• All Of Us Strangers (2023) - another in a run of really great recent films that I have seen lately (this, Killers of the Flower Moon, The End We Start From, Anatomy of a Fall). This one took a while to engage me and once it did I very soon saw what the final 'revelation' was going to be but - as with the others that I have mentioned above - that really didn't matter at all. This is not about plot, twists or surprises, this is about character and loneliness and grief, and the character study was wonderfully played out by the ever-intense Andrew Scott. The final scene stuck with me all night and the track has been an ear-worm since.

• Hero (2002) - I had seen it before, at the time of release but could recall little other than the visual style, which was as strong this time as back then. My SO was in search of a bit of Wuxia along the lines of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which is a long-time favourite of hers. Hero is a much starker, more focussed film than that and stylish rather than beautiful, but does what it does extremely well and scratched the itch very well.

I will be going to see Dune, as well as Poor Things, Out of Darkness, and Zone of Interest soon, but haven't just yet.