Friendship is put to the test in this story of love and loyalty in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Alison Folland plays Claude, the skateboarding teenager who slowly comes out as gay in a homophobic urban environment. Her feelings are confused by her best friend Ellen who sinks deeper into drug abuse and self destruction. When there's a murder in the neighbourhood, Claude has to choose between loyalty for Ellen or her own instincts. A coming-of-age film debut by Alex Sichel. find out more...

An ambitious adaptation of Tom Robbins' surreal, cult novel. Sissy (Thurman) is born with unfeasibly large thumbs, but uses the giant appendages to become the world's greatest hitch-hiker, eventually finding sanctuary with the militant cowgirls of the Rubber Rose Ranch. Odd but interesting. find out more...

Another in a string of interconnected characters/plot flicks that have been coming from the Art House genre, this one is actually quite good. To try and explain the plot would be futile and too revelatory but I will say that our cast of characters includes a committed gay boyfriend played wonderfully by Steve Coogan(!), a singer-seductress scene stealer part from Maggie Gyllenhaal and a very sweet, cash-for-brains father played by Tom Arnold. As well as Lisa Kudrow who serves a hub of sorts for find out more...

Valerie Solanas was a nutter cum radical feminist who tried to hang around with the Warhol crowd, became the sole member of SCUM, the Society for Cutting Up Men, and became famous for more than 15 minutes for firing the bullets from which Andy Warhol never recovered. Right on sister, that's art. This is a fab little pic from the Killer Films troupe. Laced with psychedelia, trimmed with gritty realism, first person narratives and cameos, this is a must watch if only for Taylor's brilliant protray 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...

Yet more hippy adventures in the first half of the second series, adapted from the books by Armistead Maupin. Starring Olympia Dukakis as the ideal landlady who cares more about the drug supply of her tenants than the rent! The search for Mr. Right continues for Mary Anne and poor old Mouse has to stand aside when she appears to have found him! Set this time in 1973, San Francisco looks like the place to be in this follow up to Tales of the City. find out more...

Episodes 3-4 conclude the tales from San Francisco's radical residents. Set in 1977, we've all watched the characters go through many changes in this addictive adaptation. Can they find the happiness they seek and face up to their secrets? Mystery surrounds Mary Anne's boyfriend as they seek to uncover the memories he has lost. Frannie finds herself invited to a secret estate and Beauchamp Day is up to no good. find out more...

Set in the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decide to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support. But the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the Union and 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...

Kim is a bright, frustrated and cynical fifteen year old. On the brink of hormonal overload she's the oldest child in a dysfunctional middle class family and her only focus and her only pleasure is Maria Sweet aka Sugar. Assured, confident and already playing on her physical charms, she is the lust of Kim's life and invokes desire she can barely control. Sugar Rush, adapted from Julie Burchill's novel, is a funny, warm and perceptive observation of the booby-trapped no man's land between childho find out more...