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Charlize Theron

January 2022

After the runaway success of Independence Day, director Roland Emmerich was urged to produce another such hit. Instead, he turned his hand to another disaster: the coming climate emergency.

The filmmakers grappling with humanity’s greatest threat

Once considered a fringe subject, climate change has proved a rich seam for filmmakers to mine as they wrestle with how, exactly, to depict looming disaster.

December 2020

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron: ‘My industry is embarrassed’

The actor is hoping Bombshell will remind audiences that sexual harassment and assault is a ‘non­-partisan issue’.

January 2020

Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson in Bombshell.

When spin is more important than the facts

Fox News supremo Roger Ailes’s deeds as a serial sexual harasser eventually brought him undone but the bigger issue in the film concerns the mechanics of power.

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