How far does macho male bonding go? Well take 'the laidback, stunted heroes of a Judd Apatow comedy and strand them in the too-cool-for-school environs of a zero-budget mumblecore romance? And then got them to have sex on camera?'. That's about as far as it goes... Artist Andrew has been living a spirited life so when he turns up at old college mate Ben's gaff, he derides him for his white picket fence life-style.To save Ben from marital castration Andrew drags him off to meet some bohemian fr find out more...

A superb study by the brilliant Sayles of a married woman who realises she is gay. She falls in love with Ruth, is shunned by her husband and straight friends, and suffers huge emotional upheaval. Sparkling dialogue, tender characters, superb acting and some real comedy. A touch of directorial genius. find out more...

Absolutely amazing film from the master of confusion. One girl is amnesiac after a traffic accident she walked away from, the other is a too good to be true little Miss Perfect recently arrived in LA from Canada, and the two set out, against the background of a corrupt film industry, to discover the former's identity, and in doing so open a Pandora's Box. Professionally made, brilliantly scripted, great cameo characters, some amazing scenes, (and containing one of the most erotic lesbian scenes find out more...

If you thought Hedwig and the Angry Inch was a film unlike any other you'd seen before, get ready for Shortbus: a frank and fun film about the sex lives of humans, ostensibly set in New York, but relevant to every one of us. The plot plays a supporting role in what is, in many ways, a beautifully disguised self-help documentary. Sex therapist Sofia (played by Canadian radio star, Sook-Yin Lee) has frequent, athletic (yet frustratingly unfulfilling) intercourse with her boyfriend. Her seeming ina find out more...

This honest and affecting documentary uses news reports, archival footage and talking heads to describe the politics of the gay rights movement surrounding the election and assassination of openly homosexual San Franciscan councillor Harvey Milk. The movie concentrates on the emergence of a gay political movement within the electoral system, the 1978 fight against Proposition 6, which would have banned gay and lesbian individuals from teaching in schools, and the scandalously low sentence given find out more...