Alan Cumming, Avengers, and pop culture to know about in May: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week
Aux Features The Week In FeaturesHere’s a compilation of our favorite features we published this week.
Monday
- Infinity War’s ending packs a wallop, if you don’t think about it too hard
- St. Vincent, No Age, and Yeasayer were the next wave of 2007
- Android panic in Detroit: 8 new games to play in May, plus a bunch of old ones
- An openly gay superhero deserves better than Bruce Vilanch and Soup Nazi cameos
- John Mulaney on the origins of “Lobster Diner,” his new walk, and bringing Kid Gorgeous to Netflix
- The New York Times’ new podcast, Caliphate, illuminates ISIS for a Western audience
Tuesday
- Let’s talk about the secret villain of Avengers: Infinity War
- Ask an indie rock veteran: How do you play with a migraine?
- From Beach House to Courtney Barnett, our 23 most-anticipated albums of May
- Alan Cumming on The Good Wife, The Great Gazoo, and how Stanley Kubrick reinvigorated his interest in acting
- God Of War is a great game about terrible dads
Wednesday
- What’s so funny?: 25 singers cracking up at their own songs
- Spelunky mashed up two wildly different genres—and invented a perfect game
- “You know she’ll fight like hell”: Sometimes the Handmaid’s Tale is a real mother
Thursday
- Han Solo, Deadpool, and Melissa McCarthy dominate the May movie calendar
- How the hell are we supposed to care about Ant-Man And The Wasp now?
- Did YouTube’s Karate Kid follow-up Cobra Kai sweep us off our feet?
Friday
- What the hell were any of us thinking making the terrible Batman Forever a huge hit?
- Jon Hopkins, DJ Koze, and more albums to know about this week
- What was the first pop culture you collected as a kid?
- The Mighty Thor’s conclusion signals the end of a Marvel Comics era
- Vida offers a captivating twist on TV’s immigration and gentrification stories