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Emmy nominations: Who got skunked!
16 July 2009 2:12 PM, PDT | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news
Ah, the Emmy nominations that might have been! Below is a list of the programs and stars that got snubbed by the 14,000 voters in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Here is a full list of nominees. * = Top 10 Semi-Finalist in 2008
** = Nominee in 2008 Not-so-best Drama Series
"Boston Legal" **
"ER"
"Grey's Anatomy" *
"The Mentalist"
"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"
"The Tudors" *
"24" Not-so-best Comedy Series
"Scrubs"
"Two and a Half Men" **
"Ugly Betty" *
"United States of Tara" Not-so-best Miniseries
"House of Saddam" (HBO)
"Maneater" (Lifetime) Not-so-best TV Movie
"America"
"Front of the Class"
"Gifted Hands"
"God on Trial"
"Living Proof"
"My Zinc Bed"
"Natalee Holloway"
"Sybil" Not-so-best Reality Program
"Celebrity Rehab"
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" **
"Man vs. Wild"
"Penn & Teller ... !" Not-so-best Reality-competition Program
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tomoneil
'The Hurt Locker' Treats Audiences to a World of Pain
15 July 2009 9:25 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news
Employing a level of tension that a horror director would covet, Kathryn Bigelow has crafted a master action film with The Hurt Locker. The Point Break filmmaker has directed a piece of work that should appeal to both action movie hounds with its impeccable special effects, and to indie audiences with its attention to character and detail.
In the unbearably hot summer of 2004 in Baghdad, three men in Bravo Company work together to defuse Iraqi bombs, or Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). From bombs buried in the ground to men wearing vests strapped with explosives, these weapons are responsible for the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi citizens. Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner, 28 Weeks Later) defuses the bombs, and his cowboy-like manner belies the precision and talent required to do his dangerous, stressful job. The task of Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie, Eagle Eye) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty,
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Open the hurt locker and learn how rough men come hunting for souls
13 July 2009 7:58 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news
"The Hurt Locker" represents a return to strong, exciting narrative. Here is a film about a bomb disposal expert that depends on character, dialogue and situation to develop almost unbearable suspense. It contains explosions, but only a few, and it is not about explosions, but about hoping that none will happen. That sense of hope is crucial. When we merely want to see stuff blowed up real good in a movie, that means the movie contains no one we give a damn about.
We care a lot about the people in "The Hurt Locker." It does what many good movies does, and gives us a feeling for the personalities and motivations of its characters. What happens to Staff Sgt. William James matters to us. He is a brave and complicated man, and we worry about him. It is a good thing he is doing. He is risking his life to
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Roger Ebert
[Movie Review] The Hurt Locker
9 July 2009 8:40 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
Since the beginning of the Iraq War (that's 2003 in case you somehow forgot), there have been a number of fictional movies about the controversial war, most of them ignored by the public and many of them panned by critics. Not surprisingly, most of these movies have an opinion or two about the war itself and they tend to be quite cloying or bullheaded about their point. Not that The Hurt Locker is completely devoid of a political opinion. It in fact begins with a quote by New York Times writer and vocal Iraq War critic Chris Hedges: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." However, it's certainly less concerned with mulling over the stigma of war than it is with communicating the experience of being there. This is the most relevant, nuanced and viscerally jolting war film since Full Metal Jacket.
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Arya Ponto
Riveting, Must-See ‘The Hurt Locker’ is Flawless Filmmaking
9 July 2009 8:48 AM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news
Chicago – Filmmaking simply doesn’t get much more riveting than Kathryn Bigelow’s incredible “The Hurt Locker,” a cinematic experience unlike any other that you will have this year. Building and releasing tension better than her peers have in a long time, Bigelow has made not only the best Iraq War movie to date but the best film of 2009 at just over the halfway point.
Rating: 5.0/5.0 With “The Hurt Locker,” Bigelow takes viewers to the other side of the world to bring into relatable perspective a daily grind that most of us couldn’t even imagine. The leads in “The Hurt Locker” are soldiers in Iraq who diffuse bombs for a living, often in range of sniper fire and often with materials and equipment tragically unable to protect them should something go wrong.
