Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People is back in cinemas for its 24th anniversary, because nothing says 'party' like a quarter-century-old film about a man who threw them. The freewheeling, daring, and frankly intriguing movie chronicles Manchester legend Tony Wilson - Factory Records impresario, club owner, and Granada TV journalist - who was a driving entrepreneurial force behind the city's music scene and a guiding light for bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays.

Steve Coogan stars as Wilson, a casting choice that the film's original review noted was arguably the only possible one. Coogan's lead performance, described as 'Partridgean,' delivers every line as if doing a wry piece to camera - which, for a minor TV personality who was also a major player in the real world beyond the camera, is a postmodern combination that the sophisticated and intelligent Wilson himself surely savoured.

The film is being rereleased, and the original review admitted to being in some ways unconvinced, perhaps by its almost flippant, throwaway tone that is evenly established from first to last. But Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, adapted from Laurence Sterne, is sometimes described as his postmodern work, although this film - with its fourth-wall breaking, real-world cameos, and docu-realist sense of itself - is probably even more metatextual.

So if you missed it 24 years ago, or just want to see Coogan doing his best 'I'm on telly but also in a band's origin story' face, now's your chance. The film remains a daring paean to the Manchester music scene, and a reminder that sometimes the best way to tell a true story is to keep reminding everyone it's a story.