2025 started and ends with the losses of two cinematic titans – David Lynch and Rob Reiner – and the intervening months brought the threatening advancement of AI (with still no restrictions or guardrails for everyone’s favourite technology); protests against genocides; Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos brazenly claiming that cinemagoing is “an outdated concept”; and news of looming corporate monopolies that endanger the cinemagoing experience and the way we experience films.
Put all of this in the context of escalating fascistic nonsense, ongoing wars, and the everyday horrors of the news, and safe to say that it's been tough not to spiral into a meltdown.