Kathryn Bigelow should really make more movies. She's directed some terrific action flicks (Near Dark, Point Break, Strange Days), but she seems to disappear from filmmaking for long periods of time -- her last movie was 2002's K-19: The Widowmaker. Bigelow's upcoming project is a drama about the Iraq war called The Hurt Locker, and it was announced today that the film will star Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie . "Who, who, and who?" you might be asking yourself. Renner recently starred in the pretty sweet 28 Weeks Later. Geraghty has done the war movie thing before, he played Fergus in the underrated Jarhead. And Mackie starred in Half Nelson and what I consider Spike Lee's only bad movie -- She Hate Me. "He Who Must Not Be Named" Ralph Fiennes and "He Who Can't Remember His Name" Guy Pearce will have cameos in the film.

The script was written by Mark Boal, a former Playboy journalist -- see! there's good articles in there! -- and was inspired "by true events and recently declassified information." The film will follow "an elite Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team in present-day Baghdad that fights an onslaught of bombs and snipers." Renner will play the team leader. Mackie, Geraghty, and Pearce will play team members, although if Pearce just has a cameo I'd imagine he doesn't last long. Fiennes will play a mercenary. Says Boal: "The idea is that it's the first movie about the Iraq War that purports to show the experience of the soldiers. We wanted to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you can't see on CNN, and I don't mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. I just mean the news doesn't actually put photographers in with units that are this elite." He adds, "It's really exciting for me, coming out of the world of journalism, to have a movie come out about a conflict while the conflict is still going on." Hell, at the rate things are going, they could delay the release of Hurt Locker ten years and it'd still be going on.

Just as Lindsay Lohan says: "I Know Who Killed Me," I know you are all anxious to see pictures from the film. Right? Well, People just released the first look at the film, but it is pretty G-rated fare. We've got a poster and two pictures. None are torturific or stripperific. In case you've missed word on her latest film, which is entirely possible due to all the other stories that fly around that girl on a daily basis, here's the lowdown: Lohan plays a stripper who is kidnapped and tortured before being released. After her ordeal, she claims she's someone else, and plot descriptions are sure to point out that it could be post-traumatic stress, or something else.

Oh, and of course, she gets her legs lopped off -- all in Lohan's quest to be a serious, Oscar-winning actress. Never mind the fact that she passed up a number of films that probably would've given her more cred. Never mind the fact that stripper torture films aren't usually considered to be serious fare. Eh, that's all irrelevant. Maybe she's just looking to balance news about her pole-dancing lessons with more serious chatter. But back to the images. We've got a funky-looking poster that sports a blue rose merged with her face and a trailing, single drop of blood, Lohan coming out from behind a red curtain and a shot with Brian Geraghty, who plays her boyfriend. There notable thing here is that he's giving Lohan a blue rose, so that has to fit into the bigger picture somehow, since it is on the poster as well.

So, there you have it. Lohan is the latest in the long line of actresses playing strippers and torture victims, but no money shots are yet available. For once I am kind of happy for her role. Lohan has a tendency to kill some movie mojo, so maybe her being a stripper will slash this unending need to parade them on-screen. Then again, I'm just fooling myself. If Elizabeth Berkeley can't kill the trend, I'm sure it will continue on and on and on.