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It’s that time again. My favorite time of the month. The second Wednesday, when I get to take over the big house at the Classic Cinemas Lake Theater in Oak Park , pick a movie I love, put it on the biggest screen possible, introduce it, and watch it the way it deserves to be seen. And now, on top of all that, these screenings have become book-signing nights too, which still kind of blows my mind. So yes, you can come see the movie, you can come talk movies with me, and you c

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