A tragic accident brings three unlikely people together, all already dealing with a past deeply scarred by their own misdemeanours or the vagaries of fate. Obsession, revenge, loneliness, and redemption are all themes dealt with in Inarritu's English language debut, a remarkably powerful and deeply effecting drama, 21 Grams is a grimly beautiful film, carried along by three spellbinding performances. find out more...

A fascinating biopic of Francis Bacon, concentrating on his relationship with George Dyer, a burglar whom he caught in his house and promptly seduced, whose amorality and innocence he found attractive and whom he introduced to his Soho pals. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking, pill popping and nightmares strain the relationship in this clash between the arty, boozy Soho set and the East End criminal fraternity, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints and talks wit find out more...

Based on the real life misdventures of Jackie Prey, tattooist and frontwoman of the working class LA band Clamdandy, this is an all-out estrojam, heavy on the drama with great performances. Gershon leads the team as the bisexual Jackie accompanied by 'Sopranos' moll Drea De Matteo as a strung out trust fund baby and Lori Petty who queers it up as the band's 'too sweet' drummer. The story has to be true because no one would believe that so many tragedies could befall one group of people but behol find out more...

A visually brilliant film about teenage gangs in America's urban wasteland. The leader of a small dying gang, Rusty James, lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother - The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. One of Coppola's two adaptations of S E Hinton novels, 'The Outsiders' being the other. A great performance from Dillon and an awesome soundtrack. find out more...

Tracy's suffering from an intense bout of self-conscious peer-pressure and there is seemingly no lengths she won't go to in order to ingratiate herself with the coolest kids in class. Soon enough Tracy is best buddies with Evie and so begins a spiral into petty crime and drugs, an uncontrollable descent that leaves Tracy's mother horrified and impotent. 'Thirteen' is a powerful and unflinching story that explains the allure as much as it shows the destruction, and is based on the teenage exper find out more...

Steve Buscemi ("Reservoir Dogs", "Fargo") makes his directorial debut, casting himself as the kind of scrounging, shitespouting sleazeball everyone avoids down the pub. A terminal loser, his future looks even worse when he inherits an ice-cream van and a teenage Lolita offers her assistance. Brilliant. find out more...

A brief skim over Johnny Cash's childhood in rural Arkansas and then we leap into his early career, powering along through the highs and lows until we reach 1968, a good time for the legendary balladeer and a perfect place to end a biog on a high note. Walk The Line is a film made by the two central performances of Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. The live scenes are hypnotic and the chemistry between the two never less than utterly convincing. Like 'Ray' this is a film that smoothes over find out more...