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In a world where so many mainstream movies seem hellbent on going as fast as possible and rarely take their foot off the accelerator, it's refreshing to find a little indie movie like Maybe Forever where the pace is dialled right back. We drop into the slow, languid pace almost immediately and take a journey into the love story of Sofia and Greg (played by real-life husband and wife team George and Ruby Capacete, who also deliver the direction and screenplay). This is a gentle, delicate piece like an acoustic song in a minor key, or a soap bubble catching the light. A meditation on relationships; simple, understated and quietly beautiful (and Los Angeles has never looked more welcoming). Very much worth your time.

There's a bad trip vibe from the very first frame; all queasy soundscapes and short flashes of imagery. Once we're off and running, it becomes pretty clear that we'll be spending a lot of time in the company of the childish yuppie Franky (Niki Burton, somehow channeling an awful lot of different memorable performances at once), who agrees to a threesome with his girlfriend and proceeds to watch things spiral rapidly out of control. The cinematography is often quite special, with a really rich colour scheme and pretty spectacular uses of tone and shadow. From strobes to fish-eye lenses and variable frame rates, this is a visual treat that rarely stops moving. There's some wonderfully cringey, awkward comedic dialogue ("We could do some cuckolding!") and a terrific sense of build-up, where the viewer aware that things could go seriously off the rails at any given moment. Go off the rails they swiftly do, of course, with some very messy violence and genuinely unexpected turns. This is the sort of twisted, drug-powered little gem that seemed to turn up regularly in the 90s but nowadays seem very few and far between. Very much worth spending your time with this memorable rogue's gallery of miscreants, all the way to the blood-soaked ending. Hell of a soundtrack, too.

Misadventures of Mistress Maneater isn't necessarily the movie that you'd expect from the cold open, which suggests a tone and subject matter not a million miles removed from Netflix' late lamented show 'Bonding'. Where this actually goes is much more unpredictable; a genre mash-up that takes in comedy, romance and action in a fun froth, anchored by an endlessly watchable central performance from Lorissa Julianus (who also takes writing duties). The sense of cheerful abandon on display really helps to overcome some structural hiccups and the movie manages to provide a fun and unpredictable choice for an evening's entertainment.