Roger Ebert enjoyed the hell out of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and you should too.

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The first 8 minutes of Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘The Hurt Locker’ an action-suspense film about an elite bomb disposal unit working in Baghdad.

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Forget about Transformers action fans, go see The Hurt Locker this weekend instead

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Here’s the latest poster for Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent War-is-Hell action drama The Hurt Locker which tells the story of an elite bomb disposal squad working the streets of Baghdad. The poster nicely captures the “aw shit” money shot from the film and trailer.
Click the image to see a slightly bigger version couresy of Premiere.com.
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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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I’m liking the idea of compiling the odd development, production and distribution tidbits into one post so Loose Ends might become an irregular feature. Here’s what’s been going on for the last few days:
Summit Entertainment has picked up US rights to The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow’s well-received Iraq action picture about a bomb squad in [...]

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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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Here’s a quick rundown of some of the news in the last 24 hours or so.
The LA Times speculates on whether The Dark Knight will surpass Titanic’s hallowed $600.8 million domestic box office mark, but unless you account for inflation (ticket prices averaged $4.69 in 1998 compared to an expected $7 this year), it doesn’t [...]

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