movies
Episodes Monday Rundown: January 21-26 2025
Featuring Nosferatu, Tropic Thunder, and accidentally well-timed horror
Mailbag
January mailbag
What does Emily think of Martin Scorsese? Of adapting her book? Of AI? Of DUCKS AND HORSES???
movies
Episodes Tuesday Rundown Jan. 13-20 2025
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
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.
movies
How the Wicked film brings the book's queerness back into the spotlight
It's all about the talking goat.
queer
LGBTQ+ people are not going back
This post is (somehow) about Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.