Don't worry. It just sounds like another bad Sharon Stone movie. Kinky Boots trips on its contrived plot, but this blend of trash and sass is a comfy fit. Joel Edgerton (Uncle Owen in Wars II and III) is appealingly cast as Charlie Price, the inheritor of a British shoe factory that's on wobbly financial legs.

Charlie's chance encounter with Simon (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a drag queen who performs under the name of Lola, changes his fortunes. When Charlie makes a pair of industrial-strength stiletto boots for Lola to wear onstage, he finds a lucrative niche market. Director Julian Jarrold keeps the cast stepping lively. His secret weapon is Ejiofor, a stage-trained English actor of Nigerian descent known for his gravitas onscreen in Dirty Pretty Things and Inside Man. If you don't know yet how to pronounce his name (it's chew-it-tell edge-oh-for), get busy. He's a in the making who rocks this sweetly predictable comedy on its nosebleed heels.

“The Pretender”

This song wasn't part of the planned track listing for 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and was put together in a day. "It happened after we recorded a lot of stuff," said Dave Grohl. Yet it ended up as the album opener and the lead single. Grohl called it "a stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it." The singer hinted at the lyrics' political overtones: "Everyone's been f---ed over before and I think a lot of people feel f---ed over right now and they're not getting what they were promised."