The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Brian Gibson

Cast

Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Todd Haynes

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Toni Collette

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls l...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Cecilia Peck, Barbara Kopple

Cast

Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire

In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Liam Lynch

Cast

Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR Reed

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Julio Medem

Cast

Ione Hernández, Maider Oleaga, Xabier Arzalluz