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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Awards season picked up a little steam today with a batch of nominations from the International Documentary Association and the British Independent Film Awards.
The 2008 IDA Documentary Award nominees are:

Kassim the Dream - the story of Ugandan child soldier turned World Champion boxer Kassim “The Dream” Ouima (Coming to AFI Fest).
Man on Wire - this [...]

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Wong Kar-Wai’s Ashes of Time Redux, opening in limited release 
There isn’t much to get too excited about in the wide releases this weekend:

Body of Lies. A Ridley Scott thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent on the trail of a terrorist leader. He is guided from afar by CIA veteran Russell Crowe but with his life [...]

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I crammed all my movies into Sunday evening and it’s late and I’m tired so I’m going to keep my half of this short. Let’s just say It wasn’t exactly a movie going weekend for the record books, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
First up was Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Téa Leoni in [...]

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Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris in Appaloosa opening in NY, LA and Toronto
Unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, this might be a good weekend to go see Burn After Reading again because there isn’t much to get excited about in this week’s new wide releases:

Ghost Town. Ricky Gervais is a dentist whose [...]

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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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George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]

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