Muriel picks the best picture of 2009 tomorrow, but over the last couple of days she’s racked up three picks in major categories that definitely go against conventional wisdom and are sure to bunch up more than a few pairs of undies. Though none of them received my first place vote, I like all the [...]
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Rumors that George Miller would be making a Mad Max sequel have been floating around probably since Beyond Thunderdome came out in 1985. Why? Because we don’t need another hero. We just need Mad Max.
Things really started percolating last May and the rumors reared their heads again in August with talk of Hurt Locker’s Jeremy [...]
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The Gotham Independent Film Awards: 3 for Hurt Locker and Big Fan. 2 for A Serious Man and The Maid.
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Roger Ebert enjoyed the hell out of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and you should too.
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Forget about Transformers action fans, go see The Hurt Locker this weekend instead
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Of all the films to have been made about the war in Iraq, it’s tempting to call Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker the best of the bunch. It might be, but it’s unfair to pin it too closely to Iraq. It’s much more of a general War is Hell picture.
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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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