When it comes to apocalypses, Hollywood has generally been more interested in what happens afterward than the down-and-dirty of the actual event that led to destruction.

From George Miller (Mad Max), to George Romero (Dawn of the Dead), movies are fixated on the brutal antics of the human race after the nuclear holocaust/zombie outbreak/pandemic has somehow blasted earthly landscapes into ravaged wastelands.

Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), rises to the challenge of grappling with the event itself with her film A House of Dynamite, currently streaming on Netflix. At a time when the world is hurtling toward ever greater instability, Bigelow is here with a sober reminder: Guess what? Nuclear annihilation is still on the table.

The crisis? A nuclear missile has been launched under the r

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