Unlicensed detective Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) is hired by a goody two-shoes blonde to find her missing punker brother (Corey Feldman).

In 1912 Britain, the suffragettes had a simple goal: the right to vote.

People tend to think of an artist’s side-project as having less credibility than his main output vehicle, but that should not be the case for EL VY. A partnership made up of Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls, EL VY makes highly polished studio indie pop.

Battle-weary Frank Braykey (William Sadler) is the lone guardian of an ancient key.

My daughter Rose is just a little over two and a half years old, but she’s already the veteran of three SXSWs. Granted, she was only two and a half months old when she first attended the Austin music conference and spent most of the time in a hotel room with her grandmother, but in her second and third SXSW adventures she did witness a bit of live music at Under the Radar’s SXSW parties.

Female superheroes haven’t gotten much of a break in terms of TV and film adaptations. Most female-fronted comic book movies have been poorly received (2005’s Elektra, 2004’s Catwoman, 1984’s Supergirl). They haven’t fared much better on the small screen, unless you count iZombieand Agent Carter (who aren’t even really superheroes, per se, but are great examples of what the genre could be).

Like its protagonist, Asthma is doomed by how small of an imprint every aspect leaves.

Real Estate frontman Martin Courtney‘s solo debut, Many Moons, immediately announces itself as the finest side-project from a member of the band’s camp. However, that’s the only thing this record does do instantaneously. You could listen to the album-opener “Awake” about a dozen times before Courtney’s languid soloing suddenly strikes you as an essential part of the composition.

Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan tapped into another side of himself when he joined fellow Brits, production duo Soulsavers, for their 2012 album, The Light the Dead See. A noted shift away from the dance-pop electronics of his primary group, Soulsavers’ dusty, organic sounds allowed Gahan to bare his soul and forced the listener to bare theirs.