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Loopy but glossy, this heist movie plays like a camp classic searching for its cult. Jason (Stahl), who has wandered in from some Reality Bites remake, goes to the bank to take out his last 20 bucks or maybe just to whine about his ATM fees.

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The titular establishment dodders along on a shabby corner in Passaic, New Jersey. It's a neighborhood video store whose owner -- called Mr. Fletcher, as if this were Sesame Street, and portrayed by Danny Glover in grumpy grandpa mode -- continues to stock VHS tapes. Exclusively.

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Adapting her memoir into a starkly beautiful animated feature, comics artist Marjane Satrapi braids personal history and national tragedy.

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T.H. White -- who writes, plays, and arranges virtually all the tracks here -- shows a gift for titillating, slinky melodies ("Private People," with willowy vocals by Law & Order's Meghan Wolf, could soundtrack a salacious New York club crawl).

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It's a long, uphill battle for straight-up, fundamentally solid rock bands like the Whigs, who attempt to uncover new hooks in well-worn territory, rather than resort to studio gimmicks, haircuts, or Nickelback-trademarked mmrrryeahhh vocals.

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Bordeaux-born Melanie Valera chased her libido through 2005's sappy The Soft and the Hardcore, and now she sounds un petit disgusted with herself. Her second album is still rife with musings about lovers and secret kisses, but her lilting voice carries a new off-key harshness that complicates matters. Combined with brisk piano and twee synth, the self-loathing-Siouxsie act almost works.