The arrival of director Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated nuclear war thriller “A House of Dynamite” (in theaters and on Netflix now) heralds the return of a long-forgotten genre: the cautionary ...

Kathryn Bigelow's terrifying new thriller "A House of Dynamite" gives us a minute-by-minute breakdown of how various people working for the U.S. government might react if a nuclear missile was on its ...

A few weeks ago, after the release of A House of Dynamite on the 2025 movie schedule, a colleague recommended Annie Jacobson’s 2024 non-fiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario and explained how Denis ...

Fans of Kathryn Bigelow's paranoid Netflix thriller A House of Dynamite will likely appreciate movies like The Day After and ...

Imagine a nuclear warhead is hurtling straight toward us, with only 18 minutes to respond before a major city is obliterated. The movie was conceived by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, who has ...

On the morning of Oct. 10, 1983, in the rocky hills of Camp David, President Ronald Reagan was treated to an early screening of one of the year’s most anticipated films, “The Day After,” a two-hour ...

A new era is born.

Generation-defining nuclear-war movies seem to come in pairs. Stanley Kubrick’s bleak satire “Dr. Strangelove” arrived in 1964, the same year as Sidney Lumet’s even bleaker Cold War drama “Fail Safe.” ...

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I won’t ruin “A House of Dynamite,” a new film from justly famed director Kathryn Bigelow, by saying whether a single warhead destroys Chicago, having been launched by an unknown actor from the waters ...