The 82nd Academy Awards are looming. The conspicuously underacknowledged Michael Calle previews what is shaping up to be a done-and-dusted Oscar night.

It’s been a long hard road for Australian director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic post-apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’. Faced with multiple production setbacks and numerous release switch-ups, Hillcoat overcomes them all, turning in a refreshingly new take on the disaster film. Minus the disaster.

It was panned by the critics when first published, but 38 years later Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” remains a highly influential book, especially for journalists. Michael Calle considers its legacy.