Since, The Hurt Locker is this year’s underdog for the Best Picture at the Oscars, Maria and I thought we’d give it a try this past weekend.

First impressions, going into this film, was that it was going to be a war movie set in modern-day Iraq. I pictured a kind of tactical-based combat movie, with a mix of interesting characters and meaningful drama say, like, Saving Private Ryan. Now Saving Private Ryan is good in its own right, but it’s been done. So I didn’t have incredibly high hopes for this film. But instead, The Hurt Locker was quite different from my expectations and quite good.

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The Gathering Storm (2002) and Into the Storm (2009) are the first and second parts of an HBO-produced made-for-television movie series on the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. While they’re two very separate movies, with entirely different casts, produced seven years apart I think a review of them, in contrast and comparison, is the best approach to take.
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