Two eccentric boys form a close, intriguing bond in Michel Gondry’s Microbe & Gasoline.

Think Rocky if Stallone’s classic were set in Brooklyn, beset with low-level mobsters, and also incredibly bad.

I’ve said this to many people over the years, but The Stone Roses remain Manchester’s favorite sons. And so, as it was with 2012’s Heaton Park gigs, that love and devotion means that the city suddenly stops when they show up to play.

What would you do if you were a 24-year-old social media mogul dying of an incurable disease? Larry Ferrell, a billionaire 18 times over in Rob Williams’ immediately engrossing Unfollow, uses his wealth to show humankind’s true colors.

Remember those first few glorious bars of “Seasun” from Delorean’s 2009 breakthrough EP Ayrton Senna? Damn. A huge, synth-driven, sun-soaked, opening statement if there ever was one. They’d been around since 2000, but this was their moment. The Barcelona-based foursome had arrived.

Nothing which can be accurately described as “the dead farty Harry Potter movie” has any business being as oddly moving as this film.

The London electronic duo Plaid have sustained their passion for sound design and relevance in the genre by being equally attentive to the emotive aura and the architecture of their compositions.

César Augusto Acevedo’s debut feature Land and Shade manages to engender both urgency, empathy, and aesthetic satisfaction without compromising its central message.

In Adam Haslett’s sophomore novel, Imagine Me Gone, he follows the life and story of a family touched by loss.