Open Season (2006, Cynical Money-Grabbing Animated Adventure) – 1/10 movie review

Cast / crew Martin Lawrence: Boog Ashton Kutcher: Elliot Debra Messing: Beth Gary Sinise: Shaw Billy Connolly: McSquizzy Jon Favreau: Reilly Director: Roger Allers Director: Jill Culton Co-Director: Anthony F. Stacchi Producer: Michelle Murdocca Executive Producer: John Carls Executive Producer: Steve Moore Writer (Screenplay): Steve Bencich Writer (Screenplay): Ron J. Friedman Writer (Screenplay): Nat Mauldin Writer (Screen Story): Jill Culton Writer (Screen Story): Anthony F. Stacchi Writer (Original Story): Steve Moore Writer (Original Story): John Carls Michelle Murdocca: Maria

Open Season (2006) Domesticated bear Boog gets deposited at the top of the mountain after meeting unwanted deer friend Elliot but as he tries to get back home he comes down into the hunting grounds and it’s open season. 1/10 Opening with a production company logo that literally falls flat and moving quickly on to a bear voiced by a just-woken-up, unrecognisable (and possibly wasted) Martin Lawrence before introducing the common demoninator of just about all non-Pixar CG animated movies, the intensely charmless, selfish sidekick (Ashton Kutcher, who appears to have wandered in from Madagascar), Open Season near instantly wears out it’s welcome. Typically, for this genre of children’s film, it teaches them that getting found out or caught in a lie is the worse thing that can happen and that selfishness (aka follow your heart; Elliot is only concerned with making Boog his friend; Boog is only concerned with getting home) is the way to live your life. Oh, and destruction and violence is the answer to everything. And that hurling rabbits at each other is fun. This is entirely devoid of charm and merit and a hateful lie of a movie. This movie contains mild bad language and unpleasant scenes. Classified PG by BBFC. Parental Guidance.

Xbox 360 vs PS3 vs PC Head-to-Head Face Off: Blur

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•  Blur

The Janson Directive (2002, Conspiracy Thriller) – 7/10 book review

Cast / crew Writer: Robert Ludlum

Janson Directive, The (2002) Paul Janson, a former Con-Ops legend and current high-level private security advisor, is requested by his former employers to retrieve munificent billionaire Peter Novak from the clutches of a Middle-Eastern country who plan to publicly execute him. Though reluctant to have anything to do with the American military again, Janson puts his own personal feelings aside to plan and lead the rescue of Peter Novak, a great man who was responsible for saving Janson’s life several years earlier. 7/10 Largely thrilling page-turner with an intriguing central conceit (through his charitable foundation a billionaire accomplishes what the American government can’t due to foreign policy and international etiquette, SPOILER except he is a fictitious character, played by multiple surgically altered agents, created by the American government to do just that). There are a couple of marvellous rug-pulling moments though the first one is undermined by the later revelation it was done on purpose (though it’s not clear why) and it has the unfortunate effect of making the entire story feel a bit of a cheat. Nevertheless, this ticks most of the boxes you want from a thriller novel. This Robert Ludlum book contains sexual swear words, adult dialogue and graphic violence, unpleasant and sadistic torture scenes and sexuality.

Fracture (2007, Perfect Murder Drama) – 8/10 movie review

Cast / crew Producer: Charles Weinstock Director: Gregory Hoblit Anthony Hopkins: Ted Crawford Ryan Gosling: Willy Beachum David Strathairn: Joe Lobruto Rosamund Pike: Nikki Gardner Embeth Davidtz: Jennifer Crawford Billy Burke: Rob Nunally Cliff Curtis: Detective Flores Fiona Shaw: Judge Robinson Bob Gunton: Judge Gardner Writer (Screenplay): Daniel Pyne Writer (Screenplay): Glenn Gers Writer (Story): Daniel Pyne

