The acting was fine, the direction was patchy as hell. But I think we can both agree we've got better ways to waste time than talk about a movie neither of us cared for.

Since Marvel seem to be making solo movies of just about everyone they might as well chuck Black Widow into the mix, but I sort of understand their previous apprehension: she has no gimmick compared to the main Avengers.

Trevorrow helped write the script too! But yeah, he was almost certainly a yes-man as far as the studio went.

I was being mildly facetious, but I actually think Jurassic World is terrible, not middling. The first half of the movie left me unengaged and the second half left me actively annoyed. But it made 1.5 billion dollars, so hey-ho.

There was a lot of bad direction in Jurassic World: non-sequitur scenes and tonal inconsistencies in abundance.

George Lucas or the guy who inflicted Jurassic World on us?

Paul Ryan's hair is atrocious. It's like what a 12 year old boy 15 years ago would think is a cool style.

There's probably a FYC piece to be written about underdog-nostalgia.

Holy shit, this is actually good?

The irony of not being able to watch a BBC clip from the UK didn't escape me.

As final film roles (that weren't cameos) go, that's pretty damn good. Mysterious to the end.

Check out the behind the scenes interview of Bowie for that scene on youtube. He has a wicked sense of humour.

It's hard not to hear Blackstar as a deliberate goodbye in light of this. Relish it, I say.

Said it before and I'll say it again: I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't eaten up Ballard's back catalogue of novels like they did with Philip K Dick's. Almost every one of his books is an elevator pitch-worthy film in waiting (albeit R-rated).

Gangster movies are their own genre of course, but even recent ones are about tragic 'rise and falls' of individuals, and the police are generally a benign presence of occasionally corrupt. In The Warriors, gang culture is emphatically a good thing, and portrayed as positively communal in its own way.

I wouldn't watch it again, but there is something enjoyably un-PC about it. They certainly wouldn't make a movie today lionizing a bunch of low-level street thugs (no, the Fast and Furious franchise doesn't count).

It's a pity RDJ has apparently given up on everything except getting paid for Iron Man appearances. I thought he might go the Christian Bale route of having a franchise under his belt and just doing whatever interested him.

That's a horrible thing to say!

Okay-ish finale to a completely mediocre season. I feel like Quinn leaving would be a deal-breaker for me, and having him go out after giving him nothing to do this year is particularly bewildering.

Huh, I didn't realize there were people who didn't like House of the Rising Sun.