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When senators play movie critic
I won’t be able to watch “Zero Dark Thirty” until next weekend. Bizarrely, a movie that is become a cause celebre in Washington, D.C., isn’t available yet to residents of the nation’s capital. But you don’t have to have...
Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Entertainment, Movies, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency
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'Zero Dark Thirty' nails it
You know the beginning and you know the end, but it's the way director Kathryn Bigelow tells the middle in her riveting movie "Zero Dark Thirty" that amazed me. I hope you see it. I'm going to see it again. It should win all the awards, for directing,...
Tags: Movies, Police Investigations, Mark Strong, Hunting, Entertainment
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'Zero Dark Thirty's' torture implication prompts Senate inquiry
WASHINGTON — After complaining for weeks that the movie “Zero Dark Thirty” erroneously implies that torture yielded key information in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a trio of senior senators now want to know whether CIA personnel...Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Movies, Police Investigations, Drama (genre), Carl Levin
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a first draft of history ★★★★
To consider what director Kathryn Bigelow has accomplished in "Zero Dark Thirty," imagine the events depicted by the story if they'd been given the "Argo" treatment. Not to take anything away from that rousing true (-ish) story of hostages freed and...
Tags: Edgar Ramirez, Movies, Police Investigations, Ben Affleck, Chris Pratt
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Film Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty Directed by Kathryn Bigelow "You can help yourself by being truthful." "Partial information will be treated as a lie." The CIA interrogators in the stunning new film Zero Dark Thirty keep coming back to these refrains as they do...
Tags: Entertainment, Jason Clarke, Movies, The Hurt Locker (movie), Police Investigations
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On Location: 'Zero Dark Thirty's' compound challenges
First-time feature production designer Jeremy Hindle admits to some dicey feelings while taking director Kathryn Bigelow on an initial walk-through of "Zero Dark Thirty's" key set. But they weren't rookie jitters. "I remember telling her, 'You're...
Tags: Spike Jonze, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Movies, Science and Technology
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Despite controversy, 'Zero Dark Thirty' soars in limited release
The backlash in Washington over "Zero Dark Thirty" didn't reach the box office, as Kathryn Bigelow's CIA thriller got off to an excellent start in limited release. Playing in five theaters, the film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden grossed $410,000...
Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Movies, On the Road (movie), Naomi Watts, Twilight (movie)
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Bring my son, and everyone else's, home from Afghanistan
My soldier son called last month to wish his mother and me a happy Thanksgiving. My iPhone buzzed and there he was, sitting in a gun tower, his smiling face bathed in gauzy infrared light, an M249 machine gun propped at the ready behind him. For...
Tags: Taliban, Holidays, NATO, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces
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'Zero Dark Thirty': Why the fabrication?
The critical acclaim for the new Kathryn Bigelow movie "Zero Dark Thirty" has renewed the debate on the efficacy of torture. The movie dramatizes the decade-long effort to find and eventually kill Osama bin Laden. In a riveting opening section, the film...
Tags: Movies, George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Philosophy, Entertainment
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Letters: The 'real' story on torture
Re "Senators say Bin Laden film is off base," Dec. 20 The trailers for "Zero Dark Thirty" tell us we will see the "real" story of Osama bin Laden's killing and that the film is "based on firsthand accounts of actual events." Audiences are led to believe...Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Ottawa Senators
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CIA director wades into controversy over 'Zero Dark Thirty'
In unusual move, the acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, has stepped into the controversy over the accuracy of the new film "Zero Dark Thirty." A bipartisan trio of senators -- John McCain, Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin -- have complained in...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Police Investigations, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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Did 'Zero Dark Thirty' filmmakers get torture right? [Poll]
When it comes to “Zero Dark Thirty,” there’s been a lot written about the CIA and torture—whether it looked in real life the way it does on screen, whether it was effective, whether it was ethical. As we’ve been reporting...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Central Intelligence Agency, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), John McCain
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