Oil City Confidential (2009)

Authentic feel to this good-looking biopic of the ill-fated band. Full Review

What emerges is a film to rank alongside Temple's own Joe Strummer elegy 'The Future is Unwritten' as the very best in British rock documentary. Riveting, even if you don't like the music. Full Review

Julien Temple's rockumentary Oil City Confidential looks like a series of Martin Parr photographs of the British by the seaside, and then segues into thrashing guitars on the Seventies New York stage. Full Review

I don't think [Julien Temple's] ever made a film as good, and purely insightful as this one. Full Review

The splicing of old home videos, archive footage and new interviews is handled with real finesse, and in the band's mad-eyed, quixotic guitarist Wilco Johnson, the film has a tirelessly charismatic ri... Full Review

A rugged piece of pulp entertainment charting the unlikely rise of UK blues outfit Dr Feelgood.

A clearly affectionate homage to the Canvey Island foursome whose incendiary R&B paved the way for punk. Full Review

It's Wilko's peremptory, offbeat monologues that provide Oil City Confidential with its through-line and several of its funniest moments, not least when he describes the clouds and flames of the Shell... Full Review

Temple tries his best to make the story lively and interesting (even embarking on a brief history of the Thames estuary), but Dr Feelgood remains an R&B band of limited appeal, and Oil City Confidenti... Full Review

Julian Temple's messy, whimsical look at the rise and fall of the British pub rock band Dr Feelgood packs a bigger punch than expected. Full Review