Atomic Blondes.
108 Mins. Starring: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Rob Delaney, Mark Duplass, Richard Kind, Malcolm McDowell, Alice Eve, Allison Janney & John Lithgow. Director: Jay Roach.
Billie Eilish's cool as hell megahit 'Bad Guy' (that's been in everything from the "what if Superman was a prick", 'Brightburn' anti-superhero movie to the soundtrack of every radio station you've tuned into) and the bass beat of the bridge haunts an elevator like 'No Time To Die' the 18 years youngest ever will do the next James Bond theme, which I don't want to hear until I see the iconic titles for the first time in cinema next month. All whilst three anchors of the Fox News rebellion against the harassment of toxic masculinity on the Times Up eve of the Me Too movement stand together for the first time in a movie. Hitting the floor like the 'Heat' of 'The Godfather' of 'The Irishman' Al Pacino and Robert De Niro meeting for the first time on screen an hour and a half into that classic, cat and mouse Michael Mann action movie. But there's no cats or mice here (even if there's a fair few rats...but no sighting for three months in this Manhattan office in the heart of New York's Big rotten Apple...so yay!). Just three queens this N.Y.C. borough side of Queens fixing their own crowns before reaching out for each other like fixing your oxygen mask on an airplane before assisting others. They just want to breathe before these blondes go atomic like Theron's 'The Villainess' meets 'John Wick' knocking down the Berlin Wall with the ghetto blaster best of the greatest soundtrack the 80's had to offer the world for that action redefining classic. And side eye glancing at each other, holding their composed stage with caution, side-by-side they want to know which side they stand on. Let alone where do they get off. As a thorough Theron looks as unrecognisable as heroic anchor Megyn Kelly as she did when she won an Oscar. And with another nomination this year the Furiosa forthcoming 'Fast and Furious' star drives towards another 'Monster' performance that shows just how powerful she is. It's a shame for the big-three Academy nominations this 'Bombshell' scandal got this year the only one they copped was for Best Make Up and Hairstyling. Not that there's nothing wrong with that category and as well deserved as it was it just feels just typical. This movie deserves more as one of the best of the year has so much to it. This like the women it stands for all over the world is much more than the make-up and hairstyles that mad men try and peddle as a visual medium, were these individuals they objectify have much more upstairs than those suits that actually take up office up there.
Theron. Kidman. Robbie. The Best Actress of this generation. The underrated legend. And the hottest new star around...and we say hottest we're referring to her star power and not how the ruling Aussie alongside another one who influenced her Down Under and the South African looks. And even if Charlize looks almost unrecognisable, the 'Tully' and 'Long Shot', star, doing anything but stereotype staying at home as she runs AT political office is always undeniable. Here introducing us to the first person, fourth wall breaking 'Bombshell' Fox news syndicate like this was the 'Vice' of Adam McKay's 'Big Short' (remember Margot Robbie in a bath? Course you do. Now we can't wait for his 'Showtime' series on the Los Angeles Lakers). She plays the woman that took it to Trump before he became the p#### grabbing d### of a President (but was always that tweeting bully who made the heroic Kelly's life a living hell, whilst seeing nothing wrong with saying that, "it's not rape if it's your spouse" (there are no words for this except f### you!)), perfectly and with not faking a moment decency and urgency for a modern day game changer and advocate for women's right. The 'Big Little Lies' of Nicole Kidman almost look hard to tell like why this absolute icon still doesn't get her due deserves in Hollywood, outside like Theron being one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People. PEOPLE people. Not women. Ladies. Or girls. But people. How she didn't get a Best Supporting Actress nomination-even in a class class-is as unrecognisable to me as why she didn't get one for her unmistakable, noir beat cop, dark 'Destroyer'. That one really didn't look like her. But what's looks got to do with it when behind the make-up in this Hollywood age of CGI on old gangsters you can see the soul of someone as clear as day? Straight out the Fox-hole with a legal suit for the sharks in theirs, Kidman is not kidding. Call her a skirt as you ask others to hike theirs up and give you a twirl and she'll have you by the seat of your pants.
Once upon a time in...Australia and then we have Margot Robbie. Another TIME 100. The 'Once Upon A Time In...Hollywood' and 'The Wolf Of Wall Street' star who dealing with the snapping jaws of more predatory males than Wall Street Gekko lizards is still living her Hollywood moment. With this 'Bombshell' coming out the same time her blonde bombing Harley Quinn finds 'Fantabulous Emancipation' with those 'Birds Of Prey', before another 'Suicide Squad' Summer too. You just can't get enough of her. And with another Academy Award nom, many men may have put the clown make-up of the Joker on (from Oscar winning (not you Jared) Joaquin Phoenix and the late, great, one and only Heath Ledger), but there's only one Harley. But with her own agency here and her composite characters emotional core and arc to this 'Bombshell' this is Margot's most magnificence since her blades of fury in 'I...Tonya'. If Robbie doesn't win an Oscar soon she'll be robbed. And getting her skates on in this all star ensemble picture, her 'Tonya' mother co-star, another unrecognisable Allison Janney scene steals the spare change she gets to work with in 'Trumbo' director Jay Roach's dynamo best picture (and he gave us the De Niro comedy godfather of 'Meet The Parents'. You only have to employ 'The Intern' on Netflix like 'Last Vegas' to see how the mob hit comeback actor is so comfortable in these warm, lovely Sunday movie roles). The same goes for everyone whose part of this news team assemble here. From the 'Friday Night Lights' of Connie Britton, to everyone's favourite X-Force member Peter (Rob Delaney) who looks like he's seen every character actor ad in Hollywood right now ("you're in"!). Just like Mark Duplass devoted husband, 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'Gotham' and 'John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch' star Richard Kind's mad Mayor Rudy Giuliani transformation and a mystery Michael McDowell role we just won't spoil. Even best 'Black Mirror' episode star Alice Eve (OK we will spoil this one...it has been a few months. Blame Japan release dates) is here to take shots at the darkness of her unnecessary 'Star Trek' underwear strip which should have had producers turning around. This film says so much more. Just like 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Ghostbusters' star and funniest person on the planet Kate McKinnon showing so much more to her serious acting range. All whilst being the welcome comic relief scene stealer when everything gets a little too heavy handed, for another more than blonde bombshell. But on another planet like '3rd Rock The Sun' legend John Lithgow piles on the fat suit pounds like he did for his award winning Churchill in Netflix's 'The Crown' for his darkest hour yet. Playing the puerile Roger Ailes like Russell Crowe on T.V. to see who has 'The Loudest Voice'. The acting great is so good here you actually hate him. Sign of a transcendent talent. It's a good job you can also unrecognisably not tell it's him, although that voice is unmistakable. The real voice however comes from the big-three, top billing who shout loud in this true story for all the real life anchors who do the same for all the marginalised women in a sexist society still harassed into hiding or shamed into indecency today. Whilst the evil that the men that bully and intimate them still goes unaccounted for everytime a Weinstein day in court just seems like another delay from where he belongs...if he'll ever get there at all. Walking free with the aid of the same stroller that looks all too familiar and doctored...not doctors orders. And then of course there's the most ignorant and indecent in the most important house in the country. Let alone the world. He can turn off his T.V. all he wants as he grabs his phone like a bored teen. The news is still taking about him...and it's the furthest thing from fake. Ready to go back to war...oh yeah! TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Vice', 'The Loudest Voice', 'Erin Brokovich'.
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