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Cormac McCarthy

A collection of 4 posts
Film Reviews

The Counselor (2013)

This is not more of the trendy Tarantino revelry in nastiness and violence. This is a true horror film. Like David Fincher's "Se7en," one of this movie's closest spiritual cousins, "The Counselor" ultimately delivers a diagnosis that tells the awful truth. And the Counselor himself doesn't want to k
26 Oct 2013 9 min read
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Film Reviews

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Five years ago today, No Country for Old Men played in the U.S. for the first time. The buzz had begun at the Cannes Film Festival a few months earlier, and anticipation was high. It went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars, surprising some by winning over Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
06 Oct 2012 8 min read
On Books & Writing

What Do Harold and the Purple Crayon and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses Have In Common?

What do Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson, and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses have in common? Gregory Wolfe, publisher of Image and author of Beauty Will Save the World, explains in this, his commencement address to the 2012 graduates of Seattle Pacific University's MFA in C
14 Aug 2012 1 min read
On Movies & Media

To infinity and beyond... friend-o.

What would Cormac McCarthy's Toy Story 3 look like? Here's the answer: (via Village Voice)
24 Jun 2010
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