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...
Uncovering Glamour, Resistance, and Truth: Max’s ‘Enigma’ Shines a Light on Trans History
With stunning archival footage and intimate storytelling, ‘Enigma’ reclaims the legacy of April Ashley, Amanda Lear, and the underground icons of Le Carrousel. Zackary Drucker’s 2025 documentary ‘Enigma’, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 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...
