As I prepare for what most probably will be my Third Big Life Shake-up, The Universe is breaking its silence to discreetly show support for a decision that not everybody understands. Of course, it does this via the art of Cinema.

Once again I used an offer to temporarily subscribe to MUBI, ‘a place to discover ambitious films by visionary filmmakers’, so for a few weeks you will find in my round-ups a few films of a different kind than my usual diet.

The trailer for The Black Phone 2 (I can never remember whether this title has the article or not) got me excited enough to trigger a sort of Scott Derrickson horror rewatch, so that’s how my week started. Unfortunately, it’s not how it ended.

This week included a couple of bank holiday days, so this gave me the opportunity for two cinema outings. With the complicity of my brain, which imposed total rest through a series of terrible migraines, I also collected many hours on the sofa-plex.

After the back-to-back cinema screenings last week, I was left with nothing recent to watch in a theatre this week, and no relatively recent film I was interested in renting, so… I had to settle for what I found.

My appreciation for Brian De Palma has significantly reduced in the last few years, but I still believe his first Mission Impossible is the best film in the series. Sorry if that upset you.