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Millie Small, 73, of "My Boy Lollipop" fame.

Natasha Lyonne is the balls, and this show is the tits.  Best thing I've seen in absolutely ages, I had to ration it because I was enjoying it so much.  Do yourself a favour and check it out.

The cast, the script, the photography - they're all really good, but this film is all about the space.  I'm not sure there's ever been another film that makes it quite so clear and... visceral just what a fucking amazing thing it was that they did.  Go and see this in IMAX if you still can.

Also, I thought they absolutely nailed the ending.  Anything else would have been either unnecessary or insufficient.  Well done.

Charles Aznavour, dead at four-twenty-fourteen.

Alternative title: "Je hais les Lundis".

I've got to say, I expected it to take longer than just one film until the Deadpool franchise turned into what it was satirising.

I know a couple of you are fucking hot for the Dodgers, but I enjoyed the piss out of their getting swept in a four-game series by the Reds.  The fucking Reds!  Ha ha!  Fuck the Dodgers.

HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT

Utter, utter, utter fucking gash.  Don't bother.

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers. That is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." - Stephen Hawking, who rolled off this mortal coil yesterday, at the age of 76.

Ah, fuck me: Mark E. Smith, dead at just 60.

Dolores O'Riordan, "suddenly" dead at just forty-fucking-six.  Jesus Christ.

As an aside, I went to the Cranberries' first ever UK gig, at the Underworld in Camden Town in August '91.  I was 18 and Dolores 20, I guess.

Full disclosure: I'm a massive Blade Runner fanboy, and can quote you pretty much the entire script of the original movie.  Precisely because of that, though, I was extremely nervous about seeing the sequel and it was only the universally fantastic reviews that persuaded me that it would be all right.  They weren't wrong.

Honestly, there's so much to unpack that it's going to take me several more viewings before I've figured out exactly what I think about it.  Nonetheless, my initial impressions are:

- Pretty much everybody is perfectly cast, with the possible exception of Jared Leto, who was a little one-dimensional.  Harrison Ford plays thirty-years-on Deckard absolutely beautifully and I never once for a second had any doubts that he was absolutely the same guy.  There's are two fantastic cameos, too - one real and one digital: SPOILER ALERT: seeing Rachel again absolutely blew me away.

- The movie is, as you might imagine, spectacular, although very different from the original.  Urban life is a lot cleaner, more sterile and more organised in 2049 but I really like what they've done with the place, creatively speaking.  For Christ's sake, though, see it in IMAX if you possibly, possibly can.

- There's, at first viewing, precisely the right amount of homage to the original.  The sequel knows where it's come from and acknowledges and respects its roots, without ever getting bogged down or overly-referential.  There are plenty of little easter eggs in there if you know what you're looking (and listening) for, but the film nevertheless absolutely stands on its own two feet.

- Talking of listening, fair play to Hans Zimmer.  I've been less than complimentary of him around these parts but he's got this dead right, if not, inevitably, just quite up to the standards of Vangelis.  The original soundtrack was never going to be bettered and in some ways, Zimmer doesn't even try, and is even happy to let small parts of the original stand on their own.  It was fantastic to hear "Tears in Rain" again, and I'm not going to lie, I might have blubbed a little.

- Good Lord Almighty, but Ana de Armas is achingly, breathtakingly beautiful.

So, there you go.  I'll have plenty more to say once I've seen it again, but in the meantime GO AND SEE THIS FILM, especially if you hold any kind of affection for the original.  Oh, and if you haven't seen the original for a while, you might want to watch it again before you go.  You'll get a lot more out of the experience if you do.

Baywatch

Utterly, irredeemably awful.  I saw the trailer and thought it might just be knowing enough to get away with it.  It wasn't, and all the swimsuits full of Alexandra Daddario in the World couldn't have saved it.  I swear to God, you'd be better off watching the original, and I detested the original.  Absolute fucking shit.

Caveat: the last half an hour might be brilliant.  I wouldn't know, I couldn't watch any more and switched it off.

CHIPS

Talking of reboots that need to be knowing... CHIPS is a buddy-cop, Odd-Couple, dick-joke movie that's really stupid and really quite charming.  Dax Shepard and Michael Peña are hugely likeable (indeed, Peña's made a career out of it) and are clearly having fun with their roles.  If you're stuck on a flight with nothing better to watch, you could do much worse.

It's done.  If the Cubs miss the postseason I will literally chop off, cook and eat my own penis.

Lets talk about it here.  The postseason, I mean, not my penis.  If you want to talk about my penis, PM me.

How the fuck am I just now starting this thread, almost twenty-four hours after the trade went down?  I despair of this place.

A tired and hokey old story but played with very considerable charm by Michael Peña (now firmly one of my favourite actors), Alexander Skarsgård and Caleb Landry-Jones. Worth watching, if only for their performances.

Best superhero film I've seen since Deadpool, and I speak as one who has never before made it through more than ten minutes of a Spiderman film. I didn't even nod off, and that is almost unheard of for me these days. A proper ripping yarn.

Laugh-out-loud funny, spectacular, charming, gripping and more than a little emosh.  Fucking fantastic.

SPOILER ALERT

I was genuinely gutted to see the end of Yondu, one of my favourite characters in film.

Erin Moran, 56, found dead in Indiana. Jesus, what a way to go.

Richard Hatch, Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica, dead of Cylon attack (it says pancreatic cancer here, but that can't be right) at 71.

Also, how the fuck did they only make 21 episodes?  As a kid I remember watching more or less nothing except Battlestar Galactica, Bonanza, and Buck Rogers.