Half A Person

It's also on TV Choice on demand for those that have Virgin.

The Journey To The Center Of The Earth Cheap-looking 'B' Movie drivel. 2/10

That comedian sounds pretty shit, to be honest.

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound Springsteeny goodness.

Who is that wee boy Toadie's looking after, by the way? What's his connection to Toadie? Did he buy him or something? Just started watching this after a couple of weeks and Toadies got a new son/lover.

That looks like Monty Burns' son. But real.

Didn't you just watch O Brother, Where Art Thou? That would fall in to that category, surely.

I read that last week. It's actually really good, but immensely frustrating and very sad. I had it sitting for ages and never got round to reading it because I'm not that much of a Grisham fan, but I'm glad I eventually did.

The Observations by Jane Harris At first glance this was like something like my Mum would read: written from the point of view of a Victorian servant girl working in a mansion with a strange mistress and a distant master of the house, but in actual fact it was one of the funniest, readable books I've read in ages. It's stock full of age-old literary motifs- the creaky attic, the self-righteous vicar, the smart lady of the house who subtly shows up her pompous dinner guests , but the book doesn't suffer from this; rather, it embraces the cliches and transforms them into a delightfully written story . It just doesn't let up. Jane Harris writes the book as if the servant (Bessy Buckley) is sitting beside you telling you the story and some of her turns of phrase are delicious. This is simply wonderfully enjoyable and I would highly recommend it. I also recently read Ghostheart by R.J. Ellory, who is fast becoming my favourite current author. His writing is superb. This book concerns itself ostensibly with the story of Annie, a lonely bookshop owner who is visited by an old acquaintance of her long dead father who slowly drip feeds her information about her Dad's life. It soon becomes a book within a book. The internal story is one of gangsters and violence, in stark contrast to the tale of emotionally fragile Annie who starts to form a delicate love affair with a customer. Another fantastic book and I would advise anyone to get a hold of his books.

My son and I got a few of DVDs to watch yesterday... Sky High- 7/10 Cheesy Disney film about a super-hero High School. It's between Harry Potter Mean Girls and High School Musical and is surprisingly decent. Doesn't take itself too seriously and there's not the usual preachyness which blights a lot of kids' films. Scooby-Doo -3/10 Scooby-don't. Appalling. The Iron Giant 9/10 One of the best animated movies I've ever seen. Clever and funny and moving. It's not one of those films that 'work on two levels' i.e. a few double entendres thrown in to the script; it's just a movie that both adults and kids will enjoy because it's so well written and produced. Tremendous!

Dear Frankie - 7/10 Very decent. Sentimental, but just short of cloying. There are a few memorable, phenomenally acted scenes and it's well worth a viewing if you fancy something different from the usual formulaic action movies..... which takes me to the last film I watched, Snakes On A Plane (5/10). Actually, I enjoyed it, but I felt a bit bad afterwards like you do after knocking one out to Anna Nicole Smith. In a curious way, it's not quite bad enough to become the cult classic it clearly aims to be. It's actually quite a likeable, competent action movie like Con Air or something. It is pretty shit obviously, but as much as I'd like to pretend I'd rather be watching The Three Colours Trilogy, I can appreciate this for what it was: a dumb-ass popcorn movie which never quite hits the kitsch depths of cult crapness.

I found it a little dull to be honest

It's just nice to have some manners.

If you don't give up your seat for an old person or a woman then you're a bit of a c**t tbf.

Evan Almighty 5.5/10 Okay...just. Not funny enough, though it had potential. Better than its predecessor, Bruce Almighty tbf.

My son was formula fed and, to be honest, he's pretty thick.

My bss was discussing with me how the company was literally pouring money down the drain. I was like he was like

I've aways hated that British cock Murray.

Yes! Get stuck into this puffy nosed neutral c**t

with that shot, see when it bounced back to your side, would you not have to return it again? What I mean is: if it bounced twice on your side, would your opponent get the point or would you since the person you were playing never managed to hit it? You know what I mean?

Don King on Murray: 'His lateral movement is unrivalled in mankind!'

fucking hell.

Just break him!

Murray would do well to get some better clobber. The t-shirts he wears are like those 2 for a tenner ones you get for wearing during the day on holiday.