So, what have you seen lately? At the cinema, on DVD, on TV, whatever.

Cinema: There Will Be Blood
DVD: The Grapes of Wrath
TV: Mad Men

The first two were excellent. The last one is starting to lose it's fizzle.

I loved the first episode of 'Mad Men' but there seemed to be a massive drop-off in quality in the second, I still have high hopes for it though and much catch up on 3 & 4 soon.

I saw There Will Be Blood last Friday. It was so good that I have decided that I want to become an oil prospector - not so that I can get rich and live in a big house with a bowling alley, but so that I can earn just enough money to allow me to quit my job and spend the rest of my days watching There Will Be Blood over and over again.

I also watched Die Hard 4.0 on DVD, which was a couple of hours of mindless fun, as you would expect. In fact, it was the perfect film to watch over Easter, as I had eaten so much chocolate that my blood took on the consistency of treacle and having to think about a film might have caused my heart to explode.

Garage Totally excellent. A proper film.

Semi-Pro I really liked this. Will Ferrell is aces. It's almost good enough to be the Slap Shot of basketball.

The Ruins This is silly, gory, predictable and a bit nasty.

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay This is just silly.

Angel Not the new Ozon, an old thing with Stephen Rea and Ray McAnally. I dodn't understand it.

Catch me if you Can What a great story. I hate Tom Hanks, but even so, this was enjoyable.

Arranged Arranged marriages for Jewish and Indian girls in New York. They can work out well!

An adaptation of Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle which I forget the name of, and haven't finished, but it looks pretty good so far.

I'm going to see Juno tonight. Can't hardly wait.

People keep talking about Mad Men. I've got the series here but have been avoiding it. I must assign myself a couple to see what the fuss is about.

Reaper. Enjoyable way to pass an hour. Imagine Buffy played by Jack Black.

Shoot Em Up. Ridiculous. My mum loves this film; I think Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti need to fire their agents. A soulless, pointless clone of Sin City without any style to redeem it.

Blast From The Past. Better than I expected from a film starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone. Harmless time-waster.

DVD: Cowboy Bebop, the movie. Like the TV series, but shorter

TV: Just finished my Angel marathon, now I'm going through season 3 of Arrested Development and Robot Chicken.

I've only seen one Robot Chicken thing and that was a Star Wars thing and it was genuinely hilarious. I didn't even realise it was a series type thing.

30 Rock

Not that much else at the moment, since we've finished most of the shows.

I just wish Battlestar Galactica would arrive from netflix already though. "Very long wait" my ass.

Got through the 6 available episodes of The Big Bang Theory.

Since the start of March I've watched series 5,6,7 and I'm on 8 of South Park. I used to love it when it first came out, then lost track, it's been great catching up.

Watched I now pronounce you Chuck & Larry which was very funny, and much much better than I expected.

Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares in the US has been very entertaining, although sometimes a bit hard to follow. It's alot more verbal, but alot kinder to the stupid restaurant owners.

The new series of Two and a half men is still keeping me amused.

I've only seen one episode of The Big Bang Theory and it was stunningly disappointing. So very old school, so very telegraphed.

Ooh, I can't wait to see the new Harold & Kumar, lyra. I don't want any spoilers, but can you tell me: is Neil Patrick Harris in it again? He's on one of the posters, but I just want to be sure.

The American version of Kitchen Nightmares bored me very quickly--too much Fox hype, an embarrassing opening credits sequence, and a lot of the situations seemed obviously scripted to me.

I'm really glad that Paradise Hotel 2 has gotten good. Not near the best moments of the first one, but still entertaining.

I am gradually working my way thru season 1 of "Battlestar Galactica". Very Johnny-come-lately so unable to even read the old thread, in case of spoliers.

I am a "Lost" devotee (still) but apart from that all I've watched on telly this week was the "Mastermind" final. Felt sorry for the bloke who came a close 2nd, who appeared to live with his Mum.

"There Will Be Blood" last really decent film at flicks. "Vantage Point" would've been an entertaining way to spend 2 hours, if the trailer hadn't ruined it, oh and I saw "Bank Job" on a whim yesterday on the way home from work. I thought it was well enough made, though the plot suffered from revealing too early who/what/why, rather than perhaps springing it on us (and them) later.

On dvd/at our Cineclub, I've recently seen Preminger's "Bunny Lake is Missing" which is a very nice, darkly comic satire about swinging London and Renoir's "Le crime de M. Lange", which is one of my all-time faves. At home on dvd I watched "Clockers" at the weekend. Not as good as I remembered, perhaps cos i was remembering Richard Price's novel, rather then Spike Lee's joint.

Apologies: I note the bold function let me down there

Film
'Michael Clayton'. Enjoyed it very much. Tilda Swinton really is brilliant in it.

TV (Cable)
'Lovespring International'. Silly and fun.