Here’s a compilation of our favorite features we published this week.
Monday
- Weird Al emerged, post-punk exploded, and DJing matured in 1981
- YouTube’s Topless Baker dishes on all things GBBO in Bake Off, Undressed
- Sing-alongs and bare asses: Nostalgia ruled at this year’s Riot Fest
- Ben Schwartz and Kat Graham on Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the perfect reboot
- We’re liveblogging the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards
Tuesday
- The Road, A Quiet Place, and the golden age of prepper pop culture
- The best, worst, and weirdest games from Castlevania’s 30-year history
- Nicole Holofcener on Ben Mendelsohn, Catherine Keener, and saying “ugh” to superhero films
Wednesday
- 60 minutes proving De La Soul is one of hip-hop’s greats—but its legacy is in danger
- Ghosts can do it: 8 pop cultural instances of human-on-ghost love
Thursday
- The A.V. Club’s 11 most-anticipated TV shows of fall 2018
- Mandy and Beyond The Black Rainbow share a lot more than the year 1983
Friday
- Christopher Nolan dragged Batman (and superhero cinema) into a more serious “real” world
- The Bard’s Tale IV makes you fight tooth and nail for its dungeon-crawling goodness
- A rare view of Prince, plus Metric and more in this week’s new music
- 7 overplayed songs that still make us happy in movie trailers
- Batman: Damned strips down the Dark Knight for a revealing thriller