Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/20/tom-cruise-digger-climate-film #Digger #Environment #TomCruise #Film #Culture #FilmCriticism #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #Oil
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Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time
By Oliver MilmanThe movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DC
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/20/tom-cruise-digger-climate-film
#Digger #Environment #TomCruise #Film #Culture #Filmcriticism #Climatecrisis #Fossilfuels #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #Oil #TheGuardian #OliverMilman
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Ann Hornaday Dead: Washington Post Film Critic Was 66
On Monday, after learning the sad news of Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday‘s death at age 66 from…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #AnnHornaday #CA #Canada #Entertainment #Film #FilmCriticism #reviews #WashingtonPost
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Ann Hornaday Dead: Washington Post Film Critic Was 66
On Monday, after learning the sad news of Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday‘s death at age 66 from…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Celebrities #AnnHornaday #Entertainment #Film #FilmCriticism #reviews #WashingtonPost
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RIP Ann Hornaday, a Newspaper Film Critic Survivor
#IndieWire #News #Obituary #AnnHornaday #Film #FilmCriticism #Reviews #WashingtonPosthttps://www.indiewire.com/news/obituary/ann-hornaday-dead-washington-post-film-critic-1235222901/
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The Digger disaster: what an epic movie flop means for Tom Cruise and Hollywood
By Catherine ShoardUnprecedented folly of misjudgment, bad timing and spectacular hubris is predicted to lose $245m. How did this happen?
#Digger #TomCruise #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #Film #WarnerBros #Culture #Worldnews #Filmcriticism #Filmindustry #TheGuardian #CatherineShoard
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It appears there is something better than “fugitive sex”: “the maid’s son got kidnapped by mistake and we’re being extorted for $7 million while Dana Scully is creeping around our mansion probably spying on us sex.”
#Animals #MovieReview #Thriller #Crime #Drama #FilmCriticism
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This is a script that runs on visual clichés without understanding how human interactions actually function.
#AmericanSummer #MovieReview #Comedy #Family #FilmCriticism
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Dogmatic Nordic liberals v eastern family values: culture-clash drama Fjord touches nerves in Norway and Romania https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/16/fjord-cristian-mungiu-london-film-festival #Film #CannesFilmFestival #Culture #Romania #Europe #FilmCriticism #Norway #LondonFilmFestival #ChildProtection
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The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable review – Netflix doc on ‘secret album’ is strictly for super fans
By Adrian HortonThe lore of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, once bought by Martin Shkreli, is explored in a rambling film produced by RZA
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/16/disciple-wu-tang-fable-netflix-documentary-review
#Documentaryfilms #WuTangClan #Music #Culture #Film #MartinShkreli #Rap #BlackUSculture #Filmcriticism #Netflix #TheGuardian #AdrianHorton
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Dogmatic Nordic liberals v eastern family values: culture-clash drama Fjord touches nerves in Norway and Romania
By Andrei Popoviciu and Magnus NomeCristian Mungiu’s Cannes winner echoes the news story of a Romanian couple whose children were taken by the Norwegian government. As it heads to London film festival, two writers explain how the film exposes real hypocrisies
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/16/fjord-cristian-mungiu-london-film-festival
#Film #Cannesfilmfestival #Culture #Romania #Europe #Filmcriticism #Norway #Londonfilmfestival #Childprotection #TheGuardian #AndreiPopoviciu #MagnusNome
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Nothing But the Truth purports to defend freedom of speech, but it is built on the dubious foundation that only drunks and children tell the truth.
#NothingButtheTruth #MovieReview #Thriller #Drama #FilmCriticism
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A Lion's Game doesn’t just disregard estate law and forensic science; it abolishes the entire concept of the justice system.
#ALionsGame #MovieReview #Thriller #Crime #FilmCriticism
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Rebellion review – story of Bradford 12 revisits Britain’s ugly racist past
By Peter BradshawKen Fero and Tariq Mehmood’s documentary recalls the fight against racism in 1980s Britain – even if its account of solidarity has a notable omission
#Film #Documentaryfilms #Race #Culture #Worldnews #Londonfilmfestival #Festivals #Filmcriticism #Police #Bradford #Racereligion #Media #UKnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Big Girls Don’t Cry… They Get Even begins with an arrogant narrator looking at the camera to boast about how complex and edgy her family is. It finishes by trapping that narrator in a climax so mathematically unhinged that her initial diagnosis of her own life was completely wrong.
#Comedy #MovieReview #ComingofAge #FilmCriticism
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The Death of Robin Hood gives the impression that someone set out to out-dumb Ridley Scott’s needless origin story with an even more pointless redemption arc.
