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[Adam Balson]

Oh cool. Is it the final due to cancellation or is it because that's where he wants to end the story?

[Will Carper]

I believe they're choosing to end it. Though, as of the end of season 4, Gilligan and the writers hadn't concretely planned how it would wrap up. I'm sure that's changed by now, though.

[Carlos Mancilla II]

I believe they're choosing to end it. Though, as of the end of season 4, Gilligan and the writers hadn't concretely planned how it would wrap up. I'm sure that's changed by now, though.

Gilligan has said that the show is ending on his terms

[Robert B]

Tonight I became perhaps the only person on the planet to watch Irreversible a second time.

[Adam Wednesdays]

Tonight I became perhaps the only person on the planet to watch Irreversible a second time.

Good God, WHY?!

I mean, I know why, I've thought about going back and watching it again... but I've never had the fortitude to do it.

[Will Carper]

Have you guys seen Enter the Void?

[Robert B]

Good God, WHY?!

I mean, I know why, I've thought about going back and watching it again... but I've never had the fortitude to do it.

Shock value stuff doesn't always work on me, and I like movies that are sadistic (though I don't know if this one is).

It's actually a fairly tedious movie, all things considered, but I do find the whole more interesting than the sum of its parts.

[Johnny Henning]

Have you guys seen Enter the Void?

I've heard mixed reviews. It seemed a little boring, but, then again, so do many Wong Kar-wai movies.

[steveuk]

'Covert Affairs'. Never seen it before and its very generic, fun spy show, stuff.

But.... this episode is set in London. We've already had some badly underfunded, fake, driving shots through Piccadilly Circus and an excess of stock footage.

I'll stick with it for now.

[Ogul]

Yeah, I enjoy Covert Affairs, it's a fun show. The thing I like about it is that she's not some super spy jumping off buildings while shooting two pistols, she's a fairly believable linguist and reasonably clever agent that screws up at least half the time and has to fix it somehow. There are still a lot of elements that aren't exactly realistic, but it's much closer to real life spycraft than most spy programs manage. Except for ####ing Daredevil.

[Nicholas Taggart]

I am watching Top Gun. Because it is great.

[Adam Wednesdays]

Shock value stuff doesn't always work on me, and I like movies that are sadistic (though I don't know if this one is).

It's actually a fairly tedious movie, all things considered, but I do find the whole more interesting than the sum of its parts.

I agree. I remember finding it much more interesting after it was done than I did when I was actually watching it.

[Will Carper]

I've heard mixed reviews. It seemed a little boring, but, then again, so do many Wong Kar-wai movies.

It's very slow but I was absorbed by it once it becomes the movie that it wants to be, maybe a half hour in.

[Christian U]

Saw a few episodes of Little Britain yesterday, with friends who have all the DVDs. I thought it was quite funny, the wife didn't. Heh.

[David Chapman]

In South Park, the anti-semitism comes from the despicable, damaged character and is clearly meant to be frowned on (just like it was with Archie Bunker).

There's an episode where Cartman's picking on ginger kids, so Kyle dyes Cartman's hair ginger while he sleeps so he can learn what it's like. Cartman's response is to turn into a ginger Hitler and rabble-rouse all the gingers into a pogrom against everyone else. He doesn't hate anyone because they're black or Jewish or anything else; he hates them because they're not like him.

[Will Carper]

I reviewed SHAME for my blog:

http://timemachinego...12/01/21/shame/

Definitely my movie of the year (I include a top 10 at the end).

[Dave Hudson]

The Ruins - A bunch of young Americans are lured into a Mexican jungle by a somewhat sinister German and end up encountering something nasty.

It's nice to see a modern horror movie that offers up something a bit different to the same old stalk and slash, the characters are a bit more rounded than the usual horror fodder and the gore is used sparingly but effectively.

Spoiler

Although I wonder why the natives didn't just burn those bloody plants year ago.

[steveuk]

The Ruins - A bunch of young Americans are lured into a Mexican jungle by a somewhat sinister German and end up encountering something nasty.

It's nice to see a modern horror movie that offers up something a bit different to the same old stalk and slash, the characters are a bit more rounded than the usual horror fodder and the gore is used sparingly but effectively.

Spoiler

Although I wonder why the natives didn't just burn those bloody plants year ago.

The film didn't really work for me. It was a good idea but the characters never actually engaged me at all.

It's one of those films I might give another try one day, just to see if I was in a bad mood when I tried to watch it.

This morning is lazy and I'm watching the rain clouds come and go. The TV is entertaining me with some good history programmes; Neil Oliver's 'History of Scotland' Robert Bartlett's 'The Normans'.

'The Normans' is a very well made show, but Oliver's series is really excellent. He's a good presenter anyway, but this brought out his best work by far.

[stephanie familiar]

watching a documentary on the ipswich murders.

[David Meadows]

The Adjustment Bureau. Interesting, but the ending let it down. Even though you could see thatthe ending was inevitable from about half waythrough the film, it still felt like a cop out when you got there.

Didn't realise it was based on Philip K Dick until I saw the credit at the end. One I've never read... I can see it's his kind of idea, but I assume it's very loosely based, as usual with these things (Jonny Henning nee California will hopefully pop in and tell me).