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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Mark Wahlberg stars as a formidably equipped youngster turned into porn-film superstar Dirk Diggler by veteran director Jack Horner. find out more...

Ennis and Jack are two young men working as herders on a vast sheep ranch in the heart of Wyoming. It is the 1960s but the sexual revolution is in no rush to reach this wilderness and when their relationship spills over into consummated love the two boys are ill equipped to handle what they feel. Over the next twenty years Ennis and Jack settle into conventional lives, dictated by their strict social environment, both get married and both have children but neither can escape the true love they s find out more...

A lavish Scorcese epic set in 70s Vegas. De Niro is typically charismatic as Ace, whose gambling empire brings him wealth, power and, ultimately, ruin. Pesci is satisfyingly psychotic regurgitating his "Goodfellas" gangster, but it's Stone who will break your heart as tortured ex-hooker Ginger. Superb. find out more...

France's greatest screen actor is a no-good petty thief who meets a middle class yuppie at a disco. He excites her so much that she abandons her steady relationship with her boss and moves in with him. A portrait of France in the 70s, blue collar, big-bellied and chauvinist; well acted with the seedier side of Paris brilliantly evoked. find out more...

A fascinating biopic of Francis Bacon, concentrating on his relationship with George Dyer, a burglar whom he caught in his house and promptly seduced, whose amorality and innocence he found attractive and whom he introduced to his Soho pals. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking, pill popping and nightmares strain the relationship in this clash between the arty, boozy Soho set and the East End criminal fraternity, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints and talks wit find out more...

Tom, a middle class Princeton student and ardent socialist, despises the glamorous social whirl enjoyed by some of his upper class Manhattan peers. But when he's befriended by the cynic Nick, the philosophical Charlie, party girl Sally and Austenite Audrey, who meet almost every night to talk about social mobility, play bridge and philosophise, he reluctantly becomes intrigued by and involved with their decadent lives. And he finds a soul mate in Audrey, who without his knowledge falls in love w find out more...

Christy Brown was an Irish cerebal palsy victim who overcame his severe handicap to become a talented painter and author with just the use of his left foot. Daniel Day Lewis is totally and utterly convincing as Brown - using method acting he became Brown and his thoroughness makes the film a great one. find out more...

A highly stylised British road movie as a comment on the 70s. DJ Beams drives from London to Bristol (play spot the location), in a battered old Rover, to unravel his brother's mysterious death, but it's the incidental characters that he meets on the way that provide the body of the film. Beautifully shot in monochrome and with a fantastic punky soundtrack including Bowie, Kraftwerk and Wreckless Eric. find out more...

Set to the story of Ray Grange, who bins his suit to become a roadie for The Clash, and using as a backdrop the Brixton race riots and the neo-Nazi backlash. Lots of political demonstrations and Clash gigs - and Rude Boy is an excellent opportunity to see them live….and loud. find out more...