Pulp Kitchen: A Film Podcast

Tom Cruise is back on the big screen in DIGGER, his latest collaboration with director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

In this spoiler-free review, we break down the film’s wild performances, distinctive cinematography, dark humour and unconventional style, and discuss whether this is one of the strangest films of Tom Cruise’s career.

DIG in and enjoy!

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George runs through some more of the major films he saw in Toronto at TIFF 2026. Some good, some bad... including:

Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother - a Mahershala Ali family crime drama
Misty Green - a Chris Rock-directed Hollywood satire featuring Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and starring Slow Horses' Rosalind Eleazar
Babies - comedy starring Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick
Evil Genius - bizarre true-crime story with David Harbour and Patricia Arquette, and directed by Courteney Cox.

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This week, we met Tom Cruise. Yes, actual Tom Cruise.

We tell the full story of how it happened, what he was like, and try to process meeting one of the biggest movie stars on the planet.

We catch up on all your emails, and of course end with a game.

Stay tuned for our review of Digger next week!

00:00:00 - Meeting Tom Cruise
00:34:17 - Emails
01:00:13 - Game

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George has travelled far and wide across the film schedule at TIFF 2026, and now he’s back to report on the very best films he saw at the festival.

We’re looking ahead to the films that could become major players during awards season, from potential Best Picture contenders to standout performances and some of the biggest discoveries from Toronto.

Which films are already generating serious Oscar buzz? Which ones should you be keeping an eye on? And which movies could be the ones everyone is talking about over the next few months?

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In this episode, James is reviewing the brand-new 2026 Resident Evil movie directed by Zach Cregger. He unpacks the latest attempt to bring Capcom’s iconic survival horror gaming franchise to the big screen.

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