Winner of an Oscar for "Best Documentary", this film (beautifully shot in black and white) recaptures the life and music of the late, great jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. The founder of the Californian school of "Cool Jazz" this film is in itself remarkably cool and stylish. find out more...

The frightening story of a naive young American caught smuggling hashish out of Turkey and sentenced to years inside a particularly vicious prison regime. The despair and desolation are brought home brutally. John Hurt is magnificent as the eccentric British prison veteran. 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...

With a freshly failed marriage behind him, rookie reporter Bob Wilton decides to lose himself in the romance of war by travelling to Iraq to report from the front line. Once there however Bob swiftly discovers that the surreal mixture of tedium and terror isn't really what he'd hoped for, a discomfort compounded by hooking up with a clearly deranged member of the special forces who has been trained in mind control techniques. Based on the �non-fiction' book by Jon Ronson, 'Men Who Stare At Goa find out more...