International news in seven languages
Topic
BBC Culture's critic Nicholas Barber calls it "an ecologically extravagant, sermonising and conceptually challenging satire."
"Digger" isn’t funny. It’s nervy, in your face, audacious, adventurous, and bizarro in a free-swinging, out-of-the-box way. And it feels like a comedy, since it’s fueled by the relentless overacting of a bad Coen brothers movie. But "Dr. Strangelove," built around the genius of Peter Sellers, was brilliantly funny. "Digger" borrows the doomsday architecture of "Strangelove" but leaves out the slyness, replacing it with a lavishly in-your-face spectacle of browbeating.
Tom Cruise is going to divide us this year, and that might be the most interesting thing about his Oscar prospects for “Digger.” Depending on which screening you walked out of, it’s either the bravest swing of his late career or a miscalculation dressed up as one. Critics are divided, and audiences will be too. […]
The Princess of Wales went on Tuesday to the Royal Film Performance in London with a heart-shaped amethyst necklace with 103 years of history that she highlighted in a gala full of famous actors and other celebrities, such as David, Romeo and Cruz Beckham
William and Catherine renew their friendship with the Hollywood star at the premiere for his film Digger.
Tom Cruise’s star vehicle “Digger” has finally been unveiled to members of the film press, who have been left divided by the satirical black comedy. The latest directorial effort from “Birdman” and “The Revenant” Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu is being called everything from “baffling” to “unpleasant” to “fascinating stuff.” Most film journalists seem to […]
Despite the threat of AI to the film industry, Tom Cruise is confident that people will always “want to see real things” on screen. At an intimate BAFTA “Life in Pictures” conversation in London on Monday night, Cruise looked back on his four-decade career including acclaimed roles in “Top Gun,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Magnolia” and the […]
Images of two actors on front of Vogue and GQ land at a time when masculinity is increasingly dominating headlines Tom Cruise and Michael B Jordan share many similarities as box-office powerhouses known for their death-defying action hero stunts. But this week the two stars went head-to-head, or more accurately chest-to-chest, on magazine stands. In one corner there’s 64-year-old Cruise on the cover of GQ, his first for the magazine in 20 years. Posing in an unbuttoned shirt, one hand running through his tousled hair, the other gripping his belt buckle, this is Cruise playing the role of sexy
For his new film “Digger,” Tom Cruise transforms into Digger Rockwell, a wealthy oil tycoon who was not blessed with Cruise’s own good looks. In order to put on all the prosthetics for the role, the actor was originally sitting in hair and makeup for six hours — until he convinced the team they could […]
Tom Cruise and Taylor Swift made headlines on Monday when they sat next to each other at the Kansas City Chiefs’ first game of the season. But what were the two megastars talking about? “She was schooling me on football. For real,” Cruise revealed to Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on “The Tonight Show” on […]
