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Anora - "Ani" - is a stripper. One night, because she speaks Russian, she lands a big-spending young Russian man as a customer. Things develop and he starts to treat her as his girlfriend. Things seem to be going well but when they get married the problems start.

The 2025 Oscar winner for Best Picture, Best Director (Sean Baker), Best Original Screenplay (Sean Baker), Best Leading Actress (Mikey Madison) and Best Editing (Sean Baker, again). Considering how the Academy tends to prefer serious, agenda-driven movies, this movie is a breath of fresh air. It's more a comedy than a drama and is hilariously funny at times.

I wasn't expecting the comedic aspect as, on the surface, this looks like a Pretty Woman-type romantic drama (just less glamourous). The comedy isn't apparent from the start either, gradually building from close to nothing at the start to some wonderfully absurdist, laugh-out-loud scenes in the middle section.

It does try to be a drama at the end but this is to its detriment as this causes the movie to fizzle out rather than go out with a bang. Still, it's funny and fast-moving for the most part, making for a highly entertaining ride.

In this episode we meet Joel Dahmen, World #70, a journeyman professional golfer. His life and career are far from the glamour of the top players. He has to play qualifying tournaments to play in majors. We see his route to the 2022 US Open and how he fared at that tournament.

Until now we've only seen the well-known faces of golf: Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka, Ian Poulter. Even the players in the background tend to be big names: e.g. Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, John Rahm. This is moderately interesting but hardly riveting as their lives are hardly relatable.

Now, at last, we have an engaging story. A player who has to battle to qualify for majors, who has to battle to make cuts in PGA tournaments. In stark contrast to the bravado, fame and lavish lifestyles of the players shown previously we have a player who lives modestly, is not famous thus much more down-to-earth and who lacks self-confidence (to his detriment, it seems).

It shows the side of professional golf we never see - the player good enough to be professional but not good enough (or confident enough) to be a world-beater but who keeps at it and occasionally has his moment in the sun. It also helps that he is a very likeable guy.

Very interesting and engaging.

A helper-robot, ROZZUM unit 7134 - "Roz", finds itself marooned on a desert island. The island is teeming with wildlife and Roz is soon able to communicate with the animals. Roz soon makes friends with a fox and, in a life-changing event, adopts an orphaned gosling.

A sweet, fun animated film. A good plot with great themes about friendship and putting aside differences to work together. There's also an interesting culture clash between the sophistication of the robot and the more basic, innocent behaviour of the animals, highlighting the superficiality of modern culture.

Some great comedic moments too. Paddler the beaver (voiced by Matt Berry) gets the best lines.

Will mostly appeal to kids but there's a lot for adults to enjoy too.