Kathryn Bigelow Doesn’t Mind Pentagon’s Film Criticism

Director Kathryn Bigelow doesn’t mind that the Pentagon is mad at her movie A House of Dynamite — it means the right people are watching. “In a perfect world, culture has the potential to drive policy,” Bigelow told The Hollywood Reporter on October 29. “And if there’s dialogue around the proliferation of nuclear weapons, that is music to my ears, certainly.” The Missile Defense Agency issued an October 16 internal memo that criticized A House of Dynamite for portraying its nuclear missile defenses as only 50 percent effective, which was then leaked to Bloomberg , per an October 25 report. Set in the Pentagon, the film follows government workers who have less than 30 minutes to respond to a nuclear attack before it touches down in Chicago. A House of Dynamite was the No. 1 fi