Kathryn Bigelow, the director of Netflix thriller House of Dynamite, which depicts government officials responding to a nuclear strike on the US, has responded to criticism by the Pentagon over the accuracy of its defence systems.

Speaking alongside writer Noah Oppenheim to the Hollywood Reporter , the Oscar-winning film-maker defended the film, saying: “I just state the truth. In this piece, it’s all about realism and authenticity.” A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback Read more

Bigelow compared the film with her previous dramas Zero Dark Thirty and Hurt Locker, calling them “work[s] of fiction … that lean in hard on realism”.

In the film, ground-based interceptor missiles, launched from Alaska, fail to st

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