The Banshees of Inisherin (2022 Martin McDonagh & scr)

OK, I was wrong, There was an Irish Civil War in 1923 between the Irish Free State and the IRA. However, this might still act as a mirror for what's going on between Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleason. It's also about artistic freedom and the trappings of boring normalcy. (As you get older you don't have much time to waste.)

The animals are incredible.

I think it's American opera singer Jessye Norman performing the Brahms.

It was nominated for nine Oscars and didn't win any - is this record of some kind? Won BAFTAs for Outstanding British Film of the Year (something McDonagh was suitably sarcastic about), Best screenplay and for Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan.

The Good Place - Season 3 (2018 Michael Schur)

Ur. What's going on? The four are trying to relive their lives but work out they can never get to the good place. So they try and do good for others including Tahani's sister and Eleanor's mum.

When they are rescued to Janet's neutral space, she (D'Arcy Carden) plays them all, but they should have used the actors' voices - it would have been funnier. Though in Episode 9 when she burps and it turns into Cher 'I Believe' is hilarious.

Wag the Dog (1997 Barry Levinson)

Larry Beinhart wrote the novel 'American Hero' which was written for the screen by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet, and has that recognisably fast, funny and mad dialogue from State and Main. In fact we really must get more into David Mamet. This was extremely enjoyable.

Robert de Niro is the fixer brought in to distract attention from President's sexual misconduct prior to an election. He enlists the help of film producer Dustin Hoffman, and they stage a war with Albania.

I had expected Kirsten Dunst to turn up on TV saying 'I'm not Albanian', but it went another way...

With Anne Heche, Dennis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Woody Harrelson, William H Macy, Kirsten Dunst.

Gorgeously lit by Robert Richardson. Edited by Stu Linder. Music by Mark Knopfler.