Brian Dennehy, Doctor Who, and a look back at ’90s comics: The A.V. Club's best stories of the 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
- A timey-wimey guide to the modern era of Doctor Who
- Robyn, Thom Yorke’s Suspiria score, and 18 more scary-good albums out this month
- Odyssey is Assassin’s Creed at its best
- #CriticsSoWhite: NPR’s Code Switch unpacks the enduring lack of diversity in film criticism
Tuesday
- Brian Dennehy on DiCaprio, Rambo, and why Saoirse Ronan is the most talented actor around
- Murakami, memoirs, and more: 5 books to read in October
- Maniac’s best and bleakest joke is its gig-economy dystopia
- The fresh, the stale, and the outrageously bloody all faced off at Fantastic Fest 2018
Wednesday
- Age of apocalypses: 10 momentous character events in ’90s comics
- Witches, haunted houses, and a few non-horror shows coming to TV this October
Thursday
- Another Halloween, a new Suspiria, and a second Goosebumps outbreak are coming this October
- The Social Network is a masterpiece—does it matter that it bent the truth?
- The Coens offer 6 tales of Old West absurdity and brutality in The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
- The Good Place, annotated: “The Brainy Bunch”
Friday
- Superman returns, but he forgot to bring the action and the fun back with him
- 7 bad guys we love to root for
- Hunting a serial killer through the mail expands the idea of cooperative gaming
- Why do we love Spider-Man so much?
- Lil Wayne’s long-overdue Tha Carter V, plus High On Fire and more in this week’s music reviews
- 5 offerings (that aren’t horror films) to get you in the October spirit
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