Mamma Mia!, Nathan Fillion, and 25 essential baby books: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

By The A.V. Club | July 21, 2018 | 11:00am

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Mamma Mia!, Nathan Fillion, and 25 essential baby books: 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

Ant-Man And The Wasp’s mid-credits stinger is the best possible use of Marvel’s long-running tactic
Moving out from “The Middle”: 60 minutes of eternal adolescence with Jimmy Eat World
Chris Rock as a white man, freaky Fridays: The Swapcast celebrates the body-swap tropes we know and love

Tuesday

The 25 essential baby books every nursery should have
Spielberg’s Jaws adaptation cut the mafia and sex subplots—and made movie history

Wednesday

Joe Dante, Keith David, and Jello Biafra kick off our coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival
And now the inevitable, anticlimactic conclusion of Dan In Real Life 2

Thursday

Nathan Fillion on being a Monkees fan and why he gets nervous in a crowd of drinkers
Chaka Khan’s first track in 10 years shows she’s still got it
The scam industry: How the hip-hop boom sets hopefuls up for failure
Let us consider Toad, whatever the hell he is

Friday

You can dance, you can jive, you can love Mamma Mia! without feeling embarrassed
Mothergunship makes building your own ridiculous guns just as fun as using them
The works of pop culture we want to experience on our deathbed
The Internet, Skeletonwitch, and more albums to know about this week

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