These days, there are so many reasons to wake up in the middle of the night, bathed in your own cold sweat: the erosion of basic civil liberties, the rising tide of authoritarian rule (and lack of a rapid-response political resistance), the increasing number of goon squads conspicuously showing up in American cities, the sustained popularity of Love Is Blind. …
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Anthony Ramos plays a major at an Alaskan missile outpost in A House of Dynamite. Eros Hoagland/Netflix hide caption toggle caption Eros Hoagland/Netflix If you were born after Hiroshima, you’ve spent your whole life seeing — or at least knowing of — movies about the atomic bomb. From the ruthless ’60s satire Dr. Strangelove to the ’80s TV sensation The …
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Eight years since her last feature, Kathryn Bigelow returns with an unrelenting chokehold thriller so controlled, kinetic and unsettlingly immersive that you stagger out at the end of it wondering if the world will still be intact. Though it’s less a war film than a drama about the aggressive threat of war, A House of Dynamite is very much of …
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Kathryn Bigelow and Netflix have debuted A House of Dynamite at the Venice Film Festival this evening, marking the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s first feature in eight years. The nuclear thriller opens as an unattributed missile is launched at the United States. As a result, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. The movie stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, …
Read More »VENICE, Italy (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow tackles geopolitics in her new film “A House of Dynamite,” which has its world premiere on Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival. The film is about an imminent missile strike on the U.S., from an unknown aggressor, and how the White House responds. “I grew up in an era when hiding under your school …
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