Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" takes the unique "battlefield" horrors of the war in Iraq and their effect on service men and turns the resulting madness both inward and outward with an intensity I've not felt in a film for quite a while. The film follows a trio of short-timers in a bomb squad as they move from one impossibly tense encounter with IEDs or suicide bombers to the next.

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Trap

  M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller, Trap, is mind-bending poser like his previous pictures but not in the same way. The biggest ques...