Money, madness, incest and murder! Just the recipe for a twisted mesmerizer of a movie, if it doesn't creep you out. It's the true story of Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore), a social climber who marries Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), the heir to a plastics empire, and proceeds to, well, just watch and hold your jaw up with both hands. Director Tom Kalin (Swoon) is a huge talent, and working from a script that Howard Rodman carved out of a book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, he uses dark humor and artful style to pull you into a tale of the rich abusing their privileges. Barbara dotes on her gay son, Tony (the excellent Eddie Redmayne), with boundary-shattering intensity. From Tony's birth in 1946 to Barbara's murder in 1972, Savage Grace travels the world with aother and son only Tennessee Williams could love. Moore delivers a toure de force, shocking when Barbara straddles her son and offers to suck him off when he can't come and savagely moving in her haunting delineation of Barbara's journey from loneliness to mania. Kalin's toxic baby exerts perverse fascination.

“1999”

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.