Gustave Flaubert’s famous novel of misery and adultery comes to the screen for at least the 10^th time in filmmaker Sophie Barthes’ poetically-filmed adaptation.

Beyond that excellently coined acronym-cum-moniker, the coming together of Franz Ferdinand and Sparks feels like a perfect match. Both are successful art rock outfits (albeit from different eras) with a penchant for the preposterous and both are widely assumed to have seen the back of their heydays.

A compact but well-done tribute to a beloved American institution.

With his thick baritone, the Pennsylvania native paints a new gallery of grim, lyrical portraits of lonely outsiders and anomalous weirdos.

The Nightmare, about sleep paralysis, is Rodney Ascher’s follow up to his debut feature documentary Room 237.

VHS: Video Cover Art contains over 240 full-page, full-color sleeve scans, divided into categories as all-encompassing as those you’d have found in the local rental shop: Action, Comedy, Horror, Kids, Sci-Fi, and Thriller.

The Jesus and Mary Chain meets Led Zeppelin meets Beach House. Post-punk feminist Weezer. Best Coast with a personality. When it comes to describing PINS, a vast array of comparisons can crop up, but far from being derivative, such an amalgamation of influences results in a band that sounds very little like any of their peers.

The post-apocalyptic world is an incredibly bleak and dreary place in Josh Simmons’ latest graphic novel, Black River. In less than 110 pages, Simmons creates a dismal, hopeless world, in which humanity has lost its principles, its scruples, and any sense of real hope.

While many musicians are happy to stick a “na-na-na,” a “baby, baby” or any old throwaway rubbish over their thoughtless three-chord ditties, Jenny Hval is determined to push her language just as far as her music.