Fracture (2007) Ted Crawford has decided to kill his adulterous wife but is immediately arrested and charged with him holding the gun, standing over the shot body of his wife and having confessed twice. A nice open-and-shut case for moving-on Assistant District Attorney Willie Beachum turns out to be anything but when Crawford wheels out a surprise piece of evidence in court. 8/10 While I may be rather stupid for having no idea why this is called Fracture, this is a highly enjoyable perfect murder movie which manages to not do anything silly and doesn’t devolve into a violent climax (a couple of dim alternate endings are narrowly avoided). Director Gregory Hoblit has always been a frustrating filmmaker as he has taken a number of terrific concepts and ideas and turned them into rather dull movies. Here, however, his usual lethargic pace is just about kept in check by the fun of watching Anthony Hopkins waddle smugly around the screen and wondering how Ryan Gosling is going to be able to catch him. The final solution is, most unusually, highly satisfying. This movie contains sexual swear words, adult dialogue and inferred gun violence, unpleasant scenes and sexuality. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over.

Xbox 360 vs PS3 Head-to-Head Face Off: Red Dead Redemption

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•   Red Dead Redemption

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009, Action Shooter, PS3) – 9/10 game review

Cast / crew Director: Jason West

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) Single player: Take on the role of a contemporary American soldier fighting against Russian invaders on American soil and a British commando fighting some other dudes somewhere else. Ah, yes, a plot. Modern Warfare 2 has one. That explains all that. Sort of. Online multiplayer: classic multiplayer modes are bolstered by a robust and lengthy rewards system involving perks, equipment and levelling. Spec Ops: earn stars for tackling coop-focused missions (split-screen or online) at different difficulty levels. Most of them can also be played alone. 9/10 A remarkably non-sensical and poorly-presented story does nothing to diminish the totally incredible, perfect, genre-defining shooting experience that Infinity Ward delivers yet again. Add to this the usual roster of multiplayer goodness and a new coop mode and you’ve got an incredibly polished, superbly-animated action game which pushes all the right buttons but you might feel a little more manipulated and hit-over-the-head than before. The controversial and optional civilian massacre level is really bad in design, story and concept and simply should not have been included as-is for quality reasons. This game contains two sexual swear words and graphic war violence, optional potentially disturbing massacre violence. Classified 18 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over. Links Lens of Truth Head-to-Head: 360 Eurogamer Head-to-Head: 360 Eurogamer Head-to-Head: PC IGN Head-to-Head: 360 Previous Call of Duty: World at War Previous Modern Warfare Call of Duty Screened by Slimm

Drunken Angel aka Yoidore tenshi (1948, Akira Kurosawa Gangster Medical Drama) – 6/10 movie review

Cast / crew Writer: Keinosuke Uegusa Writer: Akira Kurosawa Takashi Shimura: Sanada Toshiro Mifune: Matsunaga Reisaburo Yamamoto: Okada Director: Akira Kurosawa

Drunken Angel aka Yoidore tenshi (1948) Doctor Sanada, in his typically blunt manner, tells local gangster Matsunaga that he may have tuberculosis and that treatment and a change in his lifestyle will become necessary. Understanding Matsunaga’s violent response as revealing a person scared of death and not beyond redemption or help, Sanada continues to offer assistance but will Matsunaga have the will power to overcome his bravado and environment? 6/10 The first of fifteen collaborations between actor Toshiro Mifune and director Akira Kurosawa is reasonable little film that looks at true courage. Mifune’s gangster boldly but irrelevantly proclaims that he isn’t afraid of death when first told he may have tuberculosis but finds it just beyond his will power to stop drinking, fighting, having sex and associating with those who would encourage him to do so. Meanwhile, a young girl is instructed to stop running and eating sweets and she does. The eponymous drunken angel is another Kurosawa regular, Takashi Shimura, and is slightly more rambunctious than his normal characters. He does well in balancing the drunken and the angel and conveying how closely related, but entirely different, courage and recklessness are. Who is stronger? Who has more courage, more will power? This movie contains mild adult dialogue and knife violence, melee violence. Classified PG by BBFC. Parental Guidance.

