Nuclear Anxiety, That Staple of 1980s Cinema, Is Back

After the Cold War ended, our terror of nuclear war faded from the screen. Now it’s resurgent — and more fatalistic than ever ...
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This Movie Makes Nuclear War Feel Disturbingly Possible

In Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A House of Dynamite, the clock is ticking. The film’s fictional president of the United States has less than 20 minutes and very little information to decide whether or ...
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This 42-year-old war movie still has the funniest end of the world moment

The war movie that ends with one of the funniest end-of-the-world moments arrived 42 years ago, and it still is a biting ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Box office bombs: What I learned watching 20 nuclear films in a month

One of the climactic moments in A House of Dynamite is a friendly reminder. Captain Olivia Walker (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is in the White House Situation Room where, moments earlier, her team ...
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Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and right) about nuclear war

This essay contains spoilers for the film A House of Dynamite. In the opening minutes of Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, the unthinkable happens — a single nuclear warhead is ...
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Roger Ebert hailed Denzel Washington's Crimson Tide as 'a rare kind of war movie'

Denzel Washington is one of the greatest modern actors, and his submarine war movie, Crimson Tide, was raved about by Roger ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

‘A House of Dynamite’: Bigelow’s latest thriller shows why nuclear bombs are only part of the danger

Kathryn Bigelow is no stranger to tense, realistic, political thrillers. Her 2008 film, The Hurt Locker, is a dark exploration of the psychology of bomb-disarming soldiers during the Iraq War. The ...