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In The Loop (2009)

The closing film of the film festival, this was a very clever, fast and witty (if quite bleak) political satire about a British junior cabinet minister getting engrossed in American and international preparations for war.

The film is quite relentlessly cynical, but at the same time employs such a breakneck pace (don't blink! You'll miss loads of essential information) with such wonderful characters (chief whip Malcolm Tucker needs to be heard to be believed: on his own he outdoes three seasons of Deadwood in profanity!) that it's one of the most enjoyable things I've seen in a long time. In fact, if there would be an illegitimate love child between The West Wing, House Of Cards and Yes, Minister, this would be it!

The really excellent thing for me is that the film turns out to be a spin-off of a BBC series which I completely missed first time 'round (why did nobody warn me???) : The Thick Of It, which apparently is now in its third season.
Goody!

I immediately ordered the first season on DVD and am looking forward to it immensely.

Great! So the best is still to come!

Fearne and.......Peaches Geldof

Fearne, like, meets Peaches Geldof, like, you know, like, she's Saint Bob's daughter and it's, like, Fearne wants to be her friend and, like, find out what makes her, like, you know, tick? And Peaches, she's like, more than just like, a model and a journalist but, like, has intellectual interests too, like, she's interested in the Hadron collider and it's like, under the earth in Texas and, like, it's for making black holes in space and , like, I watched this last night and I was, like, thinking like, why am I, like, watching this, it's, like, you know, lifes too short like, so, like

Like, I wish

Maureen and I went and saw The Education, a coming of age film from England. The film was good and the music worked well in the film but while I have the soundtrack I've not listened to it yet away from the film.
Thomas

Thought it sounded like an interesting film when I read a review at the weekend. Might go and see it myself.

Watched Public Enemies last night, good film, great score. My only quibble is that Johnny Depp is just too handsome to play John Dillinger, only a minor quibble though.

Bye bye Blackbird.

It seems a bit convenient if he did, but it sure was moving. I was wondering in that last scene: "What on earth is he going to say that's going to live up to the build-up?" And for me, it lived up all right.

Apparently he did *spoiler* stroll through the headquarters of the task force assigned to find him only days before his death though, and ask the baseball scores *end spoiler*.

So I saw the first episode of "V" tonight. The show looks promising, for sure. I wish they had maintained the ambiguity of the aliens a little longer (their intentions, character, physical aspects, etc.), or who among the main characters are aliens. I think they may have shown their hand too early, but who knows? Maybe I'll soon learn that some things I thought I knew after one episode were wrong.

I heard that it was based on a mini-series, but that's the first I've heard of it. I didn't see whatever came before.

W.

I really enjoyed this. Of course there's little substance to it, but perhaps that befits the man.

What do you mean the worst but also the best ending ever? How do you justify this huge oxymoron?