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Just finished watching the final episode. Incredible. The last two have been two of the best, the quality just doesn't dip. And to think he was going to stop at the end of season 5...

Why? Why would we want to be more like them? I'd rather we just got better at football.

Witness Harrison Ford enters an Amish community to protect a boy who winessed a murder. I think it's only the second film I've seen Ford actually try to act in, after The Fugitive. Oh, and Blade Runner I suppose. I'm still not convinced he's that good at it, unless it involves him making a sheepish face, which was fine in Star Wars. Anyway, decent film with a good climax which was apparently based on High Noon. 7.8 out of 10

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Brilliant storytelling. I love mondays.

Man On The Moon Andy Kaufman biopic. What a character, I love the Great Gatsby thing. Very good, and quite sad. 8.5/10 [YOUTUBE]IL3Dp6Oh3Fw[/YOUTUBE]

Don't get me wrong, I like Latitude a lot. I've been a couple of times but I was a bit disappointed last year with the 5,000-10,000 increase in tickets but no real increase in space. It became pretty much impossible to get to see anything worthwhile in the Comedy or Film tents without having to be in there an hour before it started. The trouble is, the ace that Latitude holds over Green Man is the strength of the music-alternative stages, and I suppose this is funded by the extra people. I still found it a shame, though. And that's without the incidents which led to the police presence for the whole weekend last year. I also didn't think Green Man was quite as gougey on the food and drink prices. I feel like Latitude sold its soul a little after the first few years, but perhaps that's a harsh assumption based on just last year.

I went for the first time last weekend and loved it. The type of music isn't going to attract as knobby a crowd as some others, the average age must certainly be higher than most, but it was excellent. As you say, no trouble all weekend and people were actually treated like adults by the staff. No bag checks every five minutes, they didn't seem arsed about you taking your own alcohol into the arena bit etc. Some great acts and performances, lovely place, good weather. Would definitely go again next year. It's like what Latitude claims to be like.

One of the most memorable days of my otherwise mundane existence. It was December 1996, one of the last days before we broke up from school for Christmas, and it was a Snow Day. Living right by the sea in my youth, these were as common as a Rob Jones goal at the time. Me and two of my mates were mooching around town when we spotted a one of those small bank bags of money on the floor, so we picked it up and headed down the nearest alley to count it. £600. To three 11 year olds this was like a lottery win, we'd split it three ways and buy an N64 each, we decided. However this was sure to arouse suspicion in our parents, and probably the staff of Woolworths, so this plan was abandoned. Then the moralistic wiener in me piped up, and suggested the possibility that it belonged to a little old woman who was heading to the shops to buy Christmas presents for her family. We decided to head to one of my mates' house where the ultimately unsatisfying compromise was reached where we each kept £20 and handed the rest into the police. I spent my share on Now That's What I Call Music 35, which was also unsatisfying, and it turned out that the money was claimed by an uncle of some bellend from our class, who owned a hotel. The moral of the story is this: the only people who drop £600 in the street are people who can afford to, and there's no such thing as karma. Keep it.

The fact that he's 30 is the whole point, I suspect. He's never going to get a contract half as good as that anywhere else, and no 'star' would realistically want to go there at the height of their career.

It is. I've been there before.

I fought my irrational hatred of Russell Crowe to watch 3:10 To Yuma tonight. Very enjoyable. Catching up with my westerns in the past couple of months after never being a fan of the genre, and this is certainly near the top end of the ones I've watched. Christian Bale is uniformally good in whatever he's in and despite Crowe seeming like a massive bellend, I could begrudgingly say the same about him, of the things I've seen. If he didn't come across like Bill Sykes in real life, I wouldn't mind him so much. Anyway... 8.5/10

I really liked Alex Turner's soundtrack. Way better than his band's stuff, I thought.

It's definitely worth a watch. Much like Seven Samurai in story, but nearly twice as many of them.

Anyone who's seen 13 Assassins will know what an absolute thundercunt this guy is. Fires arrows at children when he's bored. Nob.

I suppose I should elaborate. There was a competition to open the local Sea Life Centre for the most deserving local kid, and my brother won it because he'd had diabetes the previous christmas and missed a skiing trip or some shit like that. Anyway, they'd promised that Really Wild Bunch superstar Terry Nutkins would be coming to open it, but Nutkins must have decided he was too big for this gig, what with all of his other important commitments, and reneged on the deal, sending a Terry Nutkins video as consolation. Instead, they sent Bill Oddie in a limousine to our house to pick us up and take us to the Sea Life Centre (ironically it would have been quicker to walk given the proximity of the place and the one way road system outside our house at the time). He was a good ship. I was only about 10 so the only Goodies I was interested in was free sweets. I think I know who's winning.

I've been in a limousine with Bill Oddie.

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Oops, wrong post, wrong forum too. Sorry sir roger.

Guilty. More appropriately though, perhaps, I've started re-watching the Red Riding films. Police corruption, murky journalism, Paddy Considine... it's all there. Red Riding - 4oD - Channel 4

Gets better and better.

Two films about people shitting people up... American Psycho Seen it a few times before, but I like it a lot. The book is a bit better, although heavy going at times, but Christian Bale did a good job before he turned into a bit of a nob. Quite funny too. - 8/10 Straw Dogs Thought I'd watch it properly before Hollywood gets it's grubby mits on it. I loved it, my kind of 'horror' film, like The Wicker Man and Deliverance, and I like films that explore man's breaking point. Dustin Hoffman is unequivocally good. American and his wife go to live in a Cornish cottage, locals don't take kindly to him. Can he maintain his pascifism in the face of provocation? No. - 9/10

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