Last weekend I headed to Picturehouse Central, here in London, which is basically the one place you can reliably catch Netflix's movies when it briefly puts them in cinemas. It doesn't do that very often, of course, but those films it aims to give awards consideration to need to be released for eligibility reasons, so they get limited runs. I watched A House of Dynamite, the Kathryn Bigelow thriller that you can now watch on Netflix in the comfort of your own home, and came away fairly stunned.
Bigelow is a really interesting filmmaker, and her military movies have been conversation-starters for ages, not least the superb, nuanced The Hurt Locker, which won her the Oscar for Best Director. So, the fact that she can do the same sort of ground-level stuff in a more situation room-esque setting isn't a huge surprise.
