Dakota Johnson

Babak Anvari burst onto the horror scene in 2016 with a bang. His supernatural horror movie Under the Shadow dealt with fears of war and terrorism along with the encroaching fear of the supernatural haunting you. It was a strong debut that…

The story of America’s disenfranchised and disadvantaged in the deep south is the subject of many films. From Of Mice and Men to Winter’s Bone all tell stories of hard-bitten people living hard-bitten lives on the fringes. Few tell it with…

A worm on a window ledge. A hair clogged toilet. Viscera clutched to a naked breast. All of these images and more combine to form the unsettling dreamscapes of Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) in Luca Guadagino’s masterful Suspiria remake.…

As the film title suggests, things get worse for the seven characters with dark histories who seem to randomly collide in 1969 at the Lake Tahoe El Royale Hotel—a decaying former favorite of Vegas’ rat pack. The gimmicky hotel sits half in…

The once mighty rom-com genre, it's fair to say, has been in a state of flux recently. The Sandra Bullock/Hugh Grant/Matthew McConaughey vehicles of yore seem like bizarre memories from a pre- tinder, cultural fever dream and the…

Hello there. You may notice that this week's Digest is a day late. This is because yesterday was my birthday and, in the vein of birthdays of my childhood, I was excused from homework. Yesterday, I realised that my birthday is the only…