{"id":3022,"date":"2013-06-09T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T07:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2013-08-28T06:58:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T05:58:14","slug":"zero-dark-thirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2013\/06\/09\/zero-dark-thirty\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Dark Thirty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gripping, tense follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/features\/2009\/08\/24\/the-hurt-locker-interview-with-kathryn-bigelow\/\"><I>The Hurt Locker<\/I><\/a> (2009), Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s <i>Zero Dark Thirty<\/i> (2012) dramatises the decade-long hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Based on the taut but strikingly detailed script by her long-term research collaborator and former war reporter Mark Boal, the film generated significant buzz on all fronts around it&#8217;s theatrical release earlier this year &#8211; and some controversy along with it. Joe Decie revisits the unsettling thriller, released in the UK on DVD\/Blu-ray + UV Copy on 10 June 2013.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3023\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zero-dark-review.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3022]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zero-dark-review.jpg?resize=474%2C883\" alt=\"zero-dark-review\" width=\"474\" height=\"883\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zero-dark-review.jpg?resize=594%2C1106 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zero-dark-review.jpg?resize=268%2C500 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zero-dark-review.jpg?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Strip Review by Joe Decie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">More information on Joe Decie can be found <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.joedecie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the DVD\/Blu-ray release of Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s riveting drama, we take an illustrated look at the film.<br \/>\n<I><B>Comic Strip Review by Joe Decie<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12,3],"tags":[133,652,653],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-comic-strip-reviews","category-dvds-and-blu-rays","tag-american-cinema","tag-kathryn-bigelow","tag-the-hurt-locker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-MK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6130,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2015\/12\/20\/ghost-story\/","url_meta":{"origin":3022,"position":0},"title":"Ghost Story","author":"Pam Jahn","date":"December 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"To mark its first ever UK Blu-ray and DVD release, we take an illustrated look at John Irvin's 1981 horror classic. 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