Jason Clarke

This Thursday brings my annual morning of being excited and nervous and telling myself I won’t yell at the TV. And then doing it anyway. That’s right, it’s the Oscar nominations, for a change announced before the Golden Globes, not...

OPENING FRIDAY Zero Dark Thirty  Everyone knows how "Zero Dark Thirty" ends: with the killing of Osama bin Laden in his Pakistani compound by SEAL Team Six.  But it’s how it begins — with the hauntingly effective use of the voices of the...

In both the recently concluded season of Showtime’s “Homeland” and the new film “Zero Dark Thirty,” a young female CIA operative becomes obsessed with tracking an elusive terrorist and nearly destroys herself in the process....

now playing "Django Unchained" (R). A slave turned bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio. TownMall Cinemas (12:50, 4:20, 7:50 p.m.) "Gangster Squad"...

***1/2 (out of four) And that’ll do it for “Argo.” Ben Affleck’s widely praised Oscar contender is plenty entertaining, but its sense of place and investigative detail don’t come within miles of the immersive power of...

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...

"Zero Dark Thirty" does focus on, as the ads insist, "the greatest manhunt in history," but once you've seen this film, a woman — or maybe two — will be on your mind. Following up on her Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker," director Kathryn...

In 2008, the screenwriter Mark Boal sought an appointment with a retired special-forces operator. Boal was researching a movie about the fruitless search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora six years before, and he wanted insight into how U.S....

Three years after "The Hurt Locker" and its director, Kathryn Bigelow, won Oscars, the hunt for Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" is putting its director back into the awards-season conversation. How will academy voters respond? Time for another...

They all talk about the phone calls — Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. What binds them is the relentless prodding they’ve all received from Hollywood’s most bullish fundraiser, Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the fourth-annual...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 6-12, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today A preview of the Golden Globes; Gracie Gold; Charlie Palmer; Marlon Wayans. (N)...

now playing "2016 Obama's America" (PG). Documentary based on Dinesh D'Souza's book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage." TownMall Cinemas (12:45 p.m.) "Dredd" (R). In the future, a tough cop serves as judge, jury and executioner. With Karl Urban, Olivia...