Oct 30 2009 New 'The Road' Trailer: Big Budget Bumfights

It's still hard to tell if The Road is going to be an overblown Roland Emmerich of a mess or a post-apocalyptic classic that will do its source material proud, but just from this new trailer I'm ready to give the film its first two awards.

Award 1: Best Score That Makes Me Think the Trailer Will End with Someone Landing on the Moon. I'm not sure if this is the film's actual score or a track lifted from a classic I'm failing to recognize, but hearing it has me on the edge of my seat waiting for that American flag to strike the lunar surface.

Award 2: Most Disarmingly Gratuitous Use of the Wilhelm Scream. If you're going to be that blatant about it, it should at least be followed by a cartoon "splat."

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Oct 21 2009 New 'The Road' Poster: "Stand Back, Son -- I'm Going To Rappel Down Something, Then Shoot Something."

If you're still looking for a Halloween costume idea, how about Viggo Mortensen in The Road? It would be pretty easy to put together, plus you could probably use it again next year as a mountain-climbing-hobo-assassin costume. That's capital-V Value.

New Poster for The Road [ComingSoon]

Oct 25 2007 Kodi Smit-McPhee is Young Wolverine, Stupidly Named

11-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee has nabbed the part of young Logan is the upcoming X-Men spin-off, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. What does this mean to you?

a) Should be good. He did well in Romulus, My Father.
b) Someone punch his stupid Chiclet teeth out of his head, but let me watch.

My answer reveals why I should never have children.

Smit-McPhee is Young Logan in Wolverine [Superhero Hype]