The Best Pop Culture Halloween Costumes for 2025: From ‘One Battle After Another’ to ‘Life of a Showgirl’

21 Halloween Costume Ideas Inspired By The Year’s Big Pop Culture Moments

HBO Max2025 has been... quite the year. And friends, it’s not over. But that just means we have plenty of Halloween costume fodder for this year (and next). Yes, if you’re looking for a topical, pop culture-centered Halloween costume to represent 2025, we’ve got you covered. From Kendrick Lamar and his bootcut jeans at the Super Bowl in February to the Coldplay couple getting caught on Kiss Cam in July, a whole lot has happened — and it all make…

The Best Pop Culture Halloween Costumes for 2025: From ‘One Battle After Another’ to ‘Life of a Showgirl’

You’ll likely see a multitude of plaid bathroom robes on the streets this Halloween. But unlike years past, movie bros won’t be smoking a fake cigar as Tony Soprano. Instead, they’ll have a vape and rifle in tow as they take on the role of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bob Ferguson from “One Battle After Another.” Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest epic is just one of the films and TV shows out this year that is a gold mine for costume inspiration this Hallo…

One Battle After Another Editor Andy Jurgensen on Cutting Paul Thomas Anderson’s Action-Comedy Epic

How do you make a 2.5-hour movie that feels like it flies by in a third of the time? Meet editor Andy Jurgensen, a long-time collaborator of Paul Thomas Anderson, who has followed up Licorice Pizza with One Battle After Another. In a masterful cross-cutting patchwork full of intensity, emotion, and humor––often co-existing in the same scene––Jurgensen has crafted what is certainly the editing feat of the year, perhaps the decade. With Paul Thoma…

One Battle After Another review: Leonardo DiCaprio stars in a ‘dazzler’ of a comedy-action

This “virtuosic”, politically charged triumph is “horrifying yet ridiculously funny”. It’s rare to see such an ambitious film work so smoothly. Paul Thomas Anderson is the brilliant mind and Leonardo DiCaprio the emotional heart of this timely, audacious comic-action-drama One Battle After Another. As Bob, a former radical now content to drink and smoke all day long, DiCaprio races around in a plaid bathrobe and a beanie trying to rescue his abd…