When Gram Parsons died in a hale of self inflicted narcotics in 1973 his best buddy and road manager, Phil, took it upon himself to fulfil an old promise, cremation in the desert of Joshua Tree. Not everybody however, in fact nobody, share Phil's beliefs, and with only a flower power hearse and an increasingly disgruntled hippy for company he races across the desert with the law, gram's family and gram's lovers in hot pursuit. Based (loosely) on true events, Gram Parsons is both a funny and tou find out more...

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...

A generic, but nevertheless, reasonably good warts and all biopic of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, aka The Notorious B.I.G., from a drug dealing chilhood in a Brooklyn ghetto, through arrest, prison, his relationship problems, basic criminality and on to his success as a rap artist before his 1997 murder. 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...

Oliver Stone's authentic homage to 60s rock group The Doors doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, Jim Morrison, worshipped and adored by fans yet seemingly hell-bent on self-destruction. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27 and features a tour-de-force performance by the rock god dead ringer Val Kilmer. Loads of great music. find out more...

Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she had a tumultuous affair.
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