Catch up on 1999 Week and the rest of our favorite recent stories

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

Monday

• It’s 1999 Week here at The A.V. Club, so let’s see how deep the rabbit hole goes
• Hey now, they’re all stars: Sigur Rós, MF Doom, Le Tigre, and other under-heard hits of 1999
• Why isn’t Hobbs & Shaw more fun?
• Amazon’s The Boys illustrates the limitations of satirizing superheroes outside the comics page

Tuesday

• 1999 was Cash Money’s turn to shine
• The best movies of 1999

Wednesday

• What films deserved to make our “best of 1999” list?
• The best and worst of Magnolia’s multiple melodramas

Thursday

• Star Wars v. Matrix, Santana v. Smash Mouth, and Y2K panic: 21 windows into 1999
• How American Beauty lost the title of 1999’s best movie
• Power chords and Pennywise: 90 minutes of 1999’s best pop punk

Friday

• 2001: A Space Odyssey pushed blockbuster cinema to a new plane of star-child brilliance
• In 1999, video game writing hit a high-water mark
• Dedication, animation, and Passions: 24 hours of 1999 TV

• 5 new releases we love: Drake issues an all-timer, Marika Hackman keeps it raw, and more