Neon dropped today, that might actually be true. The End is a musical (with actual singing in the trailer!) starring Tilda Swinton,...

With Ridley Scott, you never know what you're going to get. The rare filmmaker of high taste with commercial sensibilities, Scott's filmography ranges from stone-cold masterpieces to forgettable programmers. Remarkably, the British director is still at the top of his game, as Gladiator II is set to be one of the most prominent releases on the 2024 calendar. Although his status in film culture is taken for granted due to his prolific nature, Scott should never be mistaken as a conventional studio filmmaker. Even in his most flawed but curiously fascinating movies, like 2013's The Counselor, Scott loves taking big swings. None, however, were quite as audacious as the Cameron Diaz car sex scene in the bleak Cormac McCarthy-scripted crime drama.

Warning: This article discusses topics of sexual assault, extreme violence, and death.

There are plenty of incredibly terrifying stories that, technically, arent classified as a horror book. Although there are several scary classic horror books to check out, there are also titles from other genres that are just as eerie.

While there might not be monsters or the supernatural, fear comes in many forms. From sci-fi to twist-ending thrillers, these brilliant novels are also haunting reads.

The Road (2006) Written By Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthys The Road is a fantastic post-apocalyptic read about a father and son living in the dust of the remains of the US. The Roads cannibalistic groups and messages about global warming are definitely chilling. Although there is no big threat other than humanity itself, nobody is truly safe in The Road.

Imagery like a newborn baby being roasted over a fire or the father shooting a...

Considered one of the best films of the Coen brother’s filmography, No Country for Old Men won several accolades on its release. The neo-Western crime thriller starred Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin together with Tommy Lee Jones and was based on Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel.

Bardem’s performance as the bold hitman Anton Chigurh was praised by the viewers and critics alike. However, the actor’s reason for greenlighting the script would surprise fans. The actor mentioned feeling out of place for the savage role until he saw the haircut they wanted for his character, the ridiculous get-up made him say yes.

One of the best neo-Western films: Critics choice Still from No Country for Old Men | Credits: Miramax Films & Paramount Pictures

Joel and Ethan Coen, famously known as the Coen brothers have given a lot of remarkable movies to Hollywood in various genres. However, fans of the Western...

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If there's one thing Stephen King knows pretty well, it's villains. The prolific horror author has been writing basically nonstop since he released "Carrie," his debut novel, back in 1974, and his work has been endlessly adapted for both the big and small screen. In 2009, he even compiled a list of his favorite villains that he didn't create, and it's a pretty solid rundown — which certainly isn't surprising.

From literary icons to on-screen favorites to a villain with a confusingly familiar name — I'll clarify that whole thing when we arrive at that point — here are Stephen King's top ten villains of all time, whom he ranked for Entertainment Weekly at the close of the aughts. King ranked his top 10 from "least villainous" to "most villainous," apparently, so we've preserved that order here.

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Ridley Scott's Alien prequel Prometheus served as an unusual reunion between Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce after their 15-year-old post-apocalyptic survival thriller. Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce are two of the most talented actors currently working in Hollywood, and almost every movie they make is a hit. Despite their respective success, however, Pearce and Theron rarely work together, and there's almost no overlap between the best Charlize Theron movies and the best Guy Pearce movies. Prometheus is one of only two films they've ever collaborated on, and their roles in it were also much more memorable than their first collaboration.

Not only was Prometheus the second time Theron and Pearce worked together on a film, it was also much more successful than their first outing. Prometheus, though it wasn't initially well received as an Alien movie, was fairly successful. It earned a 73% score on Rotten Tomatoes,...

Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi adventure The Electric State adapts a much-loved art book by Simon Stalenhag. Or does it? We weigh up what counts as an adaptation.

Does Netflix read YouTube comments? If so, it’s a wonder what it makes of the 2,200 (and counting) responses beneath the debut trailer for its upcoming movie, The Electric State. They’re not what you’d call enthusiastic.

“It’s literally an art book,” reads one. “How did they make it look so wrong.”

“The tone looks nothing like the book whatsoever,” reads another. “I loved the hopeless, lonely, and dystopian feel of the source material.”

It’s churlish to judge a film too harshly based on its marketing, of course, but watching the 147-second promo for Netflix’s upcoming, (reported) $320m sci-fi adventure raises a number of questions. Most pressingly: why option Swedish artist and author Simon Stalenhag’s graphic novel of...

The Road ending is just as bleak as the rest of the post-apocalyptic drama. Director John Hillcoat adapted Cormac McCarthys book The Road in 2009. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee star as a father and son (credited only as Man and Boy") trying to survive after an unspecified extinction event has wiped out most of the population. The Road follows the man and the boy as they head southwards through the barren wasteland in search of the coast and warmer climes, scavenging what little food they can find and having terrifying encounters with marauders and cannibals along the way.

The man tries to protect his son as best he can, but keeps a gun loaded with their last bullet and ensures the boy knows how to take his own life, since death isn't the worst fate for the boy in the post-apocalyptic 2019 shown in The Road. By The Road ending, the...

During the 1980s and '90s, Arnold Schwarzenegger ascended to the top of the Hollywood action genre through iconic movies like Terminator, Conan the Barbarian and Total Recall. Famously, the Austrian-born Republican ran a successful bid for the governorship of California, obviously putting his acting career on hiatus. When he returned to the big screen, it was a return to form, re-entering the action genre including a fun Neo-Western.

Schwarzenegger served as governor of California between 2003 and 2011, with his acting career being put on hold following the disappointing release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. After his two consecutive terms ended, the bodybuilding politician returned to Hollywood. While the actor took on co-starring roles in the first two Expendables movies, it wouldn't be until 2013 that he finally got top billing in a fairly underrated neo-Western action flick titled The Last Stand. After projects like No Country For Old Men...