Blake Edwards’ Revenge of the Pink Panther Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Henry Mancini (1978, Soundtrack Music) – 9/10 music review

Cast / crew Composer: Henry Mancini

Blake Edwards’ Revenge of the Pink Panther Revenge of the Pink Panther Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1978) Henry Mancini’s original soundtrack to the 1978 action comedy movie Blake Edwards’ Revenge of the Pink Panther. The song Thank Heavens for Little Girls performed by Inspector Clouseau is not in the movie. 9/10 While Henry Mancini will never be remembered for this album, he should be. It is a constantly witty, thoroughly delightful and unusual score. Mancini’s mastery of melody shines through, we get the liveliest (and, I think, best) rendition of the Pink Panther theme, Hong Kong Fireworks might be the best comedy music ever written and we even get the bonus of Inspector Clouseau performing Thank Heavens for Little Girls.

Secret Service (2008, 24-Alike Conspiracy First-Person Shooter) – 6/10 game review

Cast / crew Game Designer: Jozef Hudec Director: Jozef Hudec Project Manager: L’uboš Kubiš

Secret Service (2008) As part of the President’s Secret Service detail, you face the worst situation possible when an all-out attack on his life is made and you become the key player in stopping a military coup. 6/10 Satisfactory shooter which feels like a couple of episodes of 24, good 24, that is. It looks nice, handles okay (though not perfectly) with the Call of Duty control scheme (something a surprising number of shooters stupidly fail to do), and features baddies that sound like they keep saying "Carlos Santana forever" which rules (they’re actually saying Costa Sentava). There’s also some nice touches (grandfather clocks in the White House tick), the script and voice-acting is definitely above-average, and the music is terrific (very Bourne Conspiracy). It’s tightly focused on the story at hand and all the better for it. This game contains gun violence.

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Doctor Who 32.07 Amy’s Choice (2010, Science Fiction Adventure) – 8/10 TV review

Cast / crew Matt Smith: The Doctor Karen Gillan: Amy Pond Writer: Simon Nye Producer: Tracie Simpson Director: Catherine Morshead Arthur Darvill: Rory Toby Jones: Dream Lord

Doctor Who 32.07 Amy’s Choice (2010) Five years after the Venice outing, the Doctor returns to the village where Amy is married and expecting a child. Then all three of them fall asleep and wake up on the TARDIS. 8/10 So if last week’s vampires were typically useless how do we improve on that? How about lawnmower wielding OAPs that have an eye in their mouth that turns you to dust? This is a snappy, imaginative, interesting episode with two sets of fun baddies: the afore-mentioned malevolent pensioners and the Dream Lord played with charismatic glee by Toby Jones. It gets the viewer involved by asking the characters and the audience the same question – which world is the real one? – and distracts the audience from the first answer that will have popped into their head (SPOILERthey’re both not real) by using a powerful emotional situation involving our heroine being told to choose which of her “boys” she would ultimately pick. This Doctor Who episode contains unpleasant scenes. Links Previous: The Vampire of Venice Next: The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood

Doctor Who 32.06 The Vampires of Venice (2010, Science Fiction Adventure) – 6/10 TV review

Cast / crew Matt Smith: The Doctor Karen Gillan: Amy Pond Writer: Toby Whithouse Producer: Tracie Simpson Producer: Patrick Schweitzer Director: Jonny Campbell Arthur Darvill: Rory Helen McCrory: Rosanna

Doctor Who 32.06 Vampires of Venice, The (2010) The Doctor takes Amy and her fiancée, Rory, to Venice so that their relationship won’t be unbalanced by her having experienced the amazingness of travel through time and space and him not. Naturally, something dangerous is about to happen, this time with a finishing school which turns young girls into vampires. 6/10 Everything containing vampires is inherently a bit useless as they are nearly always character vacuums, sucking life out of the plot through unconvincing and inconsistent ‘rules’ and motivations. This episode also suffers from the makers feeling the need to make everything life-threatening but without giving the story time to make it so. This renders heroic acts contextless and self-sacrifice worthless. That said, there are some nice lines and fun scenes, Matt Smith is terrific and the story frame with Amy and her fiancée is a good, interesting one. It’s a shame writer Toby Whithouse wasn’t allowed or guided to stick closer to that and make this a more low-key episode with a fun and interesting story. Instead, it’s a poor adventure with fake peril, the worst kind. This Doctor Who episode contains unpleasant scenes. Links Previous: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone Next: Amy’s Choice

