With Red Velvet Underground, Freda Love Smith (Blake Babies, Antenna, Mysteries of Life) sets her personal narrative in the context of food, cooking, and the connection they have to family, music, and life.

The Hallow combines the city-folk-besieged-by-rural-horror of Straw Dogs with the dark fairytale appropriation of Pan’s Labyrinth and the grotesque practical monster effects of The Thing and Alien.

Remember that band that you were going to start? You guys were going to get together to make party music and just have a great time playing raging guitar solos at backyard BBQs.

At some point between Tio Bitar and 4, Gustav Ejstes and Dungen shifted the ratio of their psych-prog potion to decidedly prog. That’s cool, I guess, but 2010’s Skit i allt, lacked the urgency of Ta Det Lungt. Ain’t no gettin’ around it.

Grant Morrison’s The Multiversity is challenging to say the least. Rather than a straightforward linear adventure, it serves more as a linchpin for a handful of different stories as they face a new threat from an unseen force known as The Gentry.

Car Seat Headrest is the moniker of Will Toledo, a young Virginia musician who has been self-releasing albums on his Bandcamp page for years. He makes lo-fi, fuzzy pop-rock, with an emphasis on “lo.” His first release for a label, Teens of Style, is a collection of reworked songs from his musical past, and he has an album of new material set to be released next year.

A journalistic investigation of pedophilia within the Catholic Church is at the center of Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight: a riveting, well-cast drama worthy of its early Oscar buzz.

Aziz Ansari—forever memorable as Parks and Recreation‘s fast-talking, business-minded, materialistic Tom Haverford—teams up with Parks and Recreation co-executive producer Alan Yang on Master of None, a new Netflix series. Ansari, who also writes and directs the new series, stars as Dev, a 30-year-old aspiring actor navigating career and personal life in New York City.

Manson Family Vacation is an atypical and supremely heart-filled road trip in disguise.