Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Digger There is simply no way to discuss “Digger” without spoilers. Buckle the f-ck up. No one will ever accuse filmmaker Alejandro Iñárritu of humility. No one will ever accuse Movie Star Tom Cruise of subtlety. No one will ever accuse their first collaboration, Digger, of cowardice. Digger is a By Sarah • Oct 02, 2026 11:05 am
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise: Countdown to the Spirit Tunnel The Digger review embargo has been lifted, and as expected, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest is polarising by the very definition of the word: at the time of this post, it’s at 51% at Rotten Tomatoes and 48% at Metacritic. Digger opens on Friday alongside Verity, the latest Colleen By Lainey • Sep 29, 2026 02:59 pm
Top Reads Tom Cruise: A Royal Exception Alejandro González Iñárritu, Tom Cruise, and the cast of Digger were in London last night for the film’s world premiere. The full review embargo hasn’t yet been lifted but critics are now able to share their first reactions and that’s been one of the stories about the By Lainey • Sep 23, 2026 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise and Alejandro Iñárritu are teaming up Once upon a time, Tom Cruise worked with auteur filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, and Michael Mann, pretty regularly, but somewhere in the 2000s he shifted his focus to action blockbusters, and it’s been a long time since he’s made a film that has By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 11:14 am
Oscars 2016 Leo: the victory and the relief Before we begin, let us, together, enjoy this: The first time Leonardo DiCaprio got Oscar buzz was after starring in THIS BOYS LIFE with Robert De Niro. pic.twitter.com/OJ5JYkpufx— Sam Kalidi (@samkalidi) February 29, 2016 Duana sent that to me at 3am. It was better than caffeine. Leonardo By Lainey • Feb 29, 2016 05:48 pm
Media Manipulation Leo kisses Maggie Last night at the BAFTAs – Leonardo DiCaprio was named Best Actor, Alejandro G Inarritu took Best Director, and The Revenant won Best Picture. So, just in case you’ve been missing the last several weeks, there is no way Leo’s losing the Oscar. Maybe not even if he marries By Lainey • Feb 15, 2016 07:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Teasing and torturing Leonardo DiCaprio It was decided weeks and weeks ago – Leonardo DiCaprio will win Best Actor for being cold in The Revenant. Everybody knows this. Everyone in his category knows this. Even science knows this. Have you seen the Best Actor analysis on FiveThirtyEight? There’s basically no way he can lose at By Lainey • Feb 09, 2016 11:28 am
Media Manipulation The Revenant and Don's Plum Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro G Inarritu were in Mexico yesterday continuing to promote The Revenant. Leo’s Oscar for Best Actor has been secured. But they also want The Revenant to take Best Picture (with an asterisk, because let’s face it, the winners this year will be overshadowed by By Lainey • Jan 27, 2016 10:29 am
Top Reads The Revenant: Globes winner, and apparently an issues movie When Leonardo DiCaprio won his Golden Globe for Best Actor for The Revenant, he said that it’s time we take back the land for the First Nations, or something. I didn’t quite follow his point and also, the minute he invoked indigenous issues, I heard the roar of By Sarah • Jan 11, 2016 02:56 pm
Leonardo DiCaprio Leo D: The Struggler screens in New York Alejandro G Inarritu and Leonardo DiCaprio were joined by the cast of The Revenant, which I like to call The Struggler, because that’s what happens, he struggles, at the NY premiere last night. Note Tom Hardy isn’t there. I’m sure the official reason is that he’s By Lainey • Jan 07, 2016 11:06 am
Leonardo DiCaprio Leo's full bag of tricks The Revenant's not yet out but are you over Leonardo DiCaprio's hemming and hawing about eating raw bison liver, having his eyelids frozen shut or the incomparable sacrifices he reportedly made while filming? It's his finest "art." Just ask him. Because he By Joanna • Dec 17, 2015 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Director dick measuring The Hollywood Reporter has released their directors roundtable, which includes Tom Hooper, Danny Boyle, David O. Russell, Ridley Scott, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Quentin Tarantino. That’s quite a mix of people, several of whom have reputations for being, let’s call it “exacting” in their process. Hooper and Boyle By Sarah • Dec 11, 2015 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Revenant, aka Leo Eats Sh*t For Oscar Earlier this week we were treated to the exquisite gossip that Leonardo DiCaprio was (not really) violated by a fake bear in The Revenant. This produced some the silliest/most hilarious headlines in recent memory, and it only got funnier after Fox issued an official denial. But it was also By Sarah • Dec 04, 2015 04:00 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy The Leo & Alejandro Show Exactly one month from today, the Screen Actors Guild will announce the nominations for the SAG Awards which will take place on January 30, 2016. A few days after that, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will announce the Golden Globe Award nominees. The Revenant, directed by Alejandro G Inarritu, starring By Lainey • Nov 09, 2015 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy ain’t got time for primadonna directors Tom Hardy gave an interview, via Skype, to Vulture and in it he sh*ts all over the idea of directors and basically says they contribute nothing to film. I laughed for a solid five minutes, because cinema is a culture that worships directors and also because Tom Hardy basically By Sarah • Sep 24, 2015 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Revenant is basically Tropic Thunder The Hollywood Reporter has a feature with director Alejandro Inarritu, still working on The Revenant, which is basically just giving the guy a microphone to clear up those pesky rumors that his production is “troubled”, plagued by a hellish location shoot, budget overages, and scheduling woes. At least Inarritu doesn’ By Sarah • Jul 23, 2015 02:28 pm
