“Within the framework of nuclear strategy” is the caveat—and the underlying topic of this movie. Sitting in his airplane, mulling over the book of laminated pages detailing the various attack options, the president moans to Gen. Brady, “This is insanity.” The general replies, “No, Mr. President, it’s reality.”

A new thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow raises key questions about presidential authority, global security and nuclear deterrence as we sit on the brink of another world war.

They’ve obviously never been tested in a real-life, all-out thermonuclear attack, but the goal of this facility is continuity of government, ensuring that our democratic leaders survive to govern whatever survives the attack amid smoldering radioactive ash.

And if our government struggles to manage even long-term domestic issues — like what's currently happening with the housing policy — how could it manage an instant national emergency?

Kathryn Bigelow is back. The filmmaker behind high-octane action pic (and not-so-secret love story) "Point Break," underrated Y2K thriller "Strange Days," the Osama bin Laden manhunt movie "Zero Dark Thirty," and more, hasn't helmed a feature in almost a ...

“Bodyguard of Lies,” a documentary examining the deceit that drove the longest war in American history, takes its title from a Winston Churchill line: “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”