Read Brian Tallerico’s full review of “The Hurt Locker” in our reviews section. “The Hurt Locker” is a visceral,
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adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
'Hurt Locker' - First 8 Minutes Online
8 July 2009 11:15 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Bomb squad. War zone. Malfunctioning robot. In the opening sequence of The Hurt Locker, director Kathryn Bigelow expertly sets a tone of anxious, sweat-soaked drama. The film has been playing in New York and Los Angeles, expands to selected cities this Friday, and then goes wide on July 24. You can watch the first eight minutes online at Hulu (or after the jump).
And if that doesn't grab you, I don't know what will. I saw The Hurt Locker at SXSW, and that opening sequence pinned me to my seat. Guy Pearce leads a bomb squad that includes Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty. They're already suited up in protective gear as the scene begins, wisecracking and otherwise demonstrating an easy camaraderie. A small wheeled robot has a minor mechanical malfunction, requiring Pearce to walk into harm's way to fix it. The team's wary conversational bravado continues, even as they shift into
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Peter Martin
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 2 Signed ‘The Hurt Locker’ Posters With Star Jeremy Renner
7 July 2009 12:53 PM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news
Chicago – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 2 signed “The Hurt Locker” posters by star Jeremy Renner and a few other cast members and filmmakers! “The Hurt Locker” stars Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly and Christian Camargo.
“The Hurt Locker,” which opens on July 10, 2009 in Chicago, is the winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival Signis Grand Prize. The film will be showing at AMC River East and Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema in Chicago as well as CineArts in Evanston, Ill.
To win your “The Hurt Locker” signed poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is tell us your danger story in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “The Hurt Locker” with Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce and Jeremy Renner.
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adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Inside track: Emmy race for lead actress in a drama
4 July 2009 7:01 PM, PDT | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news
Since the Emmys have ditched the judging panels to determine nominees, letting the lineups be chosen strictly by an outright popular balloting of the TV academy's acting branch, that means the outcome should be more predictable than usual. Expect last year's champ Glenn Close ("Damages") and 2007 winner, 2008 nominee and double Oscar victor Sally Field ("Brothers & Sisters") to return. Ditto perennial nominees Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: Svu") and Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer"). Voters usually drive a stake through the Emmy hopes of the stars of vampire shows (poor "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star Sarah Michelle Gellar was never nommed despite shrieks of outrage from every TV critic), but Anna Paquin ("True Blood") has two pluses: being on HBO and owning an Oscar ("The Piano"). Past Oscar champ for the same film, Holly Hunter, was nominated last year for "Saving Grace," so she'll probably be back. That leaves one more slot open,
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tomoneil
Transcript – Lost producers Cuse, Lindelof, and Bender talk Season 6 – 7/03/09
4 July 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | From TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news
Lost producers Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, with producer/director Jack Bender, recently held a public questions and answers session in London at the Curzon theater. The discussion centered mostly around vague aspects of Lost 6’s season with Lindelof assuring fans that time travel was over, and to expect a tone similar to the show’s first season. Read on for the full text.
First a few bullet points from the presentation:
Initial thank you’s, then showed a recap video of Lost, D&C confirmed that Stranger In A Strange Land was the turning point for the studio, and they were allowed to establish an end date. Jack’s beard is bad. 16 episodes next year, but 18 hours of Lost. Jack Bender confirmed a two hour season premiere, and a two hour finale. After Lost, they will go in to hiding for a while, due to the inevitably interpretive quality to the series ending.
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Jon Lachonis
The Hurt Locker Review
2 July 2009 4:28 PM, PDT | From newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news
Raw, gripping suspense and intricate, apolitical authenticity make The Hurt Locker the best narrative about the continuing war in Iraq. The film is immersive in setting and story, while they both develop through each careful shot. Director Kathryn Bigelow went to great lengths to reenact the tense reality of combat, the physical and emotional stresses of deployment, and the unquestionable bravery of American soldiers. She was successful on all three missions.
