A week under the weather had Dara running for the comfort of old Hollywood classics. In this episode, he reports his findings.

Influenced by the spooky season, he reached for a couple of Hitchcock staples of the older variety - 1940's Rebecca and 1941's Suspicion. Two very different but no less complicated love stories, one featuring espionage and seduction, the other - gulp! - murder!

He followed those with something altogether frothier - George Stevens's Woman of the Year (1942), the film that saw the first pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. On screen sparring partners and off-screen lovers, the sparks fly as they first made movie magic.

Dara reflects on the gender roles permitted to female stars of the day and what would happen to them if they didn't conform to type.

Two Netflix productions are also reviewed - Black Rabbit starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman as errant brothers, and Kathryn Bigelow's latest nailbiter, A House of Dynamite.

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