To Americans who still felt like they were the good guys after swaggering to the rescue in the Second World War, Dr Strangelove must have felt like a brutal kick in the nuts. The portrait painted in ...
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about nuclear weapons, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Released on January 29, 1964, ...
“It remains as outrageously prankish, juvenile, and derisive as ever,” writes David Denby in the New Yorker magazine’s blog. He’s referring to a true monument of 1960s nuclear-paranoid culture, ...