Nuclear war and the movies

Survivors of nuclear attack in Mick Jackson's Threads (1984) face nuclear winter and the end of modern society

20 years after the BBC commissioned and then suppressed The War Game, Peter Watkins’ devastating depiction of a nuclear attack on England, the Corporation produced Mick Jackson’s Threads, an even more powerful film on the theme. Synapse has released Threads on an impressive new Blu-ray.

Blasts from the past

Thorold Dickinson

Claude Berri’s Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources (1986): Criterion Blu-ray review

Classic Howard Hawks on Blu-ray

Criterion Blu-ray review: Harold Lloyd’s Speedy (1928)

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