Our movie guru Alex has taken a few trips to the cinema this week and gives us his rundown on the latest releases.

In between deleting Black Friday E-mails and trying to find a new place to live, I've managed a couple of trips to the cinema this week. I sometimes feel guilty going when I've got a busy schedule, but along with a walk in the park and a bubble bath, I find a visit to the movies highly therapeutic. 

Barbarian takes the cinemagoer on a rollercoaster ride from start to finish. It's a bit like wandering through a creepy hall of mirrors, set in a never-ending basement.

A young woman travels to Detroit for a job interview, and books into an Air B&B on a seemingly abandoned street. When she arrives late at night in the pouring rain, it turns out a random bloke is already staying there (played by Bill Skarsgard).

As they both have the correct key code and have used different websites, they put it down to an admin error, and agree sleeping arrangements. However, things start to go bump in the night.

Inevitably, Tess (Georgina Campbell) feels compelled to investigate the creepy basement, rather than do what I'd do in this situation and floor it in fifth gear until my car reached the next State.

There's a great scene where Tess arrives home from her interview and an unknown local is running towards her down the ramshackle street, yelling a warning about the house and begging her not to go back inside.

Really, this is best enjoyed if you know little more in advance about it, so I'll swerve any more spoilers. It's wildly unpredictable and blends humour with horror, sprinkled with a little bit of #metoo for good measure.

Just make sure you catch it when it hits Disney+ around Christmas. I doubt I'll be booking accommodation in Detroit for a little while. I'll stick to Droylsden and Dukinfield.

Meanwhile, The Menu sees Ralph Fiennes in icy form as Chef Slowik, who's preparing a very special themed tasting menu for a group of diners at his island restaurant. They arrive by boat, but it quickly emerges they may not get out alive. The one fly in the ointment is Margot (Anya-Taylor Joy), who has replaced Tyler's (Nicholas Hoult) original date, and is more interested in working out the motives of Chef and his team than fawning over his food.

It's a great send-up of food critics, snobbery and narcissism, and serves up its vengeance in bite-sized portions, plus dollops of dark humour and gore. Not one that will linger long in the memory, but immensely enjoyable whilst being consumed. You might fancy a hamburger with fries after watching it too. The 'breadless bread plate' was also a highlight.

This week, I have plans to finally catch Bill Nighy's latest Living, which has another week to run at Cineworld, plus Disney's Strange World, Confess Fletch and Armageddon Time. I'm also looking forward to She Said, focusing on the scandal that engulfed Hollywood after the arrest of Harvey Weinstein, and Violent Night ('time for some season's beatings' is already one of my favourite film quotes of the year).

You can listen to Alex every weekday from 7am to 11am and on the 'Super Scoreboard' show on Saturdays from 3pm to 7pm, on Tameside Radio 103.6FM. 

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