With cinemas closed, we choose films for those who want to escape reality that are available to view this week.

l Blade Runner 2049 (15, 163 mins) – Sony Movie, Friday January 15 at 9pm, Monday January 18 at 11.10pm and Thursday January 21 at 9pm

Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s ground-breaking 1982 fantasy honours the past and respectfully expands the nihilistic universe imagined by Philip K Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

l Drive (18, 97 mins) – screening on Sony Movies on Friday January 15 at 12.15am and streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Adapted from the novel by James Sallis, Drive hits the accelerator in opening scenes and barely touches the brakes as the plot skids with sickening inevitability towards its bloody resolution.

Ryan Gosling is mesmerising as the speed-freak loner.

l His Girl Friday (U, 92 mins) – Screening on Film4 on Wednesday January 20 at 4.50pm and streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Director Howard Hawks is at the height of his powers in this 1940 screwball comedy, which pairs the sublime Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell as former husband and wife, who rediscover their love on the job as editor and ace reporter covering the impending execution of a man accused of killing a cop.