As the US football team prepares to kick off its World Cup campaign just down the freeway from Hollywood, the greatest living movie director has a hat-trick on his mind.
The 2015 classic Shaun The Sheep and its 2019 sequel Farmageddon set, in the admittedly uncrowded field of ovine comedies for all the family, a formidably high baa.
This sequel has expensive Jimmy Choos to fill. Happily it steps into them pretty stylishly, with the original quartet returning and doing as fine a job as you might expect.
Picture an annoyingly wacky perfume commercial stretched beyond tolerance to almost two hours, and you have some idea of what Mother Mary looks and feels like.
California Schemin' - a tremendously assured directing debut by James McAvoy - is based on a true story: that of a Scottish hip-hop duo who called themselves Silibil N' Brains.
The greatest of all Ealing comedies, the 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts And Coronets, really should be left to rest in eternal peace and everlasting appreciation.