China Miéville, shoestring budget superheroics, crazy anime, gritty sci-fi, and mutant psychic weirdness.

Also: Liu Kang and Shang Tsung, Jack Sparrow, South Korean superheroics, Sam Raimi noir, and The Man With No Name.

Also: Black Panther, the Silver Surfer, Chris Rock’s Netflix special, the web’s building blocks, back to blogging, and the benefits of social media sharing.

Delicate acoustic folk, spaced out synth jams, contemplative ambience, and soulful electronic pop.

This will be the first new music from the Violets since 2011.

Also: Black Christians and white churches, Mamoru Oshii, Hulu’s satanic panic, wormholes, Stephen Hawking, Spotify, and understanding tech.

Miracle’s darkly elegant music takes the sounds of the ’80s and reshapes them into strange and thrillingnew forms.

Fine China return after thirteen years with some of their best songs to date. Elegant, wistful pop of the finest sort.

Michael Jai White takes blaxploitation to the Old West, a trippy new horror film, and Netflix remakes another classic series.

MagentaMantaLoveTree is a sprawling, uneven album that’s by turns fascinating and frustrating, impassioned and inconsistent.

The Sentinel of the Spaceways might finally get a good movie and the First Avenger gets an acclaimed new writer.

Also: Sin and the internet, Netflix’s Dark, Amazon, the Babylon Bee, the Book of Jonah, abortion and politics, and Christian martyr fantasies.