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Director Kathryn Bigelow doesn't do 'chick flicks,' but powerful 'masculine' movies, such as her dark new film set during the Iraq war. Manohla Dargis hears why Published Date: 25 June 2009 Kathryn Bigelow, right, and on the set of her latest movie The Hurt Locker, above left. The director's impressive filmography includes her 1987 debut Near Dark, inset, the Jamie Lee Curtis vehicle Blue Steel, left, and, of course, The Hurt Locker, above THE take on Kathryn Bigelow is that she is a great female director of muscular action movies – the kind with big guns, big scenes, big themes and big camera movements, as well as an occasional fist in the face, or a knee to the groin. Sometimes, more simply, she's called a great female director. But here's a radical thought: she is, simply, a great filmmaker. Because, while it is... [read full story]
Global market intelligence firm, Synovate, today released data from a global study on media and advertising that showed seven in ten people across 11 markets cannot live without the internet or would miss it a great deal if it...
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Jeff Chiu AP Vincent Hsieh fills up his vehicle at a gas station in San Francisco, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Energy prices rose Wednesday even as the amount of unused crude, gasoline and natural gas being placed into...
Uniform Advantage, the leading provider of medical scrubs and nursing uniforms online, is now shipping to Canada. Uniform Advantage has been providing the medical industry with comfortable, high-quality nursing scrubs, surgical...
