It's the near future. Methane under a new Greenland drilling field ignites, and an ice shelf the size of Maryland breaks loose and drifts toward Norway. Oil magnate Digger Rockwell and his friends in the White House have three days to warn the world, and they choose silence. Alejandro González Iñárritu's Digger turns it up to 11 and never lets up.

In this episode, Joshua Johnson, John Dougherty, and Craig Detweiler review Iñárritu's big swing of a satire: Tom Cruise in prosthetics, foaming at the mouth; Riz Ahmed as the scientist who tells the truth; and a film that shouts its ideas instead of telling jokes. Then each host brings a double feature in conversation with it, and they close with their September watchlist.

When the real world already reads like satire, what is left for satire to do?

Now Showing: Digger
(01:08) Digger: spoiler-free review
(08:44) Spoiler section

Double Feature
(44:15)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986)

September Watchlist
(1:02:20)
Blue Heron · Tuner · Natchez · Don't Say Good Luck · I Swear · Teenage Wasteland · Catherine Called Birdy · I Love Boosters · Mayday

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