Wild Tales might be pitched as a tale of rock excess, but it is more about one man’s unrelenting love of music and how it transformed his life.

Big Star was a life-changing band. The truth is, it still is. The recent documentary on the band, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, is an essential document of the what, how, and ultimate why of this fact.

Imagine Dexter, only recombined as a gloriously stylized feature length Italian film from the early ‘70s, and that still doesn’t scrape the surface of the awesome Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Elio Petri.

Aside from the odd sludgier moment, Oozing Wound plays a frantic, punkish, riff-heavy brand of snotty thrash, with nothing so pifflingly compromising as a chorus or so cringingly onanistic as a guitar solo.

Some Velvet Morning is at best a missed opportunity and mercifully, a short one.

Fela Kuti’s death in 1997, caused by a sarcoma he developed while suffering from AIDS, continues to have an impact on the world in Africa and beyond. The musical inspired by his life, FELA!, has been a Broadway hit, and his back catalogue has been re-released to millions of new fans.

Brian Azzarello’s wild, violent run on Wonder Woman continues with this collection comprising Wonder Woman #0 and #13-17. Wonder Woman and her demigod siblings (all progeny of Zeus; yes, that Zeus) are after a mysterious baby that may or may not bring about the doom of humankind.

Simon Killer, directed by Antonio Campos (Afterschool), is a stark glimpse at the metamorphosis of a borderline misogynist into a full-blown sociopath. Brady Corbet dazzles as the titular Simon, an American studying abroad and seeking to forget his ex-girlfriend via a sordid journey into increasingly violent and dangerous sexual encounters.

Diane Coffee is the alter ego of Shaun Fleming, recently seen behind Foxygen’s drumkit. Fleming—who also had a spell voicing Disney characters in shows like Kim Possible—put together his Coffee debut, My Friend Fish, in two weeks.