Detroit movie street riot scene: The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow tackles the 1967 Detroit riots in “horribly real” and “deeply self-serving” 2017 release marketed as a “dramatic thriller.” Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Detroit’ movie: Horribly real semidocumentary or self-serving Hollywood depiction of…
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Scariest Movies: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ with Janet Leigh, John Gavin and Vera Miles. Scariest movies ever made: The top 100 horror films according to the Chicago Film Critics I tend to ignore lists featuring the Top 100 Movies (or Top 10 Movies or Top 20…
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Zero Dark Thirty controversy: Jessica Chastain star in Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller. Zero Dark Thirty: Controversy boosts weekend box office Familiarity may breed contempt (if you’re around the wrong person), but controversy surely breeds box office sales (if said controversy takes place at the time…
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Zero Dark Thirty with Chris Pratt and Joel Edgerton. With ten wins and two nominations to date, Kathryn Bigelow is the top Best Director choice this awards season for the controversial “war on terror” thriller Zero Dark Thirty, about a dogged CIA analyst (Jessica Chastain)…
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Amour with Emmanuelle Riva. Michael Haneke’s French-language drama Amour is easily the top Best Foreign Language Film pick this awards season. Strangely, the film’s veteran leading man, Jean-Louis Trintignant, hasn’t been winning any awards in the U.S.; on the other hand, co-star Emmanuelle Riva has…
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Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow. The “war on terror” thriller Zero Dark Thirty has yet to open in the U.S., but it can already be labeled as one of the year’s most controversial movies, as it deals with the hunt for and assassination of…
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Zero Dark Thirty with Jessica Chastain. Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for – and eventual assassination of – Osama bin Laden, has already stirred quite a bit of controversy even though it has yet to open in the U.S. Whether or…
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Zero Dark Thirty poster: Kathryn Bigelow’s mystery movie about the story everyone (sort of) knows The Zero Dark Thirty poster has just come out. Plot details about the upcoming Kathryn Bigelow-directed feature, however, have been scarce – or downright nonexistent. Zero Dark Thirty: Echoes of…
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Persepolis controversy: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud animated feature offends – some of – Tunisia’s Fundamentalist Muslims. ‘Persepolis’ Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims Three days ago a group of 200 Fundamentalist Muslims protested outside the headquarters of a television station in…
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Bin Laden movie & Obama Administration connection: Republican congressman wants investigation The Hurt Locker‘s Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been receiving assistance from the Barack Obama Administration for their Bin Laden movie project, about the Navy SEAL raid that killed Islamist…
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Amy Adams: The Oscars’ Red Carpet. Amy Adams Oscar photos Amy Adams is pictured at the 2011 Oscar ceremony, held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in the fast-thumping heart of Hollywood. Adams was – for the third time in six years (more info…
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Two Marilyn Monroe movies for the price of, well, two – which quite possibly means $50 by the time they come out. One, to be called Blonde, will star King Kong‘s Naomi Watts as Monroe, apparently having affairs right and left. Based on Joyce Carol…