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House of Dynamite screenwriter Noah Oppenheim has answered the Pentagon after it contended his Netflix thriller, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, inaccurately portrays how U.S. defense systems react to an incoming nuclear missile attack. “We respectfully disagree,” Oppenheim told MSNBC’s The Weekend program after the Pentagon in an Oct. 16 internal memo argued U.S. missile interceptors “have displayed a 100 percent …

Noah Oppenheim, the writer of Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear-missile thriller House of Dynamite has responded to complaints from the Pentagon over the accuracy of its depiction of the US’s defence systems, saying he “respectfully disagree[s]”. In an internal memo dated 16 October obtained by Bloomberg, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said: “The fictional interceptors in the movie miss their target and …

The U.S. Department of Defense and Netflix are in a clash over how accurate the streamer’s nuclear disaster drama A House of Dynamite truly is. Highlighting a specific major plot point in the Kathryn Bigelow-directed movie, an October 16 memo from Pentagon officials was produced with the intent to address “false assumptions” from the film, which just dropped on the …

THE WORK BEHIND THE PRIZE: László Krasznahorkai has been called a “master of the apocalypse” whose more than 20 books combine a bleak outlook on life with humor and linguistic inventiveness. Some of his novels consist of just one long sentence. STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant …

According to a longtime Illinois beat writer, Saturday’s game vs. Ohio State might be the biggest game Illinois has hosted in over 100 years. Bob Asmussen, who’s covered Illinois football for The News-Gazette for 37 years, says there’s massive excitement in Champaign for this weekend’s matchup as the 17th-ranked Illini welcome the top-ranked Buckeyes to town. Despite their stunning 53-point loss to Indiana, …

Vogue journalist Wendell Steavenson said she sensed there was trouble in paradise for Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban as she reported on the actress for the magazine’s November cover. In the Vogue cover story published Wednesday, Steavenson recalled interviewing Kidman, 58, in late August, several weeks before the Babygirl actress filed for divorce from Urban. “During our conversations I had …

When Sega and Creative Assembly’s Alien: Isolation launched in 2014, I was deputy editor at Official Xbox Magazine. I remember getting the review copy from our contributor Alex “Game Over, Man” Dale, and asking him how long the game was. 35-40 hours, he said. WTF, I said. I can’t remember how Alex responded – possibly his transmission ended with a …

This Thriller Writer Took on a Tech Giant. And Won.  The New York Times Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors  AP News Harvard Professors May Be Eligible for Payments in $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement  The Harvard Crimson US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement  Reuters Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag  John Scalzi’s Whatever Source …

Before each Ohio State game, Eleven Warriors catches up with a media member who covers the opposing team to get his or her perspective on the Buckeyes’ upcoming opponent. 3-1 Oct. 4, 2025 – 7:30 PM ET Ohio Stadium Columbus, OH Ahead of Minnesota’s trip to Columbus, Gophers beat writer Randy Johnson of the Star Tribune joins us to share what he’s seen …

When travel writer Rick Steves, 70, switched insurance providers, he visited a new doctor, who suggested Steves undergo a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Steves agreed. “He called me two days later and said, ‘You’ve got a serious problem. You’ve got a PSA of 55 and you’ve got prostate cancer,’” Steves tells TODAY.com. “It was all hands on deck to change …