sarah jane adventures - oh. nearly forgot about this. new year's day. another doctor who spin off. sarah jane, former assistant, and guest in the recent who series. gets her own series, aimed at kids, as she picks up kid side kicks in the first episode. token k-9 cameo, though they seem to have just written him out of it. i quite enjoyed it, would almost say it was much better than any of the torchwood episodes so far. series coming at some point, though its getting slotted into kids schedule, so probably end up missing it.

Red Dwarf Season VIII

what's happening by series 8, bravus?

A Scanner Darkly - wow. very cool.
Black Dahlia - put me in front of a movie with Josh Hartnett or Scarlett Johansson and I'm happy. And this has both! Plus it was a pretty interesting movie with a twisted story line.

Celebrity Big Brother gets under way. Watching people such as Leo Sayer, Jo from S Club 7 and the director Ken Russell shut up in a house together for a month is going to be one of those guilty pleasures where you know you're undermining the entire fabric of Western civilization just by tuning in.

best,
Chris H

The Machinist (2004) by Brad Anderson.

Christian Bale is a machinist who has not slept in a year. He starts hallucinating (or is he?) and his hooker GF (Jennifer Jason Leigh) helps him out.

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what's happening by series 8, bravus?

Kochanski has joined the crew. We don't know how, 'cos we haven't seen 6 or 7 yet.

Season 2 of Carnivale is finally out on dvd, and disc 1 just showed up today via Netflix. We don't have cable, and a friend loaned us season 1 a few months ago which we watched, mesmerized, straight through over the course of a week of evenings (and then again shortly thereafter). We've already been told that season 2 ends on a bit of an unfinished note, and that the series was then cancelled (!). Oh, well. . .

I just finished that last week, Sloane. While what you say is true, it's stil a very satisfying season.

Now watching the new WIRED magazine program on PBS... Let's see what it's all about.

Hipster type reporters...looks like there is some crossover between articles in the magazine and segments on the show. First segment is on meteorite hunters, which I think I read about in the magazine

little segment related factoids called datapoints at the end of the segments

segment on underwater habitats to space simulation

a hot girl just cut a flatscreen tv in half

All in all a pretty interesting show, though the edge of the magazine is not really there, having been replaced by public televisioniness.

Mozart and the Whale
I loved it. And not just because it (predictably) starred Josh Hartnett. It was an inspiring love story with a cute twist and I loved it. Look it up, it'll be a single title at your local rental store.

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Mozart and the Whale
I loved it. And not just because it (predictably) starred Josh Hartnett. It was an inspiring love story with a cute twist and I loved it. Look it up, it'll be a single title at your local rental store.

I watched most of that the other day and enjoyed it. I didn't get to see the ending tho. I liked the concept and the characters were pretty interesting too.

I just finished the Japanese "Cult hit" Bio Zombie. It wasn't something I would define as good. Couple of cool moments, but not enough to fill an hour and a half.

The Fountain last week. Simply gorgeous.

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The Fountain last week. Simply gorgeous.

i'm going to cry.
hope it opens here soon!
just ordered the sound track - clint mansell composed performed by kronos quartet and mogwai. hope its good. requiem was such a nice piece, listened to that last night.