The Week in Entertainment

Film: Happy Feet. This movie is beautifully done - the animation is gorgeous. Antartica never looked so beautiful. The seals are incredible. I don't quite get the mix of accents amongst the Emperors, from Memphis's Elvis drawl to Noah's Scots (Hugh Jackman and Hugo Weaving, respectively), but the singing and dancing is infectious. The story line a bit darker than most animated movies, with a hopeful ending not, perhaps, entirely rooted in reality - but then, neither is a tap-dancing penguin, right?

DVD: Series 3 of The Irish RM, andThe Island. As I say below, that was a summer movie treatment of a very interesting, even powerful, notion - but Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson make anything worth watching, in my opinion.

TV: Heroes ... Oh, man. I have this awful feeling that Hiro has basically managed to frame himself for Charlie's murder, not to mention poor Ando, hanging around the diner where they'd told the cops they'd never been before, except there's Hiro's picture on the bulletain board from a while back and Hiro's gone... Oh, dear. Veronica Mars - an episode where she was wrong about a lot of people, again - but another really tense, well-done one. Two in a row!

Read: Oooooo, heaven. My copy of Analysing English Grammar by Klammer, Schulz, and Della Volpe arrived. Bliss... Finished The God Delusion, excellent (as always). Dabbled some in Trinities by Aidan Charles, of The Examining Room over at Science Blogs - he's such a lyrical writer, and these short pieces are beautiful. Also read a couple of old Doc Savages ... gosh, aren't they badly written? And I loved Doc announcing that there would be no explosion when atoms were split "because scientists have discovered it takes as much energy to split one as is released when it is split." Ah well... Brave New Fictional Worlds...