Following the success of The River, Springsteen retreats to rural New Jersey. Pre-occupied by turbulent memories and drawing on American history, he defies record company expectations by crafting his seminal country-folk album Nebraska. Scott Cooper and star Allen White delicately build the rich inner-world of Springsteen, while the excellent supporting cast populate the environment around him at a moment when his journey to fame was unstoppable.

When Jay Kelly is honoured with a lifetime achievement award, he sets off on a trip across Europe with his ‘team’, including his beloved, but all-too-often undervalued, manager Ron. However, Jay soon realises you can only outrun your demons for so long. And he has more than his fair share of them. Baumbach delivers a pitch-perfect exploration of fame, fatherhood and the price of art.

Jesse Plemons is outstanding as a conspiracy-obsessed paranoiac who, with the help of his brother, kidnaps a powerful CEO, believing she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. An inspired take on Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 South Korean satire Save the Green Planet!, Lanthimos’ madcap and uncompromising vision doesn’t disappoint, as events unfold with surprising, sometimes shocking, results.