Top 5 new shows of 2025: the start of a new golden age?

Sharp, confident, and unified in diverse ambitions—the debuts that are pushing the medium forward

Masculinity in modern films

The vanishing man: how contemporary narratives are rewriting masculinity 

Beyond audiobooks: the intimacy of interactive audio

How interactive audio stories turn passive listening into performance

What 'Final Fantasy Tactics' can teach about politics today

An anti-Machiavellian reading of a gaming classic, showing why its themes of oppression, integrity, and moral choice still resonate today

The reinvention of Jon Hamm in 'Your Friends & Neighbors'

Inside the actor’s gripping role as a father who loses everything overnight

Brightening your day with cinema

Movie monologues for hope, smiles, laughs, and absolute catharsis

Best of 2025: a year television refused to play it safe

From Severance to The Bear, ten shows that defined a bold, emotional year of television

Black Bag: precision and passion in the spy game

A sleek, sexy spy thriller with magnetic performances

Aftersun: a tender journey through memory, love, and loss

Exploring love and memory through a father-daughter holiday

Lam Shamsiyya: sparking social change in Egyptian media

How the Egyptian TV series is shaping conversations on sexual harassment and child exploitation

Script, film, complete, repeat

78.8% of 2025’s biggest movies don’t bring up an original idea

Game over for bad adaptations

Why "The Last of Us" and "Fallout" finally broke the curse

How Imogen Heap transformed music with the Mi.Mu gloves

Imogen Heap’s Mi.Mu gloves turned music into movement, reshaping performance, accessibility, and the future of sound

Fascism on film: Orwell, Riefenstahl, and Weimar's warning

A documentary exploration of fascism's past and its unsettling echoes in the present

Zubeen Garg and the soul of Northeast India

Remembering a musical legend and reimagining the Northeast through culture, identity, and the call for recognition

Amora: a poetic look at childhood and a disappearing city

Filmmaker Ana Petta and her son Pedro on memory, imagination, and resisting erasure in São Paulo

Disney’s Song of the South: a class perspective

Unpacking Disney's controversial classic through a class-conscious lens

Boyhood: a 12-year masterwork of Real-time coming-of-age

Analysis of Richard Linklater's decade-long production

A fragmented reflection: Holland

When reality shatters, what remains: courage or illusion?

Scripting a nation

How Hollywood rewrote the Russian identity for the western screen

Is Severance the best show on television?

An in-depth look at the new season's characters, episodes, and artistic achievements

'Frames from the future': art in motion on the Tiber

A floating exhibition where photography and memory flow together on Rome’s river

Cinema, music, and the unbroken spirit of Punjab

The journey of Punjabi cinema and music in bridging India and Pakistan

The unreliable narrator of the mind

How Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reflects the way our brains rewrite memories

The new flesh: modern body horror beyond gore

How Substance, The Ugly Stepsister, and Together redefine the genre

The evolution of cinema: from protest to profit

How Hollywood’s capitalist influence and digital platforms have transformed the artistic and political power of film

The Brazilian filmmakers collective redefining global cinema

Shaping cinema across borders through collaboration

Cloning the self in Mickey 17

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Me: Bong Joon-ho’s vision of identity, autonomy, and control in a cloned world

The Try Guys affair that broke the internet

Ariel Fulmer cannot Forgive Ned Fulmer’s cheating scandal

The Life of a Showgirl: holding Taylor to higher standards

Behind the sequins and stadium lights, Taylor Swift exposes not just herself but the contradictions of the culture around her

When the lights go out

In a world chasing spectacle, why purpose must return to the stage?