The Road News

And Kirsten Dunst certainly didn't disappoint on Thursday, as she headed out in Los Angeles wearing a 1950s style shift dress and large retro sunglasses.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The Capri Theatre will screen the film adaption of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" tonight at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. in Montgomery.

Tales about the end of the world are in a distinguished group of their own, ranging in methods by which the times end or human-kind is annihilated.

WHEN: 6 p.m. Sunday , 6 p.m. Monday , 3 p.m. Wednesday , 6 p.m. Friday . WHERE: AMC Loews Village 7, 66 Third Ave., Manhattan; 212-982-2116. Clearview Cinemas, Chelsea, 260 W. 23rd St., Manhattan; 212-691-5519. Some advance viewers of "A Birder's Guide to Everything," opening Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival, have been reminded of "Stand By Me" ... (more)

The new film that attempts to recreate on screen the iconic book of the beat fifties and arguably the book that gave birth to the sixties, has a tough job, because the book is more of a failed but glorious quest for meaning and personal revelation than a conventional story.