Top V - Week of Aug 11, 2025

Each week, our Vision team handpicks 5 standout watches and 5 essential listens that capture the mood, the moment, and the magic of what’s moving culture forward. From cult classics to under-the-radar bangers, cinematic fever dreams to soul-stirring sounds, these are the stories and sounds that inspire us, challenge us, and make us feel. Whether you're curating your next creative binge or just want to feel something iconic, this is your starting point.

WATCH LIST

REEL LOVE

Step into the glow of these old Hollywood classics. This week’s Top V transports you to a time of whispered secrets, vintage heartbreak, and black-and-white brilliance.

1. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)

   From the war-torn backdrop to the unforgettable lines, this is a story of love, sacrifice, and style that still stings.

2. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)

   An adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Southern Gothic masterpiece that simmers with tension and raw emotion. Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh are electric in a slow-burning drama of madness, desire, and symbolism.

3. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)

   This modern silent film is a love letter to cinema’s golden age. Poignant, playful, and dripping with style, it proves you don’t need sound to say something unforgettable.

4. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)

   Low-budget but high-impact, this shadowy noir follows a hitchhiker doomed by fate and femme fatales. It’s punchy, fatalistic, and oozing with that “wrong place, wrong time” energy.

5. To Have and To Have Not (Howard Hawks)

   An underrated British gem with a noir edge, this suspenseful drama follows a man haunted by secrets and bound by vows. Romance and mystery twist together in a story that’s all about what we keep and what we bury.

LISTEN LIST

RECKONING

Listen on Spotify

1. Rebuke

   by KAYTRAMINE

   
   

2. Over & Over

   by Dro Kenji

   
   

3. All I Feel Is Rain

   by Khalid, JID

   
   

4. turned your back

   by Gunna

   
   

5. Night Job

   by Bas, J. Cole