The second and final of Winston's journeys into the rapidly-receding past to revisit his favourite DVD and blu-ray releases from last year. Check Sunlive for last week's Oscar winners, sci-fi, action and documentaries. Now the rest...

COMEDY

Still my favourite comedy of 2013 is Ben Wheatley's The Sightseers, a pitch black English road movie about a working-class couple's caravan holiday, taking in some of Britain's more eclectic sights (Keswick Pencil Museum anyone?) with a spot of well-intentioned murder on the side.

The World's End was everything you could hope as the conclusion of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's 'Cornetto” trilogy. Pub crawls, lost youth, and vanishing rural Britain collide with an alien invasion. Brilliant.

And, partly because nobody else even noticed it, I was particularly fond of Butter, a satirical American laugh-fest in the same vein as Thank You For Smoking, centred around butter carving, with a barnstorming central turn from Jennifer Garner.

HORROR

It wasn't much of a year for horror was it? More zombies, a bunch of low-rent possession films and everybody falling for The Conjuring. Which was OK. As was Sinister. But my favourites skewed towards the weirder, with director Brandon Cronenberg (son of David) proving a chip of the old block with futuristic body horror Antiviral.

Even better was the stylishly designed Excision, a film about a schoolgirl with deluded dreams of being a surgeon. An American parable, perhaps, about the dangers of attempting to live your dreams. Also putting up a good fight in the body horror corner was American Mary from Canada's Soska sisters.

And I revised my opinion of zombie epic World War Z. Despite seriously drifting in the last 40 minutes the earlier stuff is so striking that, on second viewing, I really rate it.

FOREIGN

There were, of course, a bunch of foreign films that I loved, but best for me were three oddly connected films. Firstly, the incredible paraplegic love story Rust And Bone in which Marion Cotillard plays a whale trainer who learns to live and love again after Bad Things happen.

And there was Michael Haneke's Amour, an almost unbearably sad and honest story about octogenarians George and Anne confronting life after Anne is left partially paralysed by a stroke. It won every award going and will break your heart. Then, in what seems like a hat-trick of some sort, there was The Intouchables, a French film about the unlikely friendship between a aristocratic quadriplegic man and his working class carer. It's fantastic, and will make you happy to be alive.

Elsewhere Gael Garcia Bernal was great in No as the ad man who ran the campaign to oust dictator Augusto Pinochet, and Mads Mikkkelsen was terrific as the schoolteacher wrongly-accused of sexual assault in The Hunt, which was as good as any film this year.

ODDITIES

These aren't easily categorised but were all great achievements and have stuck with me. Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is an enigmatic film with few sympathetic characters. Through Joaquin Phoenix's damaged 'hero” the film explores America's post-WW2 trauma. Sort of...

Killing Them Softly was a crime flick I guess but mostly was various grades of crims talking and each time I see it it gets better: Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta in a bleak and oblique indictment of corporate America.

The Wachowski's Cloud Atlas was as complex as Before Midnight was simple. But both were enthralling and rather wonderful. Don't let the former's elaborate time-shifting narrative throw you, or the 'two people talking” set-up of the latter put you off.

And Ben (Sightseers) Wheatley scores again with A Field In England, touted – inexplicably – as a horror film, it's an hallucinogenic black and white journey into delirious civil war England where five men hunt for treasure and go crazy. In a field.