Kathryn Bigelow – ETB Screenwriting

#ThinkpieceThursday – Where are the Women?

#ThinkpieceThursday – Split Best Director

#TypesTuesday – Zero Dark Thirty and Power of Conscience

#TypesTuesday – The Dark Side of Power of Conscience

#TypesTuesday – The Hurt Locker & Power of Idealism

#TypesTuesday – The Hurt Locker & The Power of Idealism are an Oscar worthy combination

Kathryn Bigelow at the DGA

The reception for Kathryn Bigelow at the DGA was lovely and the program was heart-felt and was a wonderful tribute to an amazing woman. But I couldn’t help remembering a Women in Hollywood article I had read the week before. It recounts the rather dismal reality in the aftermath to Bigelow’s stunning achievement.

Two Oscar Contenders – Up In The Air and The Hurt Locker

Two of the most talked about characters in Oscar-nominated pictures this year are emotionally damaged men deployed to handle bombs in people’s lives. Their approaches to this assignment are very different.