Vice

Vice (2018) is Adam McKay's satirical drama, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Christian Bale all but vanishes into the role of Dick Cheney, having packed on more than forty pounds and shaved his head for the part.

The film traces Cheney from a hard-drinking Wyoming kid who nearly flunked out of Yale to the most powerful vice president the country has ever seen. Beside him stands his wife Lynne (Amy Adams), the engine behind his climb, with Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld and Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush. Rather than a tidy biography, McKay takes apart the machinery of how a quiet operator who rarely raised his voice reshaped the White House around himself.

The director of The Big Short again turns dense politics into dark comedy, leaning on a sly narrator and odd tricks like fake end credits dropped into the middle of the story. The makeup on Bale, Adams and Carell took home an Oscar. Stream Vice (2018) online on iFILM.