When director Kathryn Bigelow's "Strange Days" hit theaters in 1995, the film was marketed as a cyberpunk tech-noir thriller set in the year 1999, right at the cusp of the millennium. Although "Strange Days" delivered significantly more than it promised, the film was a box-office dud and received incredibly mixed reviews from critics — a combination that nearly derailed Bigelow's career. Apart from directing, Bigelow honed in on the gritty socio political themes that run through the film,...