Lynne Ramsay's 'Die My Love' is an erratic percolating pandemonium. The psychological onslaught left me all over the place in the end but I'm veering towards the positive. It took me a while to get over the sheen of two major Hollywood occupying the main roles, but they both end up doing good work.

One of the best…Embrace The Serpent (2015)

I very much vibed with 'Bring Her Up' a sublimely earthy, hallucinatory type of horror that seeks to arouse all the senses, conjuring a heady immersive experience that lingers. And with a brilliantly unhinged Sally Hawkins, who is so unpredictable ramping up the anxiety!

Wow these wonderful gay moments in Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Ofc plenty of stuff to poke at but I did, surprisingly, enjoy 28 Years Later. I was on board with its more dystopian take with just enough exposition but still had a bit of the frenzied energy akin to Boyle's films.

Dogme 95’s Festen at the Royal Opera House is superb. The theme and format works perfectly for opera. Accompanied by a befitting austere score. And to mention the incredibly stylish set filled with Danish-like furniture.

Such a divinely controlled performance by Sandy Dennis in Altman's A Cold Day In The Park (1969). Even in her most unhinged and menacing there is a Pollyanna innocence that permeates through. Hilarious that a time not so long ago, women labelled as spinsters at the tender age of 32.

BBC TV film ‘The Stone Tape’ (1972) has Inside No.9 written all over it.

I finally got round to Rhomer's period drama 'The Lady And The Duke'. Lacking in the humour of his previous clumsy, unselfaware characters and touching on the more right-leaning side of French history. But enjoyed the actors' pretend play in these kooky one dimensional Venetian painting setting.

New year light reading!

Finally got round to Red Rooms and loved it. Found myself enamoured by its elusive lead played by Juliette Gariépy who’s mysteriously striking looks and constrained performance, keeps you alert throughout without much of a resolution in the end.