movies
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
open thread
What pop culture are you looking forward to in 2025?
I'm looking forward to Superman, a new Japanese Breakfast album, and (sigh) the next Avatar movie
movies
Notes from Pride Rock
An esteemed British naturalist observes a series of events most curious.
rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown: Jan. 1 - 5 2025
Speed Racer, Nickel Boys, and two of 2024's most acclaimed novels.
movies
A Complete Unknown complicates the biopic antagonist
Is Bob Dylan the antagonist of his own biopic? Maybe!
movies
The Wild Robot and Flow present oddly hopeful post-apocalypses
What does the world look like after humans? Two animated films have some ideas.
mailbag
December mailbag!
What's the difference between a New Year's movie and a Christmas movie? Also: the Muppets AND The Polar Express.
emily rogers
How to make hot dogs
My recipe blogging cis self confronts the darkness at the heart of the multiverse.
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Submit your December mailbag questions!
It's that time again!