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There are quite a lot of bands I had no real expectation of seeing.

2025 was a better year for reading than many a recent one.

Kate Atkinson - Cold Histories Gripping and incredibly well written.

A zombie romp set around a drag club night in Brooklyn.

A very Werner Herzog film.

The wonderful Carmen Maura is a retired widow, living alone in the bustling city of Tangiers.

Quite good fun.

Archive footage spanning decades of European train journeys.

And part 2!

Animation Part 1.

A love-letter to 70s and 80s giallo slashers.

Pros: This had some very cool visuals (I love rotoscoped animation!)

An impressive, hand-crafted animated retelling of the Little Mermaid, transplanted to a version of Shanghai in which big business and the King of the Sea are quarrelling.

A 100 year old cinema wonder, exploring the mysteries of space through cutting edge film effects.

Well this was utterly ludicrous.

Very much my sort of horror.

An animated, dialogue-free journey, following dandelion seeds on a (surprisingly cosmic) journey to where they can grow new plants.

A curiosity.

A really powerful documentary.

A CEO is kidnapped in small town America.