As a child John Lennon was raised in 50s suburban Liverpool by his prudish aunt, but his somewhat wilder biological mother floats back into his life in his late teens and the film operates as a domestic drama with the two battling for his soul. The late great Beatle is not around to blow the whistle on this somewhat straight-laced Freudian bio-bit-pic. find out more...

A mesmerising dramatisation of one of the kings, Ray Charles. Unsurprisingly the soundtrack is pure bliss, but it is Jamie Foxx in the title role that pulls everything together, an hypnotic performance of a music legend, through all his highs and lows, and one of those increasingly rare examples of a leading actor Oscar that actually makes sense. find out more...

A surprisingly gritty slice of Rock and Roll nostalgia. David Essex is Jim Maclaine, a working-class West Country lad who, having been abandoned by his father at an early age, drops out of the exams that would lead to university and heads of to find his fortune as a rock star in a shabby seaside town. That'll Be the Day is made in the same downbeat, naturalistic way as the kitchen sink films of a decade before, but with a very upbeat rock'n'roll soundtrack. Some strange cameos (what was Ringo St find out more...

Buddy Holly laid the foundations for a generation of popular music with his groundbreaking combination of country music and rhythm and blues. This film tells his story from it's explosive beginning to its tragic end with Gary Busey giving an electrifying Oscar nominated performance as the young genius from Lubbock Texas, who changed the tune of rock 'n' roll history.

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The legend that is Dewey Cox, a rock and roll god whose name is uttered in the same breath as Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash, a man who embraced hedonism more than most of his peers, but at heart was simple and kind. Idolised for his music and nearly destroyed by the many temptations such adulation brought, this is the myth, a subtle, beautifully performed, lushly visualised, cleverly scripted lampoon of every poe-faced, rose-tinted Oscar hungry biopic that's graced our screens over the last couple find out more...