I watched Automata last night on Netflix. It's a film about robots developing higher intelligence and becoming 'alive'. It tries to be a bit I, Robot and Blade Runner but really doesn't have any characters or enough story to drive it for the 1h50m it lasts. It means well but it can't be escaped that it's really tedious to watch. Which is a real shame.

I took Mini Fop to Big Hero 6 yesterday. Ghibli-beautiful in places. Some genuinely funny gags, largely at the expense of Baymax, the big Michelin Man-style robot.

I felt like there were nods to anime/Manga that I didn't fully understand because they're not really my fing. I also felt that didn't matter.

I blubbed. My wife blubbed. My daughter loves Baymax.

If you have a child, it's mandatory you see this.

If you don' have a child, don't rush into it. They're very expensive, your life is no longer your own, and you really are in it for the long haul. Make your choices.

21 Jump Street was pretty funny. Is it basically the same thing again?

Pretty much. But with different jokes

American Reunion was on last night, and I watched it, but couldn't work out how he became a sniper.

[/obvious joke]

Anyway, it was extremely similar to the other ones, and made me laugh without making me think. Also, a spectacular Craster Scale score.

I've never seen Brazil, it it worth watching?

I've never seen Brazil, it it worth watching?

Speaking of demons, many supernatural films deal in demon possession, and they couldn't scare anybody. But "Calvary," if not outright frightening, is genuinely alarming in its subtle hint of something terribly wrong within the town. I imagine most people will watch the film and merely see the village as populated by vivid eccentrics. But a closer look at these odd, bitter, hostile characters will suggest something darker at work.

Indeed, the bulk of the movie consists of a series of bizarre encounters between Father James and the villagers, who taunt him and challenge his faith and carry on in outlandish ways that barely conceal their misery. Whether you choose to see them as metaphorically or literally demon-possessed, McDonagh's intention is clearly along these lines.

A sense of gradually escalating weirdness maintains the movie's sense of forward motion, and that - plus Gleeson's scruffy humanity, used to loving effect - is quite enough for "Calvary" to hold the audience in its grip. Also look for Marie-Josee Croze, in the small and yet strangely key role of a woman transfigured by grief.

You're so wrong. The sequel was great, but not as good as the first because all the plot and story got in the way of the action.

Everything up to them getting out of the truck was all the set up it needed. I'd argue even the first one had a little too much plot.

It was mostly visual storytelling that I am referring to.

And Rama praying and saying goodbye to his pregnant wife.