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I don't know. Tom Pellereau had one of the worst performances in the history of the show, clung limpet like to the back seat until he had no choice to become PM (and then lost) and still won - and mostly on the basis of something he had already come up with, rather than his business plan. With the changed format it is more difficult to tell. Even so I wouldn't entirely count Rosin out. She made a bad mistake but she also showed some promise.

A painful episode; I hate it when the worse team wins. Maybe it's because I'm a fellow Dub but I admire Rosin for resisting the urge to strangle Lord Sugar after he mispronounced her name several hundred times.

Absolutely. I confess I don't get wearable technology at all. I'm also surpised no one pointed out the solar panel shoulder pads are only usuable by women with short to medium hair. Even as Sarah was modelling the jacket her hair was covering the panels more often than not.

I saw Best Night Ever last night and thought it was... not bad actually. Definitely not a great movie and not even the funniest movie I've seen this summer but better than I expected given it was written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (who gave us such 'classics' as Date Movie and Epic Movie.) For those who haven't seen it the film is about a bachelorette trip to Las Vegas. It is not a spoof (ie. it isn't 'Vegas Movie') but a relatively low key comedy with a proper narrative and characters and everything. Too many gross out jokes for me and it was clearly trying too hard to be an all female version of The Hangover but again not bad and the leads are suprisingly likable.

I think Julianne Moore, though absurdly beautiful and likable on screen (and apparently an unaging vampiress) has a very limited range.

I think the thing that ruined the ending for me was the reaction of the kids. We got no sense of their attatchment to their mother. I get that it has been six years since Tracy died and I get that they (for some reason) love Aunt Robin, but they don't seem emotionally affected at all by Ted's story of the death of their mother and his obvious grief. A line or two like "we miss Mom too, Dad but she'd want you to be happy" would have added so much to that scene. I really think when the kids reactions were filmed there was no intention to cast the mother, except maybe literally as a last scene extra. But since we got to know her as a person it came across as a lot more callous than intended.

I don't think she was spiteful, just determined to make Tony fall for her. In an episode I caught today Jeannie lost her memory after getting a bump on her head. She had her head x-rayed and the only thing the x-ray found was the the diploma hanging on the wall on the other side of the head (Roger: "Well... she must have had a photographic memory and had just seen that diploma...") Trying to decide whether the joke is just that genies can't appear on normal film or if her head is literally empty. Very hard to make out the x-ray because Dr. Bellows is waving it around, but you definitely a round shape that looks like a skull so I'm going with the second option. it would certainly explain some things, LOL.

A Supergirl fan here and I will say her Red Lantern stage hasn't been quite as bad as I feared and the Red Lanterns themselves (of whom I knew nothing) are rather interesting. (Though roll on Kara getting back to normal!)

Superman titles (Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Batman/Superman, Superman, Superman/Wonder Woman) Supergirl titles (Red Lanterns, Supergirl) Catwoman Batgirl World's finest: Huntress and Power Girl Justice League United (because Supergirl is in it - or will be - though I like the title itself so far.) Star Wars: Rebel Heist I'm not thrilled with the direction of much of the DC comics (my favourite of the bunch might be the deliberately retro Adventures of Superman) but I'm not about to drop any of them.

I watched American Graffiti a couple of nights ago and I think that not only was it one of the best films of the 1970s it was the best thing George Lucas ever created. Yes better than Star Wars and Indiana Jones and I love both of those. Graffiti is just solidly entertaining, with a great ensemble cast, some very clever lines and a great soundtrack. It also captures both a time and place (late 50s/early 60s America) and a universal moment (the period just after leaving school and before 'grown up' life begins.) By the way this isn't pure nostalgia - I'm 32 and not even American.

Heh, I'm the opposite - I think she's a good actress (if a little overhyped) but I don't get the praise for her beauty at all. Maybe I'm I do think she is too young for some of the roles she plays - even in Silver Linings Playbook her character really should have been played by an actress in her early thirties rather than early twenties.

I think that the age of the love interests in his films is largerly due to the fact that that they are almost invariably mothers with children old enough to talk but not so old as to be teenagers so the actresses can't be twenty somethings. I think its because he loves to play father figures. (Not that this takes away from casting older women of course, just that it has a lot to do with the narrative role women usually have in Sandler films.)

Well "Bewitched" has it's own forum. ;) Besides the series is currently airing in the UK. Definitely. I think it is a large part of why I prefer this show to "Bewitched" (though I liked that too). Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York had some sparks too but their roles didn't leave them as much room to enjoy them. In contrast Barbara and Larry really managed to work the comedy. And yes Dr. Bellows was inifinitely more fun than Mrs. Kravitz, though to be fair had a more important role. Actually come to think of it in narrative terms he might have been more a counterpart of Endora as a foil for our main duo.

