The Hurt Locker’s Brian Geraghty stars as a lonely man who gets involved in an intense phone sex relationship with a stranger. Rather than played it for easy laughs, this is actually an at times poignant exploration of loneliness in the modern world.

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Based on the accounts of journalist Mark Boal, Kathyrn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker takes a soldier’s eye view of the Iraq War in telling the story of an elite Army Explosive Ordinance Team.

With good reviews coming out of Venice and Toronto and appearances on a few Best Unreleased of 2008 lists, could this finally be [...]

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Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq themed The Hurt Locker
That’s what it’s been like recently for movies that have anything to do with Iraq. The question is: are audiences truly leery of movies about Iraq or are they just waiting for a good one?
According to THR’s Steven Zeitchik, the next crop of war films seems [...]

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