I was at the Venice Premiere for Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker in September 2008. Knowing nothing going in, I was absolutely blown away—pun intended—by the crude portrayal of war, its lasting psychological impact and I was introduced to a young new hopeful actor who today we all know as Jeremy Renner. A House of Dynamite was a jarring, eerie and similar experience for me. All I knew going in is that I absolutely love Kathryn Bigelow’s movies, her dry, no BS and tense directing style always brings the movie home for me. Her choice of subject matter—PTSD for The Hurt Locker, the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty, the 1967 riots in Detroit—has recently been stark, uncomfortable topics and I didn’t know if this would a thriller, espionage or maybe an action movie. All I knew was the director and that Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson—both of whom I really like—were in it.

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