For next time you’re locked up. Watched or recommended during 2020/21.

To forget

Reflecting things we missed.

Detectorists

Gentle, tender and hilarious.

Lover’s Rock

Parties!

Treme

A masterpiece that bridges the gap between celebration and contemplation. Treme honours the culture of New Orleans while reflecting on the impacts of another natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina.

To remember

Consume at your own risk.

Chernobyl

A grim reminder of institutional failure, technological hubris, and mankind’s ability to devastate the environment.

The Lighthouse

“How long have we been on this rock?”

My last cinema experience as a free man in 2020 could not have been more fitting!

“Nothing good happens when two men are trapped in a giant phallus” - Robert Eggers

The Terror

Makes being stuck in a flat look relatively pleasant.

Splendid Isolation

We don’t need to speculate about what Warren Zevon’s views on lockdown would have been: