movies

Jun
06
Tim Robinson, clad in a deeply tan suit, sits behind a sweet drum set.

Friendship perfectly captures the crisis of modern masculinity

4 min read
Jun
02
Tim Robinson, in a pure beige coat, clutching a huge soda cup, looks at Paul Rudd, in a colorful jacket. Rudd holds a mushroom.

Episodes Monday Rundown May 26 - June 1 2025

6 min read
May
30
Tom Cruise in a dive suit in a cylindrical room, water roughly up to his waist. It's lit by fluorescents. It looks cold.

The protagonist of reality

12 min read
May
26
The shark from Jaws lunges up onboard a boat, gobbling away at the various pieces of flotsam and equipment there.

Episodes Monday Rundown May 19 - 25 2025

6 min read
May
19
The cover of Emily Henry's Great Big Beautiful Life features a woman reading and a man gazing up at her from where he's writing.

Episodes Monday Rundown May 12 - 18 2025

7 min read
May
16
Hailee Steinfeld and Michael B. Jordan star in Sinners. They're in an embrace, heads tilted back in ecstasy, in a wood-paneled room.

May mailbag

10 min read
May
12
Christopher Reeve in full Superman suit -- complete with red cape -- floats in front of the New York skyline.

Episodes Monday Rundown May 5 - 11 2025

6 min read
May
05
Emma Stone stars in Easy A. She's wearing a black bustier with a red A on the boob. She's holding sunglasses.

Episodes Monday Rundown April 28 - May 4 2025

5 min read
May
02
The characters of Sinners arm themselves and face the door of the juke joint as they wait for monsters to pour in.

The meaning of the [spoilers] in Sinners

9 min read
Apr
28
Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, and Sigourney Weaver star in Galaxy Quest.

Episodes Monday Rundown April 21-27 2025

6 min read