Here’s a compilation of our favorite features we published this week.
Monday
- John Cusack is the worst planet-destroying AI robot in history
- 30 For 30 Podcasts throws a spotlight on yoga’s #MeToo moment—and hands its survivors a loudspeaker
- The deliciously nasty Vampyr feels like a game from another era
Tuesday
- The Truman Show was a delusion that came true
- Why aren’t you watching Humans?
- Peep Show’s Robert Webb on the power and affection of the word “cunt”
- The unclassifiable Kill List is an unsettling odyssey to the dark side
Wednesday
- Self-realization before sunrise: 18 movies about coming of age in under 24 hours
- Reality turns into nightmare in the underappreciated horror classic Jacob’s Ladder
- The Handmaid’s Tale explores the fascinating yet frustrating Serena Joy
Thursday
- Fallout’s best vault elected to tell the series’ darkest story
- Sharing a room with Stewart Lupton of Jonathan Fire*Eater
- Liz Phair kept writing great songs after Exile In Guyville
- Pontypool puts a wicked intellectual twist on a horror trope
Friday
- Breakfast At Tiffany’s is so much more than a fashionable proto-Sex And The City
- Hooked on Hereditary’s spooky power? Check out director Ari Aster’s fucked-up short films
- Onrush is a chaotic, high-speed racing game that isn’t a racing game at all
- Necrophilia and human centipedes: 9 works of pop culture we avoid on reputation alone