Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster in The Messenger.By John ThomasonIt continues to appear as if The Hurt Locker is 2009’s sleeper candidate for top awards stardom, and I couldn’t be happier for director Kathryn Bigelow – not just because she made such a great, deserving film but because she helped reorient the war drama into more intensely personal, less ideologically pandering … [Read more...]