#TheDeathofRobinHood #MovieReview #Drama #RobinHood #FilmCriticism
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The Lotus Tea
Catherine Liu took the stage in London on September 21 to talk about trauma. She was there for Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering, new from Verso. The book argues that trauma has been commodified into a politics of permanent victimhood, and that its loudest merchants trade in something other than the true suffering of people. Midway through the conversation with Ash Sarkar on Novara Media's Downstream, Liu, a cultural critic and professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine, swerved into Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. She apologized for the tangent, and her interviewer told her to keep going. "What a phenomenal tangent that was," she said when she surfaced. […] -
How we lost our appetite for eat-the-rich satire
By Alastair RyderTom Cruise’s latest film could lose $250m (£190m) – could one reason be that audiences are tired of Hollywood telling them what they already know about the super-rich?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/14/how-we-lost-our-appetite-for-eat-the-rich-satire
#Film #Digger #WarnerBros #Classissues #DonaldTrump #ParamountPictures #Saltburn #TomCruise #Inequality #Culture #Filmcriticism #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #Filmindustry #TheGuardian #AlastairRyder
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How we lost our appetite for eat-the-rich satire https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/14/how-we-lost-our-appetite-for-eat-the-rich-satire #Film #Digger #WarnerBros #ClassIssues #DonaldTrump #ParamountPictures #Saltburn #TomCruise #Inequality #Culture #FilmCriticism #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #FilmIndustry
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It’s not much of a horror story when a chiropractor would do just as well as an exorcist.
#Shutter #MovieReview #Horror #Thriller #FilmCriticism
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Girls Like Girls proves Hayley Kiyoko is a better director than she’s a screenwriter. Directing someone else’s script would be her smartest next move.
#GirlsLikeGirls #MovieReview #Drama #Romance #FilmCriticism
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How many people can say that they played Dino and Bob Mitchum against each other and almost got away with it?
#FiveCardStud #MovieReview #Western #Mystery #FilmCriticism
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There’s precious little car washing in The Wash, and I most certainly didn’t need to see Dre rubbing his junk while eavesdropping on Snoop getting it on in the john.
#TheWash #MovieReview #Comedy #FilmCriticism
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Digger on course for $245m loss after box office collapse
By Andrew PulverEstimates suggest the eco satire starring Tom Cruise could join the list of top turkeys, including Cutthroat Island and The Marvels
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/digger-loss-245m-box-office-collapse
#Film #Digger #TomCruise #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #Filmcriticism #MarketingPR #Filmindustry #AaronSorkin #MarkZuckerberg #Business #Culture #Media #Technology #USnews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AndrewPulver
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Digger on course for $245m loss after box office collapse https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/digger-loss-245m-box-office-collapse #Film #Digger #TomCruise #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #FilmCriticism #MarketingPr #FilmIndustry #AaronSorkin #MarkZuckerberg #Business #Culture #Media #Technology #UsNews #WorldNews
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Deadstream (2022) is not as dumb as it first and last appears to be, and it first and last appears to be really fucking dumb — even by found footage standards.
#Deadstream #MovieReview #Horror #Comedy #FoundFootage #FilmCriticism
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I’m tempted to describe What Happens Later (2023) as The Langoliers of romantic dramedies, but then it isn’t all that spooky, or romantic, or dramatic, or funny.
#WhatHappensLater #MovieReview #Romance #Comedy #FilmCriticism
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When a film doesn’t trust its material to be engaging on its own terms, it slaps a layer of ersatz auteur hipster gloss over a straightforward B-movie premise.
#TheBabysitter #MovieReview #Horror #Comedy #FilmCriticism
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The Intruders treats its hidden space like a magician’s trapdoor. It’s just a trick to get a reaction out of the audience. Once the secret room is opened, the movie has nothing left to say.
#TheIntruders #MovieReview #Mystery #Thriller #FilmCriticism
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Shakespeare relied on the fatalistic urgency and fiery passion of teenagers. Ethan and Nadine are in their mid-to-late 30s and trying to get people to set sail inside giant pumpkins. Their sneaking around their parents somehow doesn’t have the same impact.
#PumpkinRegattaRomance #MovieReview #Romance #Comedy #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/pumpkin-regatta-romance-2026-romeo-and-juliet-if-shakespeare-had-been-out-of-his-gourd/ -
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) is what John Waters would crap out if David Lynch force-fed him a VHS copy of American Beauty.
