Lily Osler

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown November 3–9 2025

This week: a great concert, a new obsession, and a mildly frustrating romance read.

Yorgos Lanthimos

In Bugonia, power always says "please"

Yorgos Lanthimos' latest movie is a psychedelic nightmare about the ways the powerful use social niceties to pacify their own consciences, writes Lily Osler.

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown October 27–November 2 2025

This week: KPop Demon Hunters, del Toro's Frankenstein, and two different Paranormal Activities

halloween

14 under-the-radar tales to freak you out this Halloween

Including movies, books, podcasts, and asking your friends to tell you a scary story.

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown October 20-26 2025

This week: The Wicker Man, the new Last Dinner Party album, and so much found-footage horror

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown October 13 - 19 2025

This week: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, some horror classics, and Rilo Kiley in concert.

Mailbag

October mailbag!

This month: Which classic Hollywood director could have crushed a found-footage movie? Also: It's spooky season!

movies

American film could use a little more J-horror in it

American horror looking to break clichés should borrow some ideas from Japanese horror films, writes Lily Osler.

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown October 6 - 12 2025

This week: A bunch of movies from 1946, Paul Tremblay's best, and DID YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TAKES THE YEARLING TO SHOW UP IN THE YEARLING? A LONG TIME!!!

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown September 29 - October 5 2025

This week: Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan in concert, and one of the year's best films.

video games

Silksong hates you because it wants to teach you to dance

A game already notorious for its difficulty finds art and beauty amid destruction, Lily Osler writes.

state fair

Need for seed: a quest for the real Minnesota at the state fair

The pop-culture depiction of the state is only sort of right, writes Lily Osler.