INTERVIEWS: “HURT LOCKER” STARS RENNER AND MACKIE
Last week I conducted a Q&A in New York City with the actors Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie following a SAG screening of Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” (Summit, 6/26, trailer), the suspenseful drama about an elite Army bomb squad serving in Iraq — and likely best picture nominee — in which they both star. From preparing my ques

INTERVIEW: MICHELLE MONAGHAN (“TRUCKER”)
Can you identify the actor who might well receive a lead acting nomination this year for portraying a character who (a) wants no long-term ties to people or possessions, (b) prefers one-and-done dealings and sex over meaningful relationships, (c) can’t bear to stay in any one place for too long, and, above all, (d) only feels alive when on the move? If you named George Clooney in “Up in the Air” you’d be only half correct, b

THIS WEEK’S PROJECTIONS
BEST PICTURE Projected Nominees [1] “Invictus” (Warner Brothers, 12/11, trailer)

INTERVIEWS: JOE AND ZOOEY TALK “500 DAYS OF SUMMER”
Last Sunday, I met with the up-and-coming actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in the bowels of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, surrounded by art from Tim Burton’s new exhibit, to discuss their film “500 Days of Summer” (Fox Searchlight, 7/17, trailer), a romantic-dramedy that was one of this summer’s surprise hits and is n

A BREAKDOWN OF THE TOP GOLDEN GLOBE CONTENDERS
Best Picture (Drama) “An Education” “Avatar” “Bright Star” “The Hurt Locker” “Inglourious Basterds” “Invictus” “The Last Station” “The Lovely Bones” “Precious” “A Single Man” “Star Trek” “Up in the Air” Best Picture (Musical