Bigelow embedded her cast and crew in the Middle East to shoot the film as close to the conflict overseas as possible. The gritty cinematography and dusty locations create the feeling of sand in your shoes and intense heat on your skin. Cast members grunt and sweat under 70-pound equipment in sweltering 100-degree temperatures. Sounds of heavy machinery rolling into place fill the eerie silence when the citizens and livestock vacate the blast zone. Luckily hand-held cameras capture everything for you.
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Jeff Leins
Lost: Season One Blu-ray Review with D-box
27 June 2009 11:09 PM, PDT | From TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news
"Guys, where are we?" Lost revolutionized network television in 2004 when its pilot episode premiered and immediately ignited a fandom craze. Captivating, mysterious, engaging, unpredictable, and groundbreaking are only a fraction of the adjectives that apply to describing the show about survivors of a plane crash on an uncharted and unfriendly island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The first season of Lost introduced so many questions and seemingly supernatural mysteries that it would take another five seasons to answer them all. For every question answered another three would present themselves sending theorists back to the drawing board and casual observers left with a look of bewilderment sketched across their face. Network television had never seen anything like it before and no subsequent show has even approached its complexity. Series creator J.J. Abrams used the island as a backdrop for telling the stories about 14 of the crash survivors. Throughout the season each
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[DVD Review] Lost: The Complete Second Season
24 June 2009 9:55 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
Before we begin, if you’ve yet to watch the first season of Lost, just stop reading now. Reading this review won’t give you an edge when you finally go to watch the first season, it’ll just ruin some of the great moments. Do yourself a favor and go read the review for the first season or, if you already have, go watch the first season and then come back. With that said, you’ve been warned, because there be slight first season spoilers ahead.
As the first season came to a close, Locke (Terry O’Quinn), Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Hurley (Jorge Garcia) blew open the hatch with dynamite – leaving a gaping hole left to be explored. Meanwhile, the crew of the makeshift sailboat reel after the encounter with the mysterious boat whose occupants abducted Walt (Malcolm David Kelley), the son of Michael (Harold Perrineau). Reaching shore,
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Lex Walker
[DVD Review] Lost: The Complete First Season
24 June 2009 8:42 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
The best shows on television live outside themselves; when the credits roll, the fans don’t just call it a night. They theorize. They scrounge. They rewind. Lost inspired the fans. With just one episode aired, the show’s online presence spawned a conspiracy theory fervor that remains to this day. The success of Lost doesn’t stem from any one particular place, but one factor does work as a spine off which everything else drapes: the mystery. The island poses question after question and each one is allowed to hang there to taunt the audience. The characters, whose lives are revealed by flashback one at a time, resonate as some of the most developed on network television – each has their own motives and, making it better, more often than not the motives aren’t without a certain degree of deception. It’s all too easy to imagine a series
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Lex Walker
TV Sci-Fi Predicts All the Biggest Disasters
23 June 2009 3:40 PM, PDT | From Movieline | See recent Movieline news
As always, you can count on Bolivian network news to say what everyone's been thinking: The Air France Flight 447 disaster is kind of like Lost, isn't it? Though none among us would most likely be ballsy enough to run Evangeline Lilly-starring still frames from the show as purported footage from the Air France disaster, as the Bolivians did. Still, this isn't the first time that terrible disasters have been unwittingly predicted (and eerily paralleled) by science fiction teevee programs.
