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116m
Ink
Book Tickets
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Synopsis
Director Danny Boyle’s latest thrillingly charts the meteoric rise of Rupert Murdoch’s fledgling but instantly notorious The Sun newspaper as he and editor Larry Lamb create the blueprint for UK tabloid culture.
Rupert Murdoch (Guy Pearce, The Brutalist, TIFF ’24) persuades newspaper editor Larry Lamb (Jack O’Connell) to oversee his newly acquired but flagging daily, The Sun. But how to grab readers in the highly competitive British media market? Be extreme, throwing anything onto the page that will make a splash, the more titillating, the better. The tactic works, and soon the notorious Sun sees a massive spike in circulation.
The goal of casting a wide net for new readers creates just enough space for one woman (Claire Foy) to break through and pitch articles with a modern woman’s perspective. It’s not long before she starts to brush against the limits of the prevailing boys’ club culture within the industry. And as readership numbers rise, so do the paper’s detractors.
O’Connell is riveting as the ambitious and morally compromised Lamb, pushing the team to go ever further while Pearce gives a carefully calibrated portrayal of Murdoch as both reticent and ruthless, driven by an outsider’s resentment. Fast-paced and gripping, Boyle’s Ink traces this dark journalistic legacy that continues to reverberate today.
Screening at Luna Leederville from January 7.
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2026 | In Competition
Toronto International Film Festival 2026 | Official Selection
Telluride Film Festival 2026 | Official Selection
Opening Date
Thursday, Jan 7, 2027
Rating
CTC
Length
116m
Genre
New Release
Reviews
Ink works as both a fictionalized snapshot of a lost world and a forensic exploration of what happens when you give the people what they want, instead of what they don’t know they want.
A rambunctious pageant on how (if this doesn’t sound too naïve) the British media lost the last strand of its innocence. Dirty, gripping, enraging stuff.
It has the same exhilarating, exhausting effect as reading a tabloid front to back in one sitting.
O’Connell is excellent casting as Lamb; muscular and pugnacious as a working-class reporter made good.
The events it depicts ultimately gave birth to the solipsistic, techno-feudal morass of our present moment. It’ll infuriate many, but it might also be a masterpiece.
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