movies

Episodes Monday Rundown March 24 - 30 2025

Including assorted Taylor Swift movies, the new Japanese Breakfast album, and Severance season 1.

movies

What piece of culture should get its own "biopic"?

A question for the group

movies

Episodes Monday Rundown March 17 - 23 2025

Emily's in the hospital, but what better time to watch stuff?

mailbag

March mailbag

This month: Good acting in bad movies! Bad accent work! And how to call out from work!

politics

Hypothetical voters

What happens when the people you most want to vote for you are fictional characters?

rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown March 10 - 16 2025

Including: Yellowjackets, Chappell Roan, and lesbian witches. (These are all the same thing.)

Episodes 6.0

Submit your March mailbag questions!

It's that time again.

criticism

Who is criticism for?

Not me, that's for sure!

rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown March 3 - 9 2025

This week: a wonderful Canadian film, a heterosexual romance, and a creepy YouTube channel.

tall girl

Woe to the tall girl. (The tall girl is me.)

Or: I transitioned, and all I got was this lousy height dysphoria.

horror

Empty horror: A recent string of films underlines the weariness of American life (repost)

The Empty Man and The Smiley Face Killers explore a world that is devoid of meaning and utterly hopeless.

books

Woodworking is here! Come see me on my book tour!

Did you know I wrote a novel???? I don't know if I've mentioned it before.