After the Cold War ended, our terror of nuclear war faded from the screen. Now it’s resurgent — and more fatalistic than ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kathryn Bigelow's white-knuckle nuclear thrillerA House of Dynamite blasts its way to Netflix on October 25, 2025, instantly becoming one of the must-see cinematic home-viewing events of the year.

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 ...

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.” ...

SPOILER ALERT: This is a nuclear posture review, not a movie review, of Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, and discusses in detail the realism or lack thereof of specific scenarios and plot lines ...

Some praised realistic elements like the depiction of the White House situation room. But others said parts of the plot didn't ring true. Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...