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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A documentary about a bunch of mainly New York based loosely connected autodidactic artists who, influenced by the popular street cultures of the day, skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion, punk and hip-hop, began to work in the fields of fashion, music, literature, film and athletics(!). find out more...

Before King of the Hill, Futurama or Family Guy came onto the scene, Beavis and Butt-Head were THE place to go for your dose of counter-culture animation. This collection represents a 'best of'' picked by the creator, Mike Judge. Taking anti-intellectualism to new heights, Beavis and Butt-Head remain essential viewing for those wishing to gain a firmer understanding of Western civilisation in the early 1990s.
Disc Two: The pair become poster boys for their generation, get sent back to ki find out more...

BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY explores the extraordinary secret life of artist Chris Sievey, best known as his alter ego Frank Sidebottom, the maverick Northern comedian in a fake head. Frank Sidebottom, his greatest creation, became a star – a manic, insane, mercurial star burning brightly from within a papier mâché head – a star who obscures find out more...

Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá, a former drug-dealer, turns social revolutionary in one of Rio de Janeiro's most feared slums. Through music, the rhythms of the street and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent life offered by the drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. But even as liberation looms trage find out more...

In 1970, a young farmer named Michael Eavis opened his 150-acre farm to 1,500 people who paid one pound each to watch a handful of pop and folk stars perform all weekend long, and the Glastonbury Festival was born. Julien Temple has spent the past few years collecting footage from every single Glastonbury Festival, ranging from outtakes from the film Nicolas Roeg made about the 1971 event to amateur home videos collected from the attendees themselves. Interweaving images of impromptu art happeni find out more...

Neil McCormick always knew he’d be famous. A teenage Irish songwriter and budding genius, nothing less than a life of rock n’ roll stardom will do. But...and its a big one, nobody can choose a better moment to take the wrong path at an inadvisable time than Neil...fuelled too often by his pride. When the other school band becomes ‘U2’ Neil is consumed with jealously, a feeling that is in danger of ruining not just him but also his much loved brother and fellow band mem find out more...

Self-confessed in-it-for-life metaller Sam Dunn is narrator and guide in this erudite documentary about that most misunderstood and derided of musical genres, heavy metal. Dunn is an anthropologist and, as such, intends to challenge outsiders' perceptions about the clichés of satanism, spots and sexual confusion with an investigation of the realities inside the metal scene and its many sub-genres. Along the way he speaks to metallers of note Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maid find out more...

Thirty years of rock and roll history by director Peter Bogdanovich contains hours of never before seen footage and interviews with both Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as well George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Jeff Lynne, Rick Rubin, Johnny Depp and Jackson Browne find out more...

A wonderful portrait of Ian Dury - he the polio crippled lyricist and front man for punk icons The Blockheads and a self-pitying, class conscious, angry, supremely talented loud mouth - struggling to relate to his pre-teen son and familial duties.
'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' is a top notch drama about a real life person, warts, foul language and all, and you neither need to love his music, punk generally nor, indeed, any form of music to appreciate this gem of a film. find out more...