Peter and Andrew return to their theatrical review series to break down Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ambitious, high-budget satire Digger. The hosts dissect Tom Cruise’s eccentric, high-energy lead performance as a ruthless, aging oil tycoon whose Arctic drilling triggers a global environmental crisis. In their spoiler-free review, they evaluate whether the film's abrasive tone, heavy-handed messaging, and over-the-top caricatures succeed as Coen-style farce, while questioning why an 80-year-old billionaire was cast with a heavily prosthetized Cruise instead of an age-appropriate veteran actor.

Crossing into spoiler territory, the guys untangle the film's central conceit—revealing that the disastrous saga is actually an onstage play being performed decades later in a post-apocalyptic, nuclear-winter future. They critique the film-within-a-play device, debate why Jesse Plemons' outside-world subplot feels disconnected from the core narrative, and explain how Iñárritu’s ultra-cinematic visual style fundamentally clashes with the illusion of theatrical staging. Finally, they reflect on its brutal box office stumble, weighing whether Digger is an unmitigated disaster or the kind of fascinating misfire that only a brilliant auteur could make.

Topics covered: Tom Cruise’s real-life friendliness on the Paramount lot, the narrative pitfalls of movies that over-explain their own comedy, swinging for triples versus home runs in blockbuster cinema, and whether cutting the outer-frame narrative could have saved the story.