Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) made her living in the 1970's and 80's profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.

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On the heels of his success with the groundbreaking drama Boyhood, director Richard Linklater shifts gears to sports for this comedy about a successful college baseball team that plays hard both on and off the diamond.

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In 1970, a young farmer named Michael Eavis opened his 150-acre farm to 1,500 people who paid one pound each to watch a handful of pop and folk stars perform all weekend long, and the Glastonbury Festival was born. Julien Temple has spent the past few years collecting footage from every single Glastonbury Festival, ranging from outtakes from the film Nicolas Roeg made about the 1971 event to amateur home videos collected from the attendees themselves. Interweaving images of impromptu art happeni find out more...

Filmed in 1986 at a Maryland concert arena parking lot before a heavy metal show, this is an unvarnished, fascinating and Spinal Tap..esque anthropological study of American metal heads in their mid-'80s glory. A shed load of extras make up for the feature's 25 minute running time (though the bit with one now middle aged participant's exhaustive explanation of his record collection comes close to a cure for insomnia). find out more...

3 middle-aged men, losers to a tee, and a nerdish nephew, make a nostalgia trip to a now rundown ski-resort where they spent happier and more optimistic youthful moments. After an accident involving a Russian energy drink and a jacuzzi they find themselves transported back to the 1980s in this likeable time-travel comedy. Can they alter things to ensure that their lives don`t turn out so badly? And can they do this without aborting the as yet unborn nephew?
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Renowned photographer Richard Billingham makes his feature-film debut with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his own memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s, and then his father and mother in the late 90s. Billingham revisits the figures of his earlier photographs his alcoholic father Ray; his mother Liz; and his younger brother Jason with a series of family vignettes where life, lived on the margins of society and societal taboos, can spiral out of find out more...

A wonderful portrait of Ian Dury - he the polio crippled lyricist and front man for punk icons The Blockheads and a self-pitying, class conscious, angry, supremely talented loud mouth - struggling to relate to his pre-teen son and familial duties.
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Based on the gripping film of the same name which starred Gary Oldman, 'The Firm' is a brutal coming of age story set around the casual violence and pack mentality of English football hooliganism at its 1980s peak. find out more...

Any movie adapted from the writing of Brett Easton Ellis and involving his vacuous, drug fueled, hedonistic, sexually loose, amoral characters is bound to court controversy and misunderstanding. Unfortunately, poor editing of plot-lines and the replacement of one director by another have reduced these vignettes, of beautiful party-going pill-popping '70s Angelenos, to the empty shell that their lives represent. However, given the excellent soundtrack and '80s feel 'The Informers' does have some find out more...