Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown September 1 - 7 2025
This week: Akira Kurosawa, John Wayne, and Sabrina Carpenter. Legends all!
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown August 25 - 31 2025
This week: Sabrina Carpenter, '90s Trek, and two great video essays.
movies
Episodes Monday Rundown August 18 - 24 2025
This week: folk horror, not-so-scary monsters, and giant moths. In three different projects!
Mailbag
August mailbag
This month: Greta Gerwig's How I Met Your Dad, The Addams Family, and bad advice.
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown August 11 - 17 2025
This week: Eddington, Alien: Earth, and Strange New Worlds fanservice
horror
What Weapons is "about"
Zach Cregger's excellent and very funny new horror film hides a dark and lonely core.
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown August 4 - 10 2025
This week: Princess Mononoke! Weapons! A much larger number of lepers than usual for this feature.
books
What if it's supposed to be bad?
Artists make choices. What if those choices are intentionally off-putting?
movies
Episodes Monday Rundown July 28 - August 3 2025
This week: The Naked Gun, a lovely new romance novel, and TWO Star Treks!
superhero movies
Somebody save me
Superman and Thunderbolts get back to superhero basics: saving people from certain death.
movies
Episodes Monday Rundown July 21 - 27 2025
This week: The terrific debut feature I Like Movies, The Batman, and Spock's wedding(??!)
movies
From the archives: The Times' 1933 review of King Kong: The 8th Wonder Of The World
Renowned stage critic Frankfort Whitaker goes ape for the latest musical spectacular.