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Kathryn Bigelow is one of my favorite filmmakers of all time. Period. I think her work is stunning. She’s an artist, a technician, a visual stylist, and a total badass who has worked in the kinetic, muscular, testosterone-heavy world of action and thriller cinema for most of her career, a genre long dominated by male directors, and she didn’t just step into it, she detonated it. This is not the kind of career you’d normally associate with a female filmmaker, which is of cour

Katherine Bigelow, Me, Jamie Lee Curtis. 1990. I was just a bit happy. Jamie Lee Curtis is one of my favorite actresses of all time. No question. Period. End of sentence. She was my first massive crush as a teenager. I’m talkin’ about full-blown, head-over-heels, heart-goes-thump-thump level stuff, from the moment I laid eyes on her in Halloween  in 1978 when I was 13 years old. I mean, come on. The minute she stepped on screen as Laurie Strode, I was done. Cooked. Smoked. H