15 creative ways to kill Hitler, Batman & Robin revisited: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

By The A.V. Club | June 2, 2018 | 11:00am

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15 creative ways to kill Hitler, Batman & Robin revisited: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

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Here’s a compilation of our favorite features we published this week.

Monday

Pulp, Team Dresch, and Autechre were the true alternative in 1995
Somewhere in the Super Mario Bros. movie is a vision that’s weird enough to work

Tuesday

Mario Tennis, a Jurassic Park builder, and more games to play in June
David Sedaris on his most overrated book and how bad people can make good art
In Out Of Sight, Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney made a perfect couple on opposite sides of the law

Wednesday

Fuck off, Adolf: 15 creative ways to kill Hitler
Drake, Neko Case, and a deluge of Kanye: The 38 most-anticipated albums of June
QWOP turned failure into comedy and found viral immortality
Barbara Stanwyck is a grifter who swipes hearts in The Lady Eve

Thursday

Ocean’s 8, an Incredible family, and a whole Jurassic World of dinosaurs invade theaters this June
The Americans showrunners have a few topics they really don’t want to discuss
Eventually, Blues Traveler’s “Run-Around” will come for us all
You don’t get a bead on Drug War’s snitch until the electrifying final shootout

Friday

Batman & Robin is the silliest superhero blockbuster, but is it really the worst?
Ikaruga on the Switch is a perfect introduction to the beauty of bullet-hell games
Father John Misty, LUMP, The Dreebs, and more albums to know about this week
Lost In Space made you cry? 8 works of pop culture that didn’t earn these reactions
Love And Rockets concludes its Locas reunion with bittersweet nostalgia
Chow Yun-fat rose to stardom as a scene-stealing rogue in an early John Woo classic

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