The moviegoing climate can be hard to predict sometimes. We often crave original ideas and big swings to avoid the predictability of big IPs, sequels, and spinoffs, but sometimes those big swings miss, and those original ideas get ignored. This isn't meant to blame the moviegoer. As we've seen just
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Now that Digger is out into the world, it has unleashed a bevy of online discourse. Everything from masterpiece to worst of the decade, to box office bomb to a predicted 10 year revisionist reclamation - everyone has something to say about Digger. And no two opinions seem to match, the hives on
When it comes to the film industry, there is no denying that Tom Cruise remains one of our biggest movie stars. From the time he broke out in Risky Business, it was clear that he had an infectious, magnetic charm that ultimately progressed into an incredible range that, despite all of his success,
Alejandro Iñárritu has always had a knack for the twisty route into a narrative. Babel’s interwoven tale transcends clean linear chronology and geography alike. Birdman follows a fictionalized Michael Keaton as his inner turmoil–and the surreal legacy of his superhero alter-ego,
Tom Cruise is set to make one of his first Academy Award plays in years with Digger, a satirical black comedy directed by Alejandro Iñárritu. The film has looked offbeat from the start, with the actor wearing head-to-toe facial prosthetics, a thinning gray hairpiece, and a full-body fat suit to
Tom Cruise is Digger Rockwell, an oil tycoon who is faced with an impossible decision: Try to save the world or make money. Well, impossible for an oil tycoon. The new film Digger from visionary director Alejandro Iñártitu brings us Cruise as we have never seen him before, which is saying
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
Who could've guessed that a film about a stinky fisherwoman and a wicker husband would end up being one of the most romantic movies of the year? For all its vulgarity and absurdity, Wicker weaves a surprisingly sincere, shockingly sweet fable of against-all-odds love and a dismantling critique of
Few studios have set such a precedent within their own genre quite like Laika Studios. With each painstakingly crafted story, they consistently find new ways to level up stop motion animation and push the limits of what can be accomplished. Stop motion is already a marvelous feat of patience and
