rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown Feb. 3 - 9 2025
What do Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show and the movie Companion have in common? I watched 'em both this week!
Emily St. James
Emily St. James is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Vox, The A.V. Club, and the New York Times. She is the co-creator of the podcast Arden and a writer on the TV series Yellowjackets.
2025
It's all happening so fast
Here's what's up with me? What's up with you?
TV
This Succession episode from 2023 perfectly captures the first few weeks of 2025
We're all afraid of death, but nobody wants to talk about it.
rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown Jan. 27-Feb. 2 2025
This week: Ghosts, priests, forced feminization programs.
oscars
Nobody has seen the movies
What do we mean when we make this complaint about the Oscar Best Picture nominees?
movies
Episodes Monday Rundown: January 21-26 2025
Featuring Nosferatu, Tropic Thunder, and accidentally well-timed horror
mailbag
January mailbag
What does Emily think of Martin Scorsese? Of adapting her book? Of AI? Of DUCKS AND HORSES???
2025
How you are going to make it
And you are.
movies
Episodes Tuesday Rundown Jan. 13-20 2025
Episodes 6.0
Submit your January mailbag questions!
movies
In "defense" of the second half of The Brutalist
Just who is this movie about anyway?
books
Episodes Monday Rundown Jan. 6-12 2025
Including: Hard Truths, a Polly Klaas book, and Ethel Cain