Stoned

Stoned (2005) is a British drama about the life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones — watch it online on iFILM. Directed by Stephen Woolley. By 1962, Jones had recruited the players, chosen the name, and set the musical direction. By 27, the band had let him go. Weeks later, he was pulled from the pool at Cotchford Farm.

Leo Gregory plays Jones as someone who could set a room on fire with energy and burn it down just as fast. Paddy Considine takes on Frank Thorogood, the builder working on the estate and the last person confirmed to have been with Jones alive. Ben Whishaw turns up in an early role. The film plants itself in those final months at Cotchford — the drifters in the house, the wrecked routine, the slow dissolution of a man who had already done his most important work. The accident verdict sits uneasily throughout. Watch Stoned online on iFILM.