The Hurt Locker (movie)

L.A. Times Hero Complex film fest invades the TCL Chinese 6

2013-05-09 06:00:00

The Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival kicks off Friday evening at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres at Hollywood & Highland with a double bill of John Carpenter's 1988 "They Live" and his classic 1978 horror film, "Halloween. Carpenter will appear...

Afghan bomb cost Marine his legs, but not his spirit

2013-04-09 01:09:00

SAN DIEGO — Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Zambon was in Afghanistan, on his fourth combat deployment as an explosive ordnance disposal technician, when he took a step and heard the ominous click. "I remember flying through the air and coming down on my...

Oscars 2013: Ang Lee is worthy, but better than Steven Spielberg?

2013-02-25 06:45:00

Now that the dust has settled and cold reality has replaced airy speculation, it's clearer than ever that as far as the 2013 best picture Oscar was concerned, Hollywood's directors gave and took away. Not content with being the powers on the set, the...

Oscar predictions 2013: 'Argo' will take screenplay, film editing

2013-02-22 10:00:00

Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. Predictions so far: Short Films | Sound | Visual Crafts | Song and Score --...

Oscar predictions: Vegas lays odds, and the best bet goes to ...

2013-02-22 07:00:00

Are you feeling certain, like most, that Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the lead actor Oscar on Sunday for his title turn in "Lincoln"? If you want to put some money behind that belief, you can, but, given his sure-shot status, you'd better be...

Critic's Notebook: Movie violence must not be stopped

2013-02-15 08:00:00

I abhor violence. As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict. From the terrifyingly premeditated to the unfortunately accidental, those images still have the...

Oscars 2013: Telluride festival emerges as best picture predictor

2013-02-18 11:40:00

Oscar pundits love to debate the best forecaster of the Academy Awards. Is it the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild ensemble trophy or some obscure film critics organization?� Here's a new theory: the Telluride Film Festival. If "Argo" takes home...

'Argo,' 'Lincoln' spare no expense in Oscar best picture race

2013-02-16 06:00:00

Forget about the price of gasoline: The real skyrocketing expense this year is the Oscar race. With two deep-pocketed studios locked into one of the closest best picture duels in recent memory and Academy Award voting extended by two weeks, the battle...

D.C. is an issue in Oscar campaigns

2013-02-09 05:00:00

Hollywood director David O. Russell took a meeting this week to talk about a movie. But the man in the room with him wasn't a studio executive or an actor hoping for a role — he was Vice President Joe Biden. Russell met Biden and spoke on the...

Oscars 2013: ‘The Avengers’ cast to join forces at ceremony

2013-02-06 11:22:10

SAG Awards 2013: What to look for at the actors' big night

2013-01-27 12:00:00

On Sunday night, it's the actors' turn. Many critics groups and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. have already weighed in with their favorite films and performances of the year, and now the time has come for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Oscar...

Oscars 2013: 'Zero Dark Thirty' is undeserving victim of politics

2013-01-11 08:30:00

If you're keeping score this Oscar season — and who isn't? — chalk up this year's nominations as a victory for the bullying power of the United States Senate and an undeserved loss for "Zero Dark Thirty" in general and director Kathryn Bigelow...

The obvious comparison would be to 2010's winning "The Hurt Locker," from writer to director to the scorched-earth suffering in its plot. Taking it to an even darker realm, we could also go with "The Silence of the Lambs" from 1991.

2013-01-23 18:32:54

R; 2:37 running time In "Zero Dark Thirty," the key American film of 2012, now going into wider release, Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal � the pair behind "The Hurt Locker" � are after something truer and more lasting than getting an audience to burst into applause when the bad guys are

2013-01-03 08:55:00

From the director of "The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow, this unerring docudrama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden leaves the polemics aside, yet leaves you feeling uneasy about the bargains we've made as a country in the wake of 9/11.

2012-12-20 12:04:00