Red Lights aka Feux rouges (2003, French Thriller) – 6/10 movie review

Cast / crew Producer: Patrick Godeau Jean Pierre Darroussin: Antoine Carole Bouquet: Hélène Writer (Screenplay): Cédric Kahn Writer (Screenplay): Laurence Ferreira-Barbosa Writer (Additional): Gilles Marchand Writer (Original Novel): Georges Simenon Director: Cédric Kahn

Red Lights aka Feux rouges (2003) As they travel to pick up their children from summer camp, Antoine and Hélène have a typical domestic argument about getting lost and him stopping off for sneaky drinks. Exasperated, Hélène leaves him when he stops for yet another ‘toilet break’ and catches a train. Failing to catch her at the train station, Antoine turns around and spies a bar and decides to have one or two more for the road. One argument is about to cause a night neither of them will ever forget. 6/10 Successfully keeping the attention through crisp scripting and directing, this is a low-key sold-as-a-thriller with none of the histrionics that would be required by Hollywood and all the better for it. Once the events of the night have unfolded for Antoine (Jean Pierre Darroussin), director / co-writer Cédric Kahn delivers an impressive sequence where the audience is as disoriented as Antoine himself is as he realises that his wife is missing. Simply by a fade-to-black in the previous, unresolved, scene, he puts the audience off balance and gets them more involved in the movie by questioning what exactly is going on. When all is resolved at the end, Red Lights has proven to be an neat little movie, definitely worth watching as an intriguing juxtaposition to similarly themed but completely differently presented Hollywood thrillers. This movie contains a single sexual swear word and substance abuse and a single scene of strong violence, unpleasant and gory scene. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over.

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•   Aliens vs. Predator
•   Dead to Rights: Retribution
•   GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City
•   Resonance of Fate
•   Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing
•   Star Ocean: The Last Hope
•   Super Street Fighter IV
•   Superstars V8: Next Challenge

T.J. Hooker 3.05 The Shadow of Truth (1983, Police Action Drama) – 6/10 TV review

Cast / crew William Shatner: T.J. Hooker Adrian Zmed: Officer Vince Romano Heather Locklear: Officer Stacy Sheridan James Darren: Jim Corrigan Writer (Series’ Creator): Rick Husky Helen Shaver: Lisa Jericho Nicolas Coster: Kevin Mundy Luke Askew: Brad Thurman Richard Herd: Captain Dennis Sheridan Supervising Producer: Rick Husky Producer: Jeffrey Hayes Writer: Robert Sherman Director: Cliff Bole

T.J. Hooker 3.05 Shadow of Truth, The (1983) Hooker’s latest girlfriend, investigative reporter Lisa Jericho, is rubbing the police department up the wrong way by exposing dodgy tactics employed by some but another target of her investigations is taking action: a contract is put out on her life. 6/10 Freqently solid fun, if credulity-stretching, with surprisingly few car chases but good chemistry between Shatner and Helen Shaver as his latest girlfriend. Hooker’s insanely wide-ranging knowledge this week includes geology and the ability to instantly analyse soil content just from picking it up. Oh, and he can bend the laws of space and time as he manages to drive down a hill, identify a man, work out what he’s doing there, run across a car park and leap across a car before the man can flip a switch. There is also plenty of bikini and girl-in-man’s-shirt (hurrah!) action to keep the less demanding male viewer entertained. The climax also features a bit of unintentional hilarity as Lisa Jericho looks aghast at the dead body of the baddie, then up at Hooker… who grins back at her. It’s so wrong, it’s awesome. This T.J. Hooker episode contains violence, unpleasant scenes. Links Previous: The Cheerleader Murder Next: Walk a Straight Line

