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February mailbag!

This month: What are Emily's thoughts on all the Oscar contenders? Also: Emily tries to remember what she meant by a thing she wrote several years ago.

Past Lives is a movie that invites you to bring your own regret to the party, and baby, I gotta lotta regret. (Credit: A24)

Resident Evil's world doesn't care about you

The best cosmic horror in years? In a video game movie directed by Zach Cregger? It's more likely than you think

A small child in a purple dress holds a copy of Infinite Jest in front of their face. They stand in front of a bunch of dark green plants and a brick wall.

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Nine

Lily and Emily consider the impossible: might Infinite Jest be... self-involved?

The sign outside of Bedford Falls in It's a Wonderful Life, which reads, helpfully, "You are now in Bedford Falls." It is snowing on the sign.

Beyond Bedford Falls: 15 other fictional small towns we'd love to live in

Including towns full of cartoon ducks, free health care, and monstrous vampires who provide low, low housing costs

Austin Abrams desperately closes a set of double doors on a horde of zombies in Resident Evil.

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil made the game's fans mad. Good.

Widow's Bay is a comedy?! (Yes.) Pan's Labyrinth is good?! (Yes.) Plus: Meet Derek!

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Resident Evil's world doesn't care about you

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Nine

Beyond Bedford Falls: 15 other fictional small towns we'd love to live in

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil made the game's fans mad. Good.