Revolving around a group of teenagers, as they get to grips with the issues of race, religion, sexuality, drugs, food disorders and what constitutes a really good party, "Skins" is a well received British drama which, despite the young cast, has a distinctly raunchy and adult theme. find out more...

Flamboyantly gay in a time when homosexuality was still outlawed, independant record producer Joe Meek, though tone deaf, drug addicted and famously paranoid, was responsible for a string of 1960s chart-toppers including 'Have I the Right', 'Just Like Eddie', 'Johnny, Remember Me' and 'Telstar'. This is a likeably quirky film that starts very well as a helter skelter comic biog but struggles to change tune as the ultimate tragedy of Meek's life finally takes hold. Odd, flawed, but well worth a find out more...

Every year, the Xhosa tribe's young men are brought to the mountains of the Eastern Cape, South Africa to participate in an ancient coming-of-age ritual. Xolani, a quiet and sensitive factory worker (played by musician Nakhane Touré), is assigned to guide Kwanda, a city boy from Johannesburg sent by his father to be toughened up, through this rite of passage into manhood. As Kwanda defiantly negotiates his queer identity within this masculine environment, he q find out more...

Aesthetically authentic though ultimately glitzy glamfest, recreating an era most of us would rather forget. Christian Bale plays an '80's journalist, sent from New York to England to investigate the mysterious disappearance ten years earlier of his own teenage idol, Brian Slade. Slade is a thinly-disguised David Bowie, while Ewan McGregor's character Curt Wild, whom Slade had recently taken up with, is presumably Iggy Pop. As homage to those early '70's days of silver suits and ridiculous hair, find out more...

Director Matt Wolf's portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned an extraordinary diversity of styles and won the love of very disparate artistic communities. His collaborators and most ardent supporters ranged from Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg to rock bands like The Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers; the pre-Studio 54 disco scene of Ni find out more...