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The Hurt Locker (2009)
22 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Written by Mark Boal
Featuring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pierce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly, Christian Camargo, Christopher Sayegh, and David Morse
Release Date: June 26th, 2009
Kathryn Bigelow wows the film universe by yet again doing the unthinkable: directing an action movie with as much entertainment value as any man. She’s defied these laws of sexual physics before, with inexplicable gender-of-director-ambiguity in sci-fi Strange Days, thrillers Point Break and Blue Steel, and the Eric Red action vampire horror western Near Dark. Film fans, horror fans, and action movie buffs alike all love Bigelow. She, like Gale Ann Hurd, graduated from the James Cameron School of Filmmaking, and her latest film The Hurt Locker is an action war movie of which Michael Bay should be jealous. Explosions? Check. Automatic gun stuff? Check. Guys doing guy things? Check. All that’s missing is the cheesy one-liners,
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Superheidi
Blu-Ray Review: First Two Seasons of ‘Lost’ Finally Available in HD
18 June 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news
Chicago – A majority of people who watch television in HD would cite ABC’s “Lost” as having the highest quality broadcast on television from a technical level but the first two seasons were only available in standard definition. Until now. J.J. Abrams’ mysterious island and its residents look absolutely amazing in HD and now fans can catch up with the first two seasons of “Lost”.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0 There are a few franchises that simply do TV on DVD better than others - “The Simpsons,” “24,” and, of course, “Lost” stand among the best. With fantastic special features and gorgeous transfers, these shows aren’t just documents of a program’s original broadcast, they stand on their own and enhance the show instead of just giving viewers an opportunity to watch it again.
The first four season releases of “Lost” have been among the most acclaimed in the history of standard DVD
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adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Explosive New Poster For ‘The Hurt Locker’
12 June 2009 12:06 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
Last week we reported on some new clips and images from the upcoming action-war film, The Hurt Locker. Having been showed in other countries around the world as far back as April last year, the film is just this month making it’s way to the Us. Everything we’ve seen from it so far has looked great, and today we have a brand new poster for it that just adds to that list.
The new Hurt Locker poster is what you would aptly describe as, “explosive, intense, exciting,” and any other number of descriptive words of that sort that you can think of. Check it out below:
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Poster for 'The Hurt Locker'
I like that the poster is simultaneously chaotic and yet still seems simple somehow: Simple in that it just shows what looks like a scene right out of the movie, chaotic in that,
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Ross Miller
New Poster for ‘The Hurt Locker’ Now Online
12 June 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | From The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news
The gang at Film School Rejects are the first out of the gate with the new poster for director Kathryn Bigelow’s (aka the ex Mrs. Jim Cameron) film The Hurt Locker. The new poster is big, bad, features helicopters and explosions and looks pretty darn cool. If you like the poster, also keep in mind the movie has been nominated for several awards at festivals and according to many critics, is a very good film.
In case you’re not familiar with The Hurt Locker, it follows an elite team of explosive ordinance disposal experts during the final months of their tour in the Iraq war. Things don’t go quite as expected, of course, as the team deals with new challenges, new conflicts and a new leader, in the form of the excellent Jeremy Renner. The film also features Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lilly, Guy Pearce, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty.
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Chris Ullrich
Tater Tops 2009: Who's Your Drama Queen?
11 June 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news
Today's Tater Tops category is for the best dramatic actresses, or as we call them, Drama Queens! And the nominees for the Golden Tater are... • Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights: Tami Taylor is the truth. • Evangeline Lilly, Lost: Evie killed it as Aaron's heartsick mama Kate, a once-troubled character who chose to finally make some decisions that were both good and selfless. • Katherine Heigl, Grey's Anatomy: Heigl carried Izzie through her cancer diagnosis and treatment with great nuance and grace. • Elizabeth Mitchell, Lost: Mitchell conveys more emotion with her eyes than most actresses get across in their whole careers. • Leighton...
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trailer break: ‘The Hurt Locker’
10 June 2009 9:31 AM, PDT | From www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news
I’m real excited about this one, for a couple of reasons. First: Kathryn Bigelow has demonstrated more than once that a chick can make a kickass action movie (Blue Steel, Strange Days, Near Dark) that is also smart and complicated and provocative and offers a new perspective on something we thought we’d heard everything about. Second: Jeremy Renner is awesome, and has been standing on the doorstep of stardom for forever (S.W.A.T., North Country, 28 Weeks Later). What’s more, he actually deserves it: he’s one of those actors who’s totally ingratiating onscreen but never in that supernatural-celebrity way. He’s like Bill Paxton, supremely good at appearing extremely ordinary, while under that lurks a paradoxical power to expose ordinariness as something special. Third: Anthony Mackie, who was pretty much the only thing worth watching in the otherwise embarrassing Notorious. He made Tupac Shakur live in a
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MaryAnn Johanson
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