New Releases

Since the interlude riff is a clear homage to the distinctive appregio "Mr Brightside," it's fitting that "Miss Atomic Bomb" is a sequel to that classic video. Izabella Miko and Eric Roberts reprise their Brightside roles — she's the stunning ingenue and he's the disreputable skeeze who twirls her away from her true love, Killers singer Brandon Flowers. The story is mainly told through animated flashbacks — think a less trippy/dirty Heavy Metal — from a much older Flowers who's apparently the only person in a desert trailer not making meth. --> watch "Miss Atomic Bomb"

If the old saying is "rock 'n' roll will never die," then maybe it also applies to UK revivalists Heavens's Basement. Even when they're sitting ducks in a high-stakes shooting gallery — bound, blindfolded and ready to die execution style — they manage to evade all the bullets and get saved for another day. Long live rock, indeed. 

A loving ode to the inherent awkwardness of performing on a chat show, especially of the vintage, Public Access variety. --> "I'm Not Talking"

A.C. Newman "I'm Not Talking" (Matador)The General Assembly, director | Frenchie Alburtis, producer | Honey Badger, production co | Charles Son, DP | Joseph Remerowski, editor | Nigel Mogg, art director | John Benson, Gower Frost, exec. producers

In the end you'll be greeted by angels and they'll be in the form of the ones you love. And you'll be reborn.

That's the definition of Solace in this gorgous short film by Floria Sigismondi, with actor John Hawkes as a man mourning the loss of his daughter, played by Elle Fanning. It's a gorgous piece of filmmaking with a painfully expressive performance by Hawkes, and a very fitting end (and/or rebirth) to the Valtari mystery film series. --> watch "Leaning Toward Solace"

Someone's on the run and a fuse has been lit in this shiny, yet sludgy and space-age, yet organic video for Shiny Toy Guns. --> watch "Somewhere To Hide"

A woman waits along the shoreline for her lover to return from outer space, paddling out to save him once she sees a flare indicating his descent, not realizing that she might be the one in need of rescue. --> watch "The Afterman"

Shadow puppets are a time-honored camping tradition, unless they're being cast by monsters lurking outside the tent. But, that might be least of her worries for the youngster in this nightmarish (yet fun) clip once it becomes clear there's also a haunting inside the tent.--> watch "Sirens"