For over 80 years, Superman has been one of the most powerful beings in American comics. Nigh invulnerable, endowed with super-speed, flight, laser eye beams, and a host of other abilities, there’s little he can’t do.

Following on the heels of 2014’s explosive Hour of the Dawn, La Sera (now officially a duo with band leader and former Vivian Girls bassist Katy Goodman teaming up with Hour of the Dawn producer and guitarist Todd Wisenbaker) returns with their Polyvinyl debut after three albums for the Hardly Art label.

Roar Uthaug’s The Wave centers around seismic geologist Kristian and his struggle to save his family and his town from the collapse of a majestically unstable Norwegian mountain.

Voted by Italian critics to be one of the 100 most important Italian films ever made, the film underwent a bit of a rediscovery earlier this year.

After original frontman Daniel Blumberg departed Yuck between the 2011 debut and 2013’s follow-up Glow & Behold, the London four-piece carried on and promoted guitarist Max Bloom to band leader. It was an unusual move and one that has saddled the band with possibly unfair comparisons to itself.

Khosrow Vaziri, a.k.a. The Iron Sheik, has always had heat.

In Know Your Beholder, Adam Rapp presents the thought provoking, humorous tale of Francis Falbo, a disheveled mess of a man who yearns for redemption amid a life that has been less than charmed.

There is a strange parallel between Suede and David Bowie. Both made comebacks in 2013 after decade-long absences-the former with Bloodsports, the latter with The Next Day. Both were warmly hailed as successes even if they did not have fans falling over themselves, and it felt fitting given that Suede were probably the closest thing Britpop ever had to Bowie’s androgynous outsider.

Paul Verhoeven’s Tricked is a half-documentary, half-narrative film operating off of an interesting “what-if.”