The Last Legion (2006, Period Action Movie) – 5/10 movie review

Cast / crew Director: Doug Lefler Writer (Screenplay): Jez Butterworth Writer (Screenplay): Tom Butterworth Writer (Story): Carlo Carlei Writer (Story): Peter Radar Writer (Story): Valerio Massimo Manfredi Writer (Original Novel): Valerio Massimo Manfredi Producer: Raffaella De Laurentiis Producer: Martha De Laurentiis Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar Producer (Presents credit): Dino De Laurentiis Colin Firth: Aurelius Ben Kingsley: Ambrosinus / SPOILERMerlin Aishwarya Rai: Mira Peter Mullan: Odoacer Kevin McKidd: Wulfila John Hannah: Nestor Iain Glen: Orestes Thomas Sangster: Romulus

Last Legion, The (2006) As the Roman Empire finally succumbs to history, the last Caesar, Romulus Augustus, still a boy, flees to join his last legion in the north of Britannia. 5/10 I’m glad to say that this isn’t as awful as the trailers made it look and the final result passes the time and keeps the attention. However, it does feel like a television mini-series that has been edited down to feature film length as the plot feels barely coherent. Odd child actor Thomas Sangster wanders emotionlessly through another part while Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley, surprisingly, don’t embarrass themselves. Talented composer Patrick Doyle adds some quality through his fitting score. This movie contains sword violence, mild gory and unpleasant scenes. Classified 12A by BBFC. Persons under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Luther 1.01 (2010, Maverick Cop Drama) – 6/10 TV review

Cast / crew Idris Elba: DCI John Luther Ruth Wilson: Alice Morgan Warren Brown: DS Justin Ripley Creator: Neil Cross Writer: Neil Cross Producer: Katie Swinden Director: Brian Kirk Associate Producer: Idris Elba

Luther 1.01 Luther Episode 1 of 6 (2010) Brilliant maverick cop who doesn’t follow the rules John Luther has a failing marriage and, on return from suspension for an investigation into whether he coerced a paedophile serial killer to reveal the location of his latest victim, is assigned to investigate a double murder. He quickly decides that the brilliant but psychopathic daughter did it (she didn’t yawn when he did, obvious really) but knows he will not be able to prove it and so both killer and detective decide to make it personal. 6/10 This is a maverick cop show with so many writing and directing clichés that the opening scenes featuring a paedophile serial killer are genuinely funny. They’re not supposed to be. As the episode continues it appears that writer Neil Cross is only capable of cut-and-pasting clichés together and you wonder if there will be any room left for a plot. As it turns out, no. The case-of-the-week is solved in a single sentence after precisely no detective work. It’s an entertaining and unique solution, though, and that’s the odd thing. Luther has a quality that makes you hope that it is slightly smarter, slightly better than it appears; as if the emphasis on cliché is purposeful. I’ll give it another week. This Luther episode contains bad language, adult dialogue and violence against a poor innocent door, very gory and unpleasant scenes.

Doctor Who 32.03 Victory of the Daleks (2010, Science Fiction Adventure) – 6/10 TV review

Cast / crew Matt Smith: The Doctor Karen Gillan: Amy Pond Writer: Mark Gatiss Producer: Peter Bennett Director: Andrew Gunn Ian McNeice: Churchill Creator Daleks: Terry Nation Executive Producer: Steven Moffat

Doctor Who 32.03 Victory of the Daleks (2010) A call from Winston Churchill brings the Doctor and Amy to World War II London but he has a shock in store when he unveils his secret weapon: a Dalek. 6/10 It’s fun to see a Dalek wearing a Union Flag and fighting alongside Winston Churchill in World War II and Matt Smith again manages to segue between fun and fury far more neatly than David Tennant ever did (and he wields a mean jammy-dodger) but Mark Gatiss’ script is largely unconvincing. Essentially, the Doctor keeps asking the Daleks what the plot is and they keep telling him. It builds to a typically weighty moral dilemma (save the Earth or save the rest of the Universe) but it has no impact and no emotional resonance. This Doctor Who episode contains bad language and unpleasant scenes, violence. Classified PG by BBFC. Parental Guidance. Links Next: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone Previous: The Beast Below

Doctor Who 32.04,05 The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone (2010, Science Fiction Adventure) – 7/10 TV review

