Film Review - Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
December 12, 2018
Last year, director Alexis Bloom delivered “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds,” which provided an insider peek into the family dynamic and living spaces of two Hollywood stars. It was a bittersweet viewing experiencing (the picture aired mere weeks after their deaths), but a warm, educational overview of two incredible lives enduring complication relationships with vices, insecurities, and each other. It’s unfortunate that Bloom can’t follow-up “Bright Lights” with something similarly appealing, electing to head into the competitive political documentary marketplace, turning her attention to the rise and fall of a powerful man. “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes” offers some assurance from its title that it’s going to track life experiences from the architect of Fox News, but Bloom doesn’t remain committed to such study for very long, eventually pulling back from the toxicity of Ailes to explore cable news pollution, corrupt men, and the evils of propaganda. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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