A House of Dynamite Director : Kathryn Bigelow Cert : 15A Starring : Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris, Anthony Ramos, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, Gabriel Basso, Jason Clarke, Tracy Letts Running Time : 1 hr 52 mins
Humans have always been skilled at the denial of death. We would have struggled to build cathedrals or write medieval epics without it. Over the past 40 years or so that tendency has taken on a puzzling capacity to push the threat of nuclear war into the mental shadows. Familiarity has bred not contempt but a complacent forgetting.
Kathryn Bigelow’s hugely stressful new film is here to remind us t
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