11 films that prove you can do sci-fi without special effects, and the rest of our favorite stories this week
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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
- If your movie’s called The Quake, don’t take more than an hour to get to the quake
- The Red Wedding was Game Of Thrones at its gnarly, exploitive best
- Pyramid schemes get ripped apart on Lie, Cheat & Steal, a podcast about bullshitters
Tuesday
- With a few scraps of paper, Game Of Thrones made the War Of The Five Kings irrelevant
- Natalie Morales is done rolling her eyes at sitcom dudes
- Michael C. Hall has gone from laying out bodies to knocking down pins with Documentary Now!
- Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo bites the corporate hand that feeds it
Wednesday
- 11 films that prove you can do sci-fi without special effects
- Eva Green brings wild adult energy to the maligned late-period films of Tim Burton
- Forget The Red Wedding: Joffrey’s nuptials are Game Of Thrones’ true matrimonial disasterpiece
Thursday
- Veep boss David Mandel on Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ return and ending the show while “living in history”
- The Night King confounded Game Of Thrones’ viewers and readers alike upon his debut
- An introduction to the colorful U.K. comedy of What We Do In The Shadows star Matt Berry
Friday
- 20 years later, 10 Things I Hate About You remains a model for how to do the teen rom-com right
- Reminder: Game Of Thrones gives us reason to hope just to take it away
- The Division 2 is a great—wait, no, I just started playing Sekiro again
- 5 new releases we love: Bracingly original pop, lost Motown gems, and more
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