The Day After, Threads, Testament, and Special Bulletin (review)
It’s easy to forget today how close global nuclear annihilation genuinely seemed in the 1980s.
It’s easy to forget today how close global nuclear annihilation genuinely seemed in the 1980s.

But if you knew when we as a species were going to buy the farm, how would you spend your final hours? That’s the question Canadian filmmaker Don McKellar asks in Last Night, which he wrote, directed, and stars in. Sort of the flip side of movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact, Last Night focuses not on the heroes trying to save the planet from certain doom but instead peeks in at how ordinary people are facing the end of the world.