Bombshell

Bombshell (2019) is Jay Roach's drama you can watch online on iFILM. It draws on what tore through Fox News in 2016, when several women decided to say out loud that the man running the network had pressured them for years.

Three women, three different stakes. Prime-time anchor Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) weighs what the truth will cost her career. Host Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) files the first suit against Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) and waits to see if anyone will stand beside her. Kayla (Margot Robbie), a young composite character, has just joined the company and learns fast what a promotion can demand of her. Roach shoots it almost like reportage, the camera prowling office corridors while the women break the fourth wall and talk straight into the lens.

Kazu Hiro's makeup turned Theron into Kelly so exactly that it won an Oscar. Around them sit Kate McKinnon, Allison Janney, and Malcolm McDowell as Rupert Murdoch. The film is less about one scandal than about the machinery of fear that keeps people quiet. Stream Bombshell (2019) online on iFILM.