The Hurt Locker, winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize, is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military#x2019;s unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the world#x2019;s most dangerous places. Three members of the Army#x2019;s elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and each other as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad#x2014;in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear#x2014;protect and save#x2014;but it#x2019;s anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and heart-pounding look at the effects of combat and danger on the human psyche is based on the first-hand observations of journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. These men spoke of explosions as putting you in #x201C;the hurt locker.#x201D;

In PANDORUM, Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point, The Express) and Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, Alpha Dog) join Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down, Twilight), Cung Le (Tekken, Fighting),...