The mummy came out (again) last month.

At first I thought it would be horrible because the entire thing had been changed to a generic action movie in the jungle. Then I watched the trailer. It looks amazing. Definitely up my street, even though the original is frankly super, I can imagine that they exist in different universes and won't in any way be disrespectful to the amazing Robin Williams .

Imagine for a moment that I thought Despicable me 2 was boring shit. Should I sleep through this one?

Saw Baby Driver last night. It's very good

I fucking loved it. I'm pounding the soundtrack into my ears right now. (Disclaimer: I am an enormous fan of everything Edgar Wright has ever made. Adjust for bias accordingly.)

It's interestingly not quite like his other work, perhaps because it's not an outright comedy. Still has lots of Wrightisms though, like tack-sharp editing, spectacular match cuts and smash cuts, clever juxtaposition and superb foley (eg. exaggerated swooping sound as Baby grabs his jacket and marches out of the house, which dates back to Spaced). Golly, what a bravura piece of film making. Kermode's review was spot on. Just the opening two scenes alone (first heist, then getting coffee) are some of the most electrifying cinema I've seen in a long while. And obviously the soundtrack is fried gold.

I wanted to watch it again almost as soon as I left.

But is it a musical?

Yup, I agree with all of that. It also has a lot of heart. I think it will be much copied, it's a rare example of style and substance that works.

This feels like Wright's breakthrough-to-superstar-status moment, I think he's going to be novahot after this.

Wonder Woman is similar to Captain America's origin story but much crapper. Damn she fine though. But it's still crap. 2 hours and 20 minutes, though; Jesus Christ, that's far too long. It could easily be 40 minutes shorter if they cut out all the pregnant pauses. Still, dat ass. But crap.

Film: Crap out of 10.
Ass: Dayyum out of 10.

Wonder Woman was better than the first Cap film, but Cap 2 was amazing and Cap 3 was really good too.

We watched a film last night, the name of which escapes me but it has Cillian Murphy in it, which was oddly compelling. A somewhat predictable twist at the end though.

Oh, Free Fire... that was it.

The entire minions franchise represents everything that is wrong with humanity

I liked Minions more than Despicable Me 1&2. I find the excessive minioning annoying and detracts from the rest of the film in the DM films, but am fine with it when it's the whole point of the film.

I don't know why they bothered putting them in DM3, they serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

I don't know why they bothered putting them in DM3, they serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

Toys and happy meals.

The entire minions franchise represents everything that is wrong with humanity

Oh yeah, I watched Edge of Tomorrow the other day after someone stated it was Bill Paxton's finest hour, and was rather pleasantly surprised... A rather high concept film for an action movie starring The Cruise. And, yes Paxton is amazing.

Minions are great, and the Minions film was brilliant, and they are, and always have been, the best bit of Despicable Me films. So ner.

I'm 99% certain I've seen Dispicable Me (the baddie looks like Joans, right?) but I do not remember the minions being part of it. I know of them because I seem to have spent four years blocking 'Minions Quotes' pages on FB, but I can't think of them in the same film.