Still from The Social Reckoning .

October 2, 2026

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Between March 2024 and March 2025, n+1 film critic A. S. Hamrah published a weekly email digest of the worst, most inane, most apocalyptic reports from Hollywood, from AI bluster to the ominous stupidity of Warner Bros. head David Zaslav. The resulting fifty-two weekly dispatches—chronicling exactly one year of an industry in decline—were collected in Last Week in End Times Cinema , published by Semiotext(e) and available from the n+1 bookstore . Last night at the n+1 office, Hamrah spoke to n+1 coeditor Lisa Borst and n+1 contributor Will Tavlin about the year or so in end times cinema since Last Week in End Times Cinema . Hamrah and Tavlin put together a new installment of the digest at the event, and we’re pleased to publish it here.…