Factory Records, the Hacienda club, Tony Wilson, Happy Mondays, etc, etc. '24 Hour Party People' is an affectionate and humorous trip through Manchester's monster music scene in the 80s and 90s. The soundtrack as you'd expect is blinding and Steve Coogan's portrayal of Wilson is spooky. A film that stands on it's own as an excellent near tragi-comedy, but within its historical context... it's bloody mad!

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An extended version of Cameron Crowe's "Love letter to rock n' roll" containing over 35 mins of quality extra footage, including a previously cut cameo from Tenacious D's Kyle Gass. Based on Crowe's own adventures as a teenage music journalist, ‘Almost Famous' tells the story of a 15-year-old boy who is complacently hired by Rolling Stone magazine to write an article on the fictional band Stillwater. As the band hits the road so does Rolling Stone's youngest reporter. find out more...

Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

Meet New Zealanders Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie - aka "Flight of the Conchords". They're on tour in America, well New York, and determined to conquer the States with their identity crisis folk songs, even if it's only one fan at a time. Inspired left-field comedy raised to the height of genius by a number of blemishless musical parodies (I'm still haunted by their Beastie Boys number) shoe horned into the stories like a surrealist's take on 'West Side Story'. Marvellous I tell you, bloody find out more...

Meet New Zealanders Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie - aka "Flight of the Conchords". They're on tour in America, well New York, and determined to conquer the States with their identity crisis folk songs, even if it's only one fan at a time. Inspired left-field comedy raised to the height of genius by a number of blemishless musical parodies (I'm still haunted by their Beastie Boys number) shoe horned into the stories like a surrealist's take on 'West Side Story'. Marvellous I tell you, bloody find out more...

Wow. Wow. Wow. John Cameron Mitchell directs and stars as Hedwig, transsexual punk rock goddess in this film adaptation of the highly-acclaimed rock opera. Hedwig tours America with his band, The Angry Inch, a reference to his botched sex change operation, in the wake of young rock icon, Tommy Gnosis. Tommy was a Jesus freak with a fish on his truck when Hedwig met him but soon they became a successful rock duo outgrossing monster trucks in Kansas City. But when it all becomes too much for To find out more...

Ulysses, Delmar and Pete have just escaped a chain gang and are high tailing it across the country to recover a fortune in hidden treasure. There is only one flaw in this otherwise faultless plan......they're clueless. 'O Brother Where Art Thou' is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey (when I say loose I mean like the jumper that you don't know whether to wear, or peg out as a tent) and is a rip-roaring comedy adventure, with all the quirky charm that you expect from the Coen brothers. The sound tra find out more...

Dewey Finn is a delusional loser, obsessed by rock and roll, on the wrong side of thirty, and still kipping on his friend's floor, much to the disgust of said mate's girlfriend. When Dewey blags himself a position as substitute teacher at a prestigious private school, his expectations of the kids are considerably less than their expectations of him, but when Dewey hears the privileged little darlings in their music lesson life takes on coherent meaning. These gifted young things are Dewey's pass find out more...

Jack Black, the record store assistant who gave John Cusack serious competition for screen charisma in High Fidelity, and Kyle Gass marry their comic talents to equally impressive musical skills in this sprawling and consistently entertaining DVD. Tenacious D are a delusional duo who firmly believe they are The Greatest Rock Band In The World, when in truth they're not even the best band on the open mic circuit. Their conviction, though, leads to a set of exemplary acoustic songs in a metal styl find out more...

Eric Idle's brilliant spoof documentary on the rise and rise of the fab four, featuring musical pastiche of genius. See the lovable mop-tops as you've never seen them before, including the lesser known "black beatle". Sing along with Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty to some classic tunes including "Please Rut Me" and "Let it Rut". Ace. find out more...