Aliens rip the bloody hell out of gangbangers in the London projects. Done on the indie cheap with untold riches in ballsy imagination, this knockout creature feature busts the Hollywood chops of Cowboys & Aliens. It's hot, fierce, funny, vicious and ready to bite, baby. Attack gets its teeth from writer-director Joe Cornish, in a smashing debut. Keep an eye on John Boyega, 19, a fireball with serious acting skills. He plays Moses, the leader of a gang that mugs a nurse (Jodie Whittaker) and ends up the block's only chance against furry aliens with DayGlo chompers and startling symbolic heft. OK, no more spoilers. This movie wants and needs to come at you like a beast in the dark. Allow it.

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“Alison”

On Elvis Costello’s country-tinged ballad, the lyric does not get too sentimental in recalling an ex who had since been with one of the singer's "little friends" and is now married. Some believe the song is about murder, due to lines like “Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking,” "Somebody better put out the big light" and, of course, "My aim is true,” which became the title of Costello's debut album. In 2002, Costello told Rolling Stone, “It isn’t [about murder]. It’s about disappointing somebody. It’s a thin line between love and hate, as the Persuaders sang.”