Kathryn Bigelow - the first woman who won the Best Director OSCAR at the Academy Awards - is back to deliver us her latest tense thriller... but on Netflix. Bigelow's films have had a big impact on me as a film fan since I was an early teen and I've been waiting years for her to finally make a new movie. I - thank god - had the opportunity to see A House of Dynamite in cinemas last week, with it currently running a select cinemas release in the lead-up to it's drop on Netflix on October 24th. This movie's been garnering pretty rave reviews since the it's premiere at the Venice Film Festival... but I'm coming in pretty hot with a slightly controversial opinion on one of Netflix's biggest awards contenders for 2025. Find out more in this review!
A House of Dynamite:
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Written by: Noah Oppenheim
Produced by: Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Oppenheim, Greg Shapiro
Executive Producers: Brian Bell, Sarah Bremmer
Music by: Volker Bertelmann
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd
Edited by: Kirk Baxter
Casting by: Sussane Scheel
Production Design by: Jeremy Hindle
Costume Design by: Sarah Edwards
Cast: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Greta Lee, Jonah Hauer-King, Jason Clarke, Willa Fitzgerald, Malachi Beasley
Synopsis: When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.