VICE MEDIA - The 80s Cult Classic Envisioning the Final Hour Before Nuclear Apocalypse
In this episode of Future Shock, Motherboard speaks to Steve De Jarnatt, writer and director of Miracle Mile, a "missiles in the air" doomsday sci-fi thriller from 1988 set in Los Angeles, as the country preps for nuclear annihilation. More than just a period flashback to cold war paranoia, this cult film feels eerily prescient of the current tone of nuclear escalation between North Korea and the US, and a warning to the future.