Friendship is put to the test in this story of love and loyalty in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Alison Folland plays Claude, the skateboarding teenager who slowly comes out as gay in a homophobic urban environment. Her feelings are confused by her best friend Ellen who sinks deeper into drug abuse and self destruction. When there's a murder in the neighbourhood, Claude has to choose between loyalty for Ellen or her own instincts. A coming-of-age film debut by Alex Sichel. 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...

Valerie Solanas was a nutter cum radical feminist who tried to hang around with the Warhol crowd, became the sole member of SCUM, the Society for Cutting Up Men, and became famous for more than 15 minutes for firing the bullets from which Andy Warhol never recovered. Right on sister, that's art. This is a fab little pic from the Killer Films troupe. Laced with psychedelia, trimmed with gritty realism, first person narratives and cameos, this is a must watch if only for Taylor's brilliant protray find out more...

Howie is a 15-year-old kid teetering on the edge of delinquency, his mother has recently died and his father, a dodgy builder, is hard pushed to keep a grip on his own life, let alone his son's. Lost and alone Howie hangs out more and more with his mates, skipping school and committing small time theft, it is while in the middle of one of these robberies that the boys meet Big John, a mysterious and ominous character. When the few emotional bonds that Howie has left desert him only Big John is l find out more...

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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...

Bree is a remarkable woman, and only part of this is her birth identity as a male and her near-ending struggle to become a physical woman. As if Bree's life was not complicated enough she discovers she has a troubled teenage son and is reluctantly persuaded to travel to New York and bail him out of jail. So begins an odyssey for the unlikely duo as they travel back across country to Los Angeles, each keeping their secrets closely guarded but each also drawn increasingly towards the other. Witty, find out more...