The Crimson Rivers, featuring more mutilated, rotting corpses than Seven, is a grisly serial-killer thriller set around a private school in the French Alps. Whodunit? Who cares? Faced with a convoluted plot, director Mathieu Kassovitz (Hate) wisely focuses his attention on the film's two magnetic stars: the hypnotically hangdog Jean Reno as a veteran cop, and the wittily nutso Vincent Cassel as his younger counterpart. They will grab you even when the film merely makes you gag.

“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”