Hardly seems a week since the BB final. At least The Law Of The Playground is back though, which pleased Lisa. The BB final panned out as predicted, with Pete winning of course. For many weeks I’d pictured that scene with Pete and Glyn the only two people left in the house, and it was [...]
Thursday, August 17, 2006
In the last proper, reflective episode of this series, there is consternation about Aisleyne not having delivered a proper eulogy for Pete. All very unfair. Welsh speaking day in the house. Glyn took the opportunity to make Nikki say some uncomplementary things about herself in the diary room. Russell Brand has been on great form [...]
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Despite what many critics have said, Superman Returns is actually a very effectively realised treatment of a myth that was always going to be difficult to revive. The eighties were into irreverent deconstruction and role reversal – to the extent that it might be considered that no further cinematic statements on Superman were going to [...]
So Sloane is trapped in a tomb forever (immortality at a heavy price – he can’t even play Sodoku) and Irina has fallen to her death because she chose Rombaldi over Sydney. Sydney, Vaughan and child flash forward into the future and they have a remote house by the beach. But they haven’t quite hung [...]
Tempting to think that the massive scheduling break (four months) between episodes 9 and 10 was due to the arrival of Jennifer Garner’s baby. I don’t doubt that this had something to do with it, but it does seem to be a deliberate policy with US TV drama to pause half way through a series [...]