What grander achievement can there be in cinematography than taking something we know and have possibly even seen on film before -- like a historic cave or a simple piece of choreography -- and transforming it into something more real than ever before?
OK, that's it - I'm officially tuning out all further Academy Award whining, prognosticating, analyzing, deconstructing and every other kind of Oscar ...
With his award-winning 2005 debut, "Here, Bullet," a collection about his time in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker brigade, the US soldier-poet picked up whe...
First United is the place of sanctuary for an American war resister, 32-year old Rodney Watson. Since he can be arrested by Canadian and US authorities if he ventures outside, for one year Watson has taken asylum from war in an asylum of homeless misfits.
If you've heard the name "Nicolas Chartier" before, it's probably because the Hurt Locker producer was banished from the Oscars after sending an earli...
Why get uptight, right? This is a genre flick, after all. And yet, this movie did make me uptight with its profound indifference to a nation utterly destroyed in an American preemptive war.
We're getting unconfirmed reports of a bomb squad investigating (and defusing?) a bomb behind the Conde Nast building in Times Square.
The NYPD curre...
Five veterans are making short documentaries that will let people see what the veteran experience is really like. We aren't making Hollywood action movies.
The producers of The Hurt Locker are working directly with the US Copyright Group in an effort to sue "tens of thousands" of people who illegally downloaded the film online.
I finally realized there was no hope for ABC's strikingly ill-formed telecast of the 82nd Academy Awards when Robin Williams took the stage to present...
When I saw The Hurt Locker back in August, I thought, "Finally a grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq. And not so gung-ho either." Leave it to my staff...
Perhaps the Academy's thinking is, why give its imprimatur to important works of artistry that detract from stories for 14 year-olds with game-changing effects?
In accepting the Best Original Screenplay for Hurt Locker last night, Mark Boal said:
"I would also like to thank and dedicate this to the troops, th...
Engelhardt doesn't like planting bombs under bridges. He just can't stop thinking like a bomb maker. For 20 years, he defused bombs as a member of ass...
Pre-Oscar kneecapping of The Hurt Locker misses the point: despite being set in Baghdad, the film was never really about Iraq. It's about the addiction that grips war correspondents and soldiers alike.
News about Iraq has faded into the background, prematurely I think. The Hurt Locker returns us to the point where we need to be -- examining the impact upon those we ask to serve.
James Cameron hopes that his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow beats him in the Best Director category to win an Oscar for her film "Hurt Locker."
The Avatar ...
The Hurt Locker is in many ways inaccurate. And the inaccuracies have alienated most service members from enjoying this movie. However, it is better then a lot of the recent war movies that have been released.
The Hurt Locker has done more to raise the awareness of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) profession than any single work to date, for which I am grateful.