What films deserved to make our “best of 1998” list?
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Takashi Miike’s take on Heart Of Darkness is a lot more mellow than you'd think
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Hello Pi, farewell Phil Hartman: 12 indelible pop culture moments from 1998
This week’s question is in honor of 1998 Week here at The A.V. Club:
The best movies of 1998
Talking ants. Unlikely detectives. Pigs in the city. Shakespeare in love. In 1998, the movies found room for all of the…
Sliding Doors split life in two for Gwyneth Paltrow
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Sex, cities, sock puppets, superheroes, and short skirts: 24 hours of 1998 TV
The TV of 1998 feels more like the end of something than the beginning. Dawson’s Creek and Will & Grace were pointing…
Mulan’s gender politics haven’t aged so gracefully
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Seinfeld ends, TRL begins, Titanic goes on and on: 17 pop culture windows into 1998
To those who would call its political satire toothless, Saturday Night Live’s March 14, 1998 episode presented an…
In 1998, rap-rock and nü-metal really did seem like the future
On August 18, 1998, two albums were released that would migrate two misunderstood genres from minor curiosities to…
Metal Gear Solid’s greatest death scene is your own
Say what you will about auteur theory, but some artists demand it. Take Hideo Kojima, whose 1998 masterpiece Metal Gear…
Bulworth’s politics remain timely, even if Warren Beatty’s awful rapping doesn’t
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In the feminist fairy tales of 1998, the princess saves herself
“A woman’s heart is an ocean of secrets.” Titanic’s unofficial thesis receives flak to this day, as 21 years of…
Lauryn Hill’s Miseducation is more than a crossover—it’s a beacon
A baby and a breakup. The catalysts for one of the most celebrated albums of 1998 are of some the most difficult and…
Hype Williams’ love of hip-hop animates the hallucinatory, underrated Belly
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20 years of maligning Monica Lewinsky: Slate’s Slow Burn looks back on the Clinton scandal
Twice a month, Mary Kay McBrayer and Maegan Stone Brooks analyze horror movies “because no one wants to be scared…
1998 somehow brought us boy bands, nü-metal, and Neutral Milk Hotel
1. Next, “Too Close”
2. Brandy and Monica, “The Boy Is Mine”
3. Shania Twain, “You’re Still The One”
4. Savage Garden,…
Wes Anderson walks the line between nerd and hipster in his films with Jason Schwartzman
Is Wes Anderson a nerd? In 2018, plenty of people would reach for other words first: hipster, twee, problematic (who…