Cast / crew Matt Smith: The Doctor Karen Gillan: Amy Pond Writer: Steven Moffat Producer: Tracie Simpson Director: Adam Smith Executive Producer: Steven Moffat

Doctor Who 32.04,05 Time of Angels, The / Flesh and Stone (2010) The Doctor gets a inter-time call from River Song who is trying to stop a spaceship transporting a Weeping Angel. 7/10 I always like it when a writer includes something that is significant that we, the audience, don’t realise is significant until it’s pointed out to us; at which point we wonder why we didn’t register it ourselves. Steven Moffat delivers that here (SPOILER the alien planet we’re on this week has aliens with two heads) and it one of a number of quality pieces of business through the double episode. There is a great gag regarding the noise the TARDIS makes when it arrives somewhere (SPOILER the Doctor keep leaving the brakes on). The cliffhanger for the first part is also brilliantly written as the Doctor points out the one thing you should never, ever put in a trap and, remarkably, Moffat comes up with an equally brilliant escape (SPOILER "Jump!") as the start of the second part. Like The Doctor himself, I’m not too sure about the 21st-century sexuality that pops up at the end. Sadly, it’s a sign of the times. This Doctor Who episode contains adult dialogue and unpleasant and scary scenes. Links Previous: Victory of the Daleks Next: The Vampires of Venice

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Superbike 2001 (2000, Motorcycle Racing Game) – 8/10 game review

Cast / crew Director: Antonio Farina

Superbike 2001 (2000) 8/10 Instantly impressive motorcycle racing game with outstanding animation, graphics and control. The animation is astonishing making this the best motorcycle video games have ever looked. Even without rag-dolls, the crashes, near-misses and bikes trying to unseat riders looks completely amazing and convincing (perhaps because the rider doesn’t disappear once a crash starts). Once you add the touch that your rider has to walk back to his bike and pick it up to continue (as do crashed AI riders), you genuinely cannot understand why motorcycle games since ignored everything amazing this game did. What is really odd is that the creative people behind this game still make motorcycle games at Milestone. Just worse ones. (Additionally, this works on Windows 7 in 98/ME Compatibility mode and with the 360 controller and in widescreen!)

House M.D. 6.18 Open and Shut (2010, Black Comedy Medical Drama) – 6/10 TV review

Cast / crew Hugh Laurie: Dr. Gregory House Lisa Edelstein: Dr. Lisa Cuddy Omar Epps: Dr. Eric Foreman Robert Sean Leonard: Dr. James Wilson Jesse Spencer: Dr. Robert Chase Creator: David Shore Peter Jacobson: Dr. Chris Taub Olivia Wilde: Thirteen Cynthia Watros: Sam Carr Sarah Wayne Callies: Julia Rob Evors: Tom Jennifer Crystal Foley: Rachel Taub Charlie Weber: Damien Producer: Marcy G. Kaplan Producer: Sara Hess Supervising Producer: Liz Friedman Co-Executive Producer: Greg Yaitanes Executive Producer: Hugh Laurie Executive Producer: David Shore Writer: Sara Hess Writer: Liz Friedman Director: Greg Yaitanes

House M.D. 6.18 Open and Shut (2010) House, in the exact opposite of what he said last week, is trying to push Wilson and Sam to make-or-break their relationship. Patient-of-the-week has a functioning open marriage which intrigues House and miffs / gives ideas to a temptation-baiting Taub who is currently sniffing around another affair. 6/10 Some vaguely interesting stuff about relationships this week as the patient has an open marriage, Taub wants an open marriage and Wilson’s relationship with his ex-wife is about to hit it’s first pothole. The drama is thought-provoking if you want it to be and is much better than the worthless medical element which is as unconvincing as it always is now. The medical dramas need to be scaled back; they are always so ridiculously life-threatening as to remove any sense of drama and the circuitous diagnoses are poorly explained to the audience. House and his team may as well be ‘rhubarb’-ing around the conference table. This House M.D. episode contains strong adult dialogue and unpleasant and gory scenes and sexuality. Links Previous episode: Knight Fall