catch up

Not many DVD's worthy of mention recently Tarzan 2 was funny for the kids, Coach Carter was okay but slightly too worthy for my likely, but the documentary on the extras was good. I Heart Huckabees was insane and I still am unsure what my view is. Downfall was interesting but not as good as I had heard, my history degreed wife enjoyed it and spent most of the film explaining various bits of information about the characters that were not covered by the film. Bruno Ganz, playing Hitler was fantastic, although for some reason reminded me of Tony Hancock, which didn't help.

Garden state I liked, and despite it's protestations of coolness and youth appeal it is nowt but a romantic comedy (I will watch it again though). It had some great scenes and looked pretty good. Natalie Portman was excellent but the true star however was zach Braff who wrote, directed and starred in this film. Definately one to recommend, and the soundtrack was pretty good too.

I have been watching newish comedy drama thing on BBC1 called Love Soup. It not original, but it made me laugh. It has some very funny moments and makes for a light entertaining hours viewing. I also kept an eye on More4 the new channel from the people that brought you Hollyoaks. Nothing much appealed to me (other than the long awaited new series of The West Wing), but I did catch the Daily Show, an American news satire that is generally 30 minutes of anti-bush comedy (think Michael Moore with talent and less dodgy facial hair). It was funny, but the single minded approach to it will probably wear a bit thin after a while, so it's probably one to dip into now and again rather than watch every episode. Also saw the first of the double bill Season 6 opener of the West Wing, it regained some of the ground lost in season 5 by injecting some humour that had been sadly lacking.

After a fun week of pitching stories for the doctors surgery sitcom the group are now moving onto outlining. After a little apprehension (that i was the worst writer in the group) I am now getting into this project and am working on my outline. The plan is to mirror the american sitcom style of an A story backed up by and B (and possibly C) story that are linked more by a them than by the plot of the whole episode. I have done this before for a script and it worked quite nicely but it took some doing. It certainly beats the amount of paperwork I have been reading for a School Governors meeting. Still you have to do your bit for the community, nobody else seems to want to (I even missed the charlton fulham game last night to attend the meeting). Apathy is obviously the in-thing (I am just as guilty juding by the lack of updates recently).