Many deem Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel Tristram Shandy to be unreadable. You might also call it unfilmable if the devilishly clever director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) hadn't figured out how to do it. He and screenwriter Martin Hardy dream up a film-within-a-film scenario in which the incomparably funny Steve Coogan (playing himself, Tristram and Tristram's dad, Walter Shandy) fights with his co-star Rob Brydon (playing himself and Toby Shandy, Tristram's uncle) about what the novel means and how much screen hogging the other is doing. It sounds confusing, but it's really inventive and bizarre end marvelously entertaining. You learn all sorts of academic things about the novel, along with raucous real-life bits about Coogan and lap dancers. Lillian Anderson and Jeremy Northam add to the wicked mischief in ways I couldn't possibly explain. Don't ask me.

“My President”

Young Jeezy teams up with Nas on this track, in which he compare his own success with the idea of an African-American winning the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 presidential election. "When I pulled up in my car, that s--- was unbelievable to people in my neighborhood because they were like, 'We grew up with him. How the hell did he accomplish this?'" he told Rolling Stone. "I feel like it was the same way with Obama. I grew up all this time, but I've never seen a black man this close to running this country."