Ink at Speed Cinema

Ink

Directed by Danny Boyle

Saturday, December 12, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS

$12 | $8 Speed members | Free for students with valid I.D.

“Visually stimulating and highly enjoyable.”—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

In the late 1960s, the millionaire Rupert Murdoch (Guy Pearce) and veteran newspaper editor Larry Lamb (Jack O’Connell) team up to hatch a wild plan: to challenge London’s leading newspaper with a brash new form of journalism. They hope to win comeuppance against the snobbish British aristocratic elite.

As Lamb reinvents Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun, he becomes an attack dog, devolving his newspaper into a sensationalistic, sexually charged, and right-leaning rag—and watches sales skyrocket.

Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) works from James Graham’s adaptation of his own hit play, taking darkly exuberant comic delight in a wild underdog story with radically destructive results. Claire Foy plays the woman’s page editor Jules Davies, and the trio’s superb performances, along with Boyle’s inventive visual pastiche, make Ink mesmerizing and gripping entertainment. 2026, U.K./U.S./France, DCP, 116 minutes. Rated R.