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A house of mistakes: what Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ gets radically right—and dangerously wrong—about nuclear war

A House of Dynamite gets so many details wrong that the lessons viewers take from the film will likely be counterproductive, ...
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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 ...
The Atlantic

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 ...
Forbes

Critic Picks: 10 Nuclear War Movies For Your Halloween Watchlist

This weekend brings Halloween holidays, and that means everyone is looking for the best horror movies to watch. For our modern times and , here are 10 nuclear war movies for your Halloween watchlist.
THE WEEK

The 5 best nuclear war movies of all time

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 ...
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How AI might actually start a nuclear war

For as long as AI has existed, humans have had fears around AI and nuclear weapons. And movies are a great example of those fears. Skynet from the Terminator franchise becomes sentient and fires ...