TV Club #6 Threads

Contagion hits cinema screens this week (you can check out my review here), heralded as the 'feel-bad movie of the year' with its grim portrayal of global pandemic caused by Gwyneth Paltrow (I may have over-simplified that slightly).

For this week's TV Club, we head back to 1984 for another film that will have you hitting the supermarket to stock up on tinned goods and batteries as we take a look at the apocalyptic tale of Threads which a gives a worryingly convincing depiction of nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield.

Like Contagion, Threads tells stories of personal tragedy alongside the unfolding global devastation, but unlike Soderbergh's effort the misery never gives up and there really is no light at the end of the harrowing 2 hours.