Bombshell
Jan 09, 2020
2 minutes
SOPHIE MONKS KAUFMAN
Directed by JAY ROACH
Starring MARGOT ROBBIE CHARLIZE THERON NICOLE KIDMAN
Released 17 JANUARY
s the theme of social justice has become sufficiently topical to bring audiences into cinemas, there has been a glut of films with a single issue as their hook which misrepresent every other political reality, and then hide behind that, directed by Jay Roach of and fame. Brandishing the narrative figleaf of ‘women standing up to a powerful sex offender,’ this piece of hot trash soft-pedals the racist, homophobic, Republican-propaganda-machine that is Fox News, airbrushing the politics of its female news anchors so that they can scan as straightforwad, ass-kicking heroes.
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