#WhiteBirdinaBlizzard #MovieReview #Drama #ComingofAge #FilmCriticism
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It’s hard to imagine a movie where the boundary between narrative drama and documentary process dissolves more delightfully than in The Taste of Things.
#TheTasteofThings #MovieReview #Drama #Romance #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/cinema-of-the-senses-and-the-philosophy-of-process-the-taste-of-things-2023/ -
The Mortuary Collection (2019) stands out because it embraces the classical architecture of storytelling in an era dominated by half-baked nihilism.
#TheMortuaryCollection #MovieReview #Horror #Anthology #FilmCriticism
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Body of Influence (1993) feels partly inspired by The Three Faces of Eve, only instead of examining the complex plurality of the female psyche, it revolves around the diabolical fallacy that there exists but one many-faced woman.
#BodyofInfluence #MovieReview #Erotic #Thriller #FilmCriticism
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Nikita tries to be a sleek action thriller, an existential drama, a dark comedy, and a doomed romance all at once. By refusing to commit, the film undercuts its emotional stakes.
#Nikita #MovieReview #Action #Thriller #Drama #FilmCriticism
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Stacking secret long-lost relatives on top of secret long-lost relatives creates a feedback loop where every major character is fighting over the same dinner table, yet behaving as if they are navigating an epic saga.
#TheStolenValley #MovieReview #Action #Drama #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-stolen-valley-2022-a-dumbed-down-tex-mex-thelma-louise/ -
Abandoning the urge for an abrupt Shyamalan-style plot twist and leaning into dramatic irony, Last Survivors pivots from a trick-ending mystery toward a psychological study of indoctrination and emancipation.
#LastSurvivors #MovieReview #Drama #Thriller #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/last-survivors-2021-proves-that-it-does-not-take-a-village/ -
If you crack up every time you see a dog doing something disgusting, Strays is right up your alley. Also, you may be a fucking moron.
#Strays #MovieReview #Comedy #FilmCriticism
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The main problem with Evil Dead Burn is what I like to call “aesthetic asymmetry.”
#EvilDeadBurn #MovieReview #Horror #Slasher #FilmCriticism
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The Taking of Beverly Hills takes the “heist within a heist” formula and derails it with an economic model that defies every rule of finance, law, and basic accounting.
#TheTakingofBeverlyHills #MovieReview #Action #Thriller #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/the-taking-of-beverly-hills-1991-class-erasure-the-neoliberal-action-hero/ -
When a script stacks three unrelated killer archetypes — Child Prodigy Assassin, Late-Blooming Revenge Stalker, and Serial Body-Parts Artist — into a single dude working a minimum-wage valet shift, the narrative unravels.
#TheRow #MovieReview #Horror #Slasher #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/the-row-2018-motive-overkill-and-the-convenient-omnipresent-antagonist/ -
The Dog Bite Murders (2025) claims to be “inspired by true events,” with “some of the dialogue” reflecting “actual words spoken.” That is technically correct. In fact, every single word in the script has been spoken. By someone. At some point.
#TheDogBiteMurders #MovieReview #Drama #TrueStory #FilmCriticism
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The problem with Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker is right there in the title. It can’t decide whether it wants to be about a late-night radio program where people call to tell horror stories or about an unstable listener with a grudge against the DJ.
#NightmareRadioTheNightStalker #MovieReview #Horror #Anthology #FilmCriticism
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A vegetarian, ice-breathing dragon is counterintuitive to say the least, yet that’s what DragonHeart: Vengeance (2020) gives us: an oversized, computer-generated fire extinguisher.
#DragonHeartVengeance #MovieReview #Adventure #Fantasy #FilmCriticism
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The Black Windmill (1974) is a very British artifact — too British at times. Scriptwriter Leigh Vance must have thought his native humor was so dry that American director Don Siegel wouldn’t notice how some characters keep taking the piss in what otherwise aspires to be a tense thriller, and he may have been right.
#TheBlackWindmill #MovieReview #Crime #Action #Thriller #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/the-black-windmill-1974-a-hard-boiled-american-cop-movie-tangled-up-in-a-west-end-stage-comedy/ -
Borderlands (2024) is exactly what you’d expect from a Dwayne Johnson-Kevin Hart sci-fi/fantasy adventure in which Cate Blanchett slums it in the Dwayne Johnson role.
#Borderlands #MovieReview #Action #Adventure #FilmCriticism
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Insofar as they remain a punk band, Green Day are the U2 of punk bands, and here they out-Rattle and Hum U2.
#Nimrods #MovieReview #Comedy #RoadTrip #GreenDay #ComingofAge #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/nimrods-2025-commodifying-the-punk-ethos/