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Fat Wreck Chords... The influential music label proud to say they've spent the past 25 years "ruining punk rock". A Fat Wreck tells the story of founders Fat Mike (of the legendary punk band NOFX) and his ex-wife Erin Kelly-Burkett, spanning the birth, growth, struggles, and survival of the Fat Wreck Chords label.  Half inspirational story of chosen family and community, half debauchery and occasionally involuntary drug use...  A Fat Wreck blazes exciting new ground in the cinematic genre of puppet-driven punk rock music documentary filmmaking. If you only see one film featuring a dominatrix spanking a puppet in your lifetime... Make it A Fat Wreck! To order "A Fat Wreck," visit: http://www.afatwreck.com/

The band X Japan in the 1980s, as seen in the documentary "We Are X." Photo: Drafthouse Films As a kid, Yoshiki always wondered if he were from somewhere else � like Mars. A misfit child scarred by his father�s suicide, Yoshiki, trained in classical music, grew up to become a David Bowie -like man who fell to Earth. He revolutionized heavy metal music in Japan and, still going at 50, is trying to break into the American consciousness. Stephen Kijak �s documentary �We Are X� is a broad but surprisingly personal portrait of Yoshiki and his band, X Japan , which formed in 1982, broke up in 1997 and re-formed in 2007. The band began a push into the U.S. market about five years ago, and interviews include American friends and fans such as Kiss front man Gene Simmons and Marilyn Manson .  The film is a rush, all right, but it�s also a soulful look at Yoshiki, who although rarely without his dark glasses, still seems very revealing. He re...

POPPY Chancellor is among loved ones hailing the musician in a documentary filmed two weeks after he was diagnosed with the cancer that claimed his life.  IRVINE Welsh and Billy Bragg hail him as a hero. Shane MacGowan was one of his closest friends. His romances with singer Neneh Cherry and actress Anna Chancellor made gossip columns, as did his friendships with aristocracy. But few outside of the post-punk music scene know much about poet Jock Scot. Yet his family and friends says his influence on music, literature and the arts was extraordinary. For Poppy Chancellor, his daughter with Four Weddings and A Funeral star Anna, he was just dad � albeit a rather unusual one. Poppy spoke out as a documentary about her father�s bohemian life � from meeting Ian Dury and The Blockheads and following them to London to becoming a performance poet and opening gigs for the likes of Joe Strummer, The Pogues and The Libertines � is being finished. Keith Allen, Jock Scot, Neneh Cherry a...