Christopher Nolan has directed two movies in which a soldier washes up on a foreign shore and, battle-weary and sodden, fights to return home. The first, 2017’s Dunkirk, dramatized the World War II evacuation in which thousands of Allied soldiers were killed. It received a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for “intense war experience and some language.
Sometime after Jack Black hollered “chicken jockey” in 2025’s A Minecraft Movie, and before The Odyssey drove the masses mad with aspect-ratio anxiety, Hollywood finally felt seen—and saved—by Gen Z. Over the past year, trade publications and mainstream outlets alike celebrated the news: Zoomers were coming of age and coming to the rescue of American cinema.
The pop star Dua Lipa is known for her dance-floor hits, for her turn as a mermaid in Barbie, for always seeming to be on vacation. Lately, though, she’s cultivated a reputation as a literary tastemaker. Through her book club, Service95, founded in 2023, the singer has made her love of books key to her public persona. She interviews authors on her podcast and has appeared at various Booker Prize festivities; she and her new husband, Callum Turner, purportedly bonded over a Hernan Diaz novel.