The Week in Entertainment

a bit late, but better late than never, isn't it?

Film: "El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)". Wow. Just wow. I'm nearly speechless. This is one stunning, brilliant film. Not for children although it is a fairy tale. There is nothing in the other world as scary as Vilar, though. (Warning: it's as violent as it is brilliant.)

DVD: Pinky and the Brain! Yes, Pinky and the Brain! One is a genius, the other's insane. They're laboratory mice, their genes have been spliced: they're dinky, they're Pinky and the Brain (Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain!) Before the night is done their plan will be unfurled: by the dawning of the sun, they'll take over the world! They're Pinky and the Brain, yes, Pinky and the Brain. Their twilight campaign is easy to explain: to prove their mousey worth, they'll overthrow the earth. They're dinky - they're Pinky and the Brain (Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain NARF!) (And the sad part is, I remembered all the words before they played it...)

TV: All the standards - Heroes (George Takei is cool, but this was stunt casting at its finest); Veronica Mars (and once again, Logan Echolls breaks my heart); Scrubs (I can't wait to catch the beginning of this season in reruns); some Poirot and Midsomer, and of course The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

Read: Failed Crusade - an excellent appraisal of the US's totally screwed Russian policy in the 1990s - and the worse lies we told ourselves about how it was going.