Magician charts Orson Welles’ rise from theatre’s enfant terrible to cinema’s wunderkind following his debut feature, Citizen Kane.

In a few weeks, the Grateful Dead will cap a 50-year anniversary with five concerts, split between California and Chicago. In Deal, founding drummer Bill Kreutzmann details the long strange trip that began in 1965.

There’s nothing the Brits like more than hyping one of their own. It’s a trait that explains why so few U.K. bands make it past album number two-by the time they’ve delivered a follow up, fickle tastemakers have already moved on to the latest hot piece of stuff. And then nobody listens.

Jonathan Green is an enlightenment era scientist and explorer out for adventure, when he stumbles upon a Ukrainian village plagued by witches and demons.

Robert Goodin (who is currently an animator on American Dad) weaves a unique and magical yarn in his latest graphic novel, The Kurdles. Sally is a teddy bear callously discarded from the family car on a road trip by the bratty child she belongs to.

Benny and Josh Safdie are the rare contemporary filmmakers who don’t demand us to like-or even necessarily empathize with-their subjects. If they ask anything of their audience, it’s that we simply observe their characters and let our fascination take us where it may.

While what made The xx so special was the trifecta of vocalist, bassist, and producer, it was the latter, Jamie Smith, who was always destined to take his skills elsewhere.

I only have memories of listening to Tanlines in summer months, which led me to mistakenly believe they timed each of their first three releases (two EPs and one LP) to coincide with the arrival of warm weather following demoralizing cold winters.

After playing Enter the Ninja‘s villain, martial arts star Sho Kosugi returned to play an all-new hero character in 1983’s Revenge of the Ninja, which mustered even more senselessly violent ninja action and baffling plot turns than its predecessor.