The true story of how a group of wimen brought down a powerful man in the American media world is told  in a slightly heightened version of the events in Jay Roach’s #MeToo inspired drama Bombshell. Starring Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie and Nicole Kidman, the film focuses on the scandal that rocked Fox News in 2016, and which saw its former CEO, the infamous Roger Ails, accused of decades long sexual misconduct against several female employees at the network. 

With his apparent obsession with identikit pretty blonde conservative female anchors, Fox News former CEO Roger Ails (John Lithgow at his brilliant best) cornered the right wing news market by giving his predominately white male conservative audiences exactly what they came for.  But few knew that Ails used his position at the station not only to recruit the prettiest girls for the job, but also to debase these women and strip them of their dignity in the most humiliating way.

When she is called upon to moderate the first Republican presidential debate in 2015, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly (Theron) becomes an overnight figure of hate for Donald Trump and his supporters who accuse her of bias.

Amidst a war of words between the presenter and the would-be 45th president of the United States, Kelly is enraged when she is ordered by Ails to go easy on the presidential front runner so as to not upset the station’s viewers.

Then, after months of acrimonious relations with Ails, former Fox and Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson (Kidman) is unceremoniously fired from her job and told in no uncertain terms that she is coming across as too liberal in her middle-age. Soon Carlson, Kelly and fresh faced young Bill O’Reilley show researcher Kayla Pospisil (Robbie) find that they have far more in common than their shiny blonde hair and wide smiles.

This is a handsomely made, timely and genuinely engaging story that exposes the abuse of power at the very top of an organisation.