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As Juliette Lewis prepares for a UK tour, she talks about her transformation from Hollywood star to raw, bluesy rocker with new album Terra Incognita.

Kathryn Bigelow and Nora Ephron have been added to the roster of honorees that will be feted at 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards on Oct.

Let the award season begin! The 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood awards have announced that Director Kathryn Bigelow will be honored with the "Hollywood Director Award", Screenwriter Nora Ephron will be presented with the "Hollywood Screenwriter Award", Disney / Pixar's UP will get the "Hollywood Animation Award" and Scott Farrar , ...

UNIQUE: "I ... like something that's always a little amiss," Juliette Lewis says.

There may come a day when no one registers astonishment that a woman could direct a movie like "The Hurt Locker" -- which is to say, a churningly suspenseful thriller with keen insights into the social and psychological dynamics of young men in wartime.

She's played quite a few high-energy freaks for Hollywood, but none of her silver screen characters can prepare audiences for the over-the-top ferociousness Juliette Lewis unleashes when fronting her band, the New Romantiques.

By STEWART SMITH Entertainment Writer The Kilgore Film Festival has begun its 11th season with the screening of "The Hurt Locker." Directed by Kathryn Bigelow , "The Hurt Locker" is a film about a bomb disposal squad deployed by the U.S. military in Iraq.

BUFS proudly kicks off the Fall 2009 season with The Hurt Locker - a "full-throttle body shock of a movie," according to Variety's Scott Foundas.

Headed by Sam Easterson, the Museum of Animal Perspectives project involves the placement of tiny cameras atop various animals -everything from scorpions to frogs to lambs to wolves - and documenting short snippets of them going about their daily lives: Be warned: it's highly addictive fare.* You might very well lose hours watching footage of ...

Enjoy the Caribbean sounds of soca, calypso and salsa, at Europe's biggest street party.

War is hell, the movies tell us. But what kind of hell? And are there people who prefer hell as a working environment - " all that heat, all that adrenalising anxiety, the daily danger of IPDs - " to boring old, placid old heaven? The Hurt Locker a ...a ...a ...a ...a Kathryn Bigelow Broken Embraces a ...a ...a ...a ...a Pedro AlmodA3var Funny ...

Former Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval will be hitting the road next month for the first time in eight years on the heels of her forthcoming album, Through the Devil Softly , due September 29 on Nettwerk.

Golden Globe-winning actress Angela Bassett was often associated with notable African-American cultural figures like Rosa Parks, Betty Shabazz, and Tina Turner, all of whom she portrayed on the big and small screens to.... Golden Globe-winning actress Angela Bassett was often associated with notable African-American cultural figures like Rosa ...

William Skidelsky: Kathryn Bigelow, the movie director who made her name with Point Break, is back after a long fallow period and her latest movie is set to bring her fresh acclaim Kathryn Bigelow has a thing about climbing mountains.

Whenever a film about war doesn't explicitly address the causes of war, or its morality, some critics will say that film "avoids politics." But of course any film about war is unavoidably political, both in what it says and what it doesn't. Kathryn Bigelow's lean, trenchant drama The Hurt Locker begins with an epigram by journalist Chris Hedges, ...

Whenever a film about war doesn't explicitly address the causes of war, or its morality, some critics will say that film "avoids politics." But of course any film about war is unavoidably political, both in what it says and what it doesn't. Kathryn Bigelow's lean, trenchant drama The Hurt Locker begins with an epigram by journalist Chris Hedges, ...

In varying states of reality and various levels of pulp, the films of Kathryn Bigelow wrestle with what it means to be a warrior.

MPAA rating: R Running time: 2:11 Now showing at the Drexel, Gateway and Lennox 24 theaters The Hurt Locker is a serious war movie set in Iraq.

As an action flick - which it is, among other things - Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is like the anti- Crank .