I'm ON VACATION!!!!!

So out of touch.  My work wife asked me the other day "What's the password?"  I tried "Walt Sent Me" and "Swordfish" but got nothing.  I'm not up on my movie passwords these days.  But judging from her voice, maybe it was one of those Monsters Inc. movies or something.  Anyway, the fifth Marvel (TM) (R) (C) movie this year is #1, go figure.  This one's called Ant-Man and the Wasp, and its IMDb page is all gussied up for now.  Love that.  Love the new Flash-free HTML5 and CSS3 combo... that's what it is, right?  We actually watched the new Justice League last night, and... well, let's just say that Marvel's way ahead for now.  But they did get Joss Whedon, a well known Marvel conspirator, to help out with the story!  No Comic-Con revolt over that?  No one saying that Whedon sold out to the enemy?  Well, if no one complains that J. J. Abrams is working on both Star Wars and Star Trek, I guess no one cares about Whedon's choice of employer either.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the Top 10, Deadpool 2 bubbles back up from obscurity.  So we got Marvel (TM) (C) (R) at both ends of the Top 10 this week.  Clearly we need to use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act on Marvel (TM) (R) (C), but I guess it's not going to happen.  Quite the opposite these days; not to be outdone by Comcast, AT&T now owns Time Warner.  We'll see how quickly this impacts the Warner Bros. movies; how quickly it will say under the shield "An AT&T Company" instead of "A TimeWarner Company," that kind of surface thing.
The only other debut this week is something called The First Purge.  I guess it's supposed to be some kind of prequel or something.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept of "The Purge," I'll try to get you up to speed: see, it's a tweak to the criminal justice system, and tweak is probably the right word for it.  There's a twelve hour period out of a 365-day year where all crime is legal.  So, if you, for example, commit a murder or a robbery during said "The Purge," and the cops go into the crime scene and gather evidence (fingerprints, DNA, what have you), they bag it and tag it and take it back to the lab and say "Nope, can't use it.  It's another Purge case.  Just send it to the basement, fast-track it."  And just like "Better Call Saul" and the various Star Wars stories, even something like "The Purge" gets the occasional case of prequel fever.  The First Purge is sort of a test-market version of the purge.  It's still 12 hours, but it's confined to Staten Island.  And the best part?  You can leave Staten Island during the Purge, but there's a $5,000 bonus if you stay!  Wonder what you get if you refer a friend.  Hmm... reminds me of that old Cherokee legend.  I'm assuming this Internet footnote is correct, of course.  But it does seem like we're opting to go with the Evil Wolf these days.  Take the new Sicario, for example.  I'm assuming it's continuing the fine tradition of that last scene where Alejandro convinces Kate Macer to sign off on the assignment.
...damn.  Almost forgot to ask again.  How about Matt Skerritt?