I think I'm the only straight guy who doesn't find Jennifer Aniston sexy and never did - I always thought Courtney Cox was far sexier on "Friends". Nor do I find her particularly charismatic.

She'd make a good Batgirl, though she might be too old to play Barbara Gordon at this point. Saoirse Ronan as Kara Zor-El anyone?

I just saw it today, mostly because I'm an Amanda Seyfried fan and will go to anything with her in it (good for her being game about her eyes.) It isn't as good as Ted but I liked it. The Moustache Song is definitely the high point, though my favourite single line was "why are the Indians always so angry?"

Still it is good to see her back in comedy. Definitely - and good for her for not being afraid to poke fun at her Anime character sized eyes (I think she's very attractive personally but those are big eyes...)

That I understand, but it is more the fan reaction (and even the reaction in universe somewhat) that portrays Magneto as some sort of worthy opponent antagonist who plays fair and has lines he won't cross. He doesn't - he regularly uses innocents as pawns and throws his own followers under buses. He's trying to save mutants but if a mutant has to die when furthering his schemes too bad. It's not just that he's doing wrong it's that he is also a jerk. That part seems to get lost because he and Charles used to be friends. He is as I've said a complex, interesting villain but the sympathy he gets seems disproportionate.

I found it somewhat problematic in its gender politics which were surprisingly conservative - by giving Maleficent a backstory of beytrayl it really robbed her agency. Instead of becoming evil through her own decisions and flaws (for instance like Michael Corleone) it defined her fall as solely the result of trusting someone too much. That's a little troubling. I think she could easily have been a tragic and quasi sympathetic villainess on her own terms. Also it seems strange that a nominally feminist retelling would take the most capable female characters from the first film - the three good faries - and turn them from comedic but brave and crucially important characters into brainless, quarelsome, bumblers who make everything worse. That said Angelina was terriffic in the role.

I don't understand why everyone sympathises with Magneto in the X-Men films (note I mean films not the original comics.) Even if you sympahise with his views he's still a genocidal prick. In the first film he kidnapped a teenage girl and was trying to use her in a process that would almost certainly kill her. In X2 he literally tried to kill every human in the world. In X-Men: Last Stand he callously abandoned a powerless Mystique after she took a bullet for him - no matter she was the most loyal of his followers, since she was no longer a mutant she was completely disposable. Not to mention he doesn't even treat individual mutants well (as against 'mutants' as a species). Remember his "that's why the pawns go first" line (while calmly watching waves of his followers being shot down as cannon fodder.) And in X-Men Day of Future Present: Yes Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbander give him a lot of depth but still, he's not a nice guy.

I guess I'll start the ball rolling! While I've seen a few episodes of I Dream of Jeannie over the years I only really got into the shw recently as UK Gold has begun repeating the entire series from the beginning, twice daily no less. I started watching mostly because I'm a great fan of Larry Hagman from his role on Dallas but I quickly fell in love with the show which is IMO more fun than Bewitched and arguably has aged better. To begin with what are people's favourite episodes?

Going back to the Disney princesses a while back I think Ariel was a much more interesting character than the highly overrated Belle and despite being half fish felt much more realistic than the blandly flawless bookworm (and I say this as a bookworm myself.) The plot of The Little Mermaid is entirely driven by Ariel's actions too and while she made a lot of mistakes that felt more emotionally honest, especially for a teen. Also she rescued her love interest. I don't find Andrew Garfield remotely convincing as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man films. He comes across as an irritating hipster and can't really play 'smart' convincingly which is important if you are playing a genius. His Spider-Man on the other hand is good but whenever he is outside the costume he doesn't work. In contrast I think Tobey Maguire played only a pretty good Spider-Man but a great Peter Parker.

There is no easy answer to that question (seriously JR got shot on at least four different occasions by my count, which is more than most leads in cop shows!) Having seen the earliest episodes of the original show a while back I think the appeal of JR had a lot to do with Larry Hagman who took kind of a thinly drawn character and gave him a lot of life. Larry was a charisma blizzard, he could play smart and meanicing very well and he had great chemistry with everyone else onscreen. The other thing is that (as Larry proved on I Dream of Jeannie) he had great comic timing. JR wouldn't be nearly as much fun to watch without his insuults and quips.

I think Amanda Seyfried might see her career start to improve a little now that she is back to doing what she does best: comedy and romance. Okay her role in A Million Ways to Die in the West is only supporting but it has to be better than a truly thankless role like Cosette.

I'm slowly rewatching the show via Netflix and have reached this episode. It is definitely dumb but some parts of it are pretty fun. Dr. Gregory is the first really sympathetic character we see killed even if he wasn't around long and his Buffy 'has a first class mind' thing was sweet if clunky. I wish they'd kept Blayne around as a reccurrer; he seemed like a male counterpart to early Cordelia and could have been an interesting character to run with.