‘Building the Band’ Boasts Blind Auditions & Final Bows
Full Circle Fame Netflix’s newest binge-worthy reality series, ‘Building the Band’, is making waves- and not just for its format. A spiritual successor to the boy band boom of the early 2010s, the show tries to recreate the accidental lightning-in-a-bottle that gave...
Expected Titles at the 2025 Venice Film Festival
‘After the Hunt’ Luca Guadagnino’s follow up to ‘Queer’ and ‘Challengers’ dives into the life of a college professor dealing with “cancel culture”, her secretive past, and a serious accusation against her colleague. With a cast led by Julia Roberts (in just her third...
Déjà View: Why Nostalgia Keeps Hollywood Repeating Itself
What Do We Want? Whilst rambling to my younger brother about how disappointed I was with this year’s slate of remakes, he cut through my outrage with one simple question that’s been rattling around in my head ever since. I had just finished laying into ‘Lilo and...
Fractured Reflections: The Illusion of Empowerment in Action Heroines
The Misquote Heard ‘Round the Web Back in 2022, during Variety’s ‘Actors on Actors’ series, Jennifer Lawrence added a bold- if inaccurate- claim to her résumé: that she was the first woman to lead an action movie. “Nobody had ever put a woman in the...
