Dining at Enso Omakase in Brooklyn was one of those meals that lingers long after signing the cheque. I’ve been to my fair share of omakase spots, and while many memorable, it can sometimes feel rushed or theatrical—courses flying by before I had a chance to absorb the experience. Enso was the complete opposite. It was thoughtful and intentional, serving at a pace that allowed us to enjoy every bite and fully appreciate the fish that comes from purveyors specializing in omakase.
Gotham Week Night 3: The Locals delivered six exciting short films on their way to becoming feature-length films.
Forty-two years after audiences first plunged into the shimmering neon circuitry of Tron, and over a decade after Tron: Legacy revived the franchise with sleek, high-gloss bravado, Tron: Ares arrives like a signal from another world — one both hauntingly familiar and thrillingly new. Directed by Joachim Rønning, the film achieves what so few franchise revivals dare: it deepens the mythos without drowning in nostalgia. The result is a stunning, ambitious, and surprisingly emotional continuation that cements Tron as one of Disney’s most visionary science-fiction sagas.
Stepping into the premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, my expectations were high. I’ve seen and adored so much of his oeuvre, and Julia Roberts never misses, so I expected a knockout.
And knocked out I was.
“How many people are in therapy?” Rebecca Zlotowski asked the audience, following the premiere of “A Private Life,” prompting hand raises and knowing laughter.
Saturday, October 4, 2025. Duggal Greenhouse. Flushing Ave, Brooklyn — This year’s CultureCon 2025, powered by The Creative Collective NYC and presented by Chase, Inc. I-N-K, invited attendees to boldly “Take Up Space.”
Not every music biopic needs to chronicle an entire life, and Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere doesn’t attempt to depict The Boss in such a way. Bruce Springsteen’s catapult to fame? Skipped over. Instead, the film trades Springsteen’s hits for the moodier tracks of his sixth studio album, Nebraska. With a focus on this particular chapter of his life, the film sidesteps some biopic clichés — only to trip over others.
Netflix’s A House of Dynamite was a captivating film that questioned the power of the government.
“The first thing I thought was, it would be cool to make a film with Tom Waits as Adam Driver’s father.”
Naturally, the audience was cued to laugh, as Jim Jarmusch explained his writing process.
“I always have a kind of haphazard way of writing where I’m gathering small ideas that I don’t quite know the overall structure or picture yet,” he explained a moment earlier “And I write thinking of actors I would like to collaborate with on these characters.”
After winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the film was screened at the New York Film Festival as the centerpiece film of the festival. The film, directed by Jim Jarmusch features a triptych focusing on the relationships between adult children reconnecting or coming to terms with aging or lost parents.
So when Jim called, Adam Driver answered the phone immediately.
“Anytime he calls about anything,” Driver said, “Regardless of what it is, if it’s, you know, therapy, wallpaper, I’d be interested in doing that. He’s one of my favorite directors of all time.”
When it was their turn to praise Jarmusch, Indya Moore described their experience working with the director in poetic terms.
“I got to do my best work on James’ film,” they shared, “It was my best work because all of the years of experience that I’ve had, I came up to that moment in the discipline. I got to really fill out my space on set to really embody this character. But when it comes to my instrument as an artist, what I find is that I’m able to provide the most sincere reflection of whatever human experience I’m reflecting as an actor when the environment supports that.”
”I felt respected, there was food,” they added, after noting that Jim curated a safe space on set.
Luka Sabbat echoed similar sentiments. “Jim creates such like a great work environment,” he said, “And he’s particular without like being like arrogant or mean in any sort of way, and he really knows how to communicate his ideas and I feel like as an actor it’s so helpful to be with somebody who really knows what they want and knows how to communicate their ideas, you know.”
Expanding on this, he shares, “I’ve always wanted to be an actor and I grew up watching his films and actually moved to, I grew up in Paris and I had moved to New York to become an actor and then, like, my first big time movie, I got to shoot it back in Paris with one of my favorite directors, so I was like, wow, this is really awesome.”
While all of these actors expressed gratitude to work with Jim Jarmusch, the director himself expressed no desire to see Father Mother Sister Brother following its release in December.
“We presented the film in Venice at the Film Festival, and we presented here,” he said, “And after that, I will see it one time more with a paying audience that doesn’t know I’m there. And then I will never see it again.”
“You can’t change them later,” he added, ‘And I always follow the French poet Paul Belair. He said, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned. And you could edit forever and ever.’”
“Father Mother Sister Brother” is now playing at the New York Film Festival, and will be seeing a limited release on December 24, 2025.
Los Angeles doesn’t lack great restaurants. What it lacks are places that feel both rooted in tradition and daring enough to push the dining experience forward.