The secretary of war’s plea for discipline collapses into its opposite—a demand for wanton violence and mayhem ...

The Oscar-winning director’s latest is an expansive, explosive drama with a presidential Idris Elba and stealthy relevance.

Although it's packed to the gills with fine actors — among them Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Tracy Letts and Jared Harris — ...

It is no wonder the interceptors fail in the film. This is an accurate portrayal of what is likely to happen in a crisis.

One of the most iconic moments in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film 'The Shining' is when Jack Torrance enters Room 237. But ...

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow’s new Netflix film. It’s ...

But hey, he was also good at directing epic movies, and they're kind of the opposite of psychological dramas, at least usually. Like, broadly, one wants to be about big things happening on a scale ...

In honor of the release of Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear war thriller A House of Dynamite, we've ranked 12 of the best nuclear ...

The prospect of a third World War is terrifying, but it can make for an entertaining movie or TV show. It's not the cheeriest ...

Mark Rutte became secretary general of NATO despite having no military experience. He is however a combatant in the holy war against social welfare in Europe. One glance at Rutte’s actual record ...

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Welcome to a bonus edition of the War Room. On top of your regular dispatches from Shashank, I’ll be writing an edition, every month, all about military history. I have been a correspondent for The ...