The Week in Entertainment

Film: La Vie en Rose - simply outstanding. Brilliant singing (of course) and acting - especially Marion Cotillard, who is simply subsumed into Piaf - and a truly engaging style of story telling. I cried several times, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

DVD: some Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Hokey but not bad, really, for what it is.

TV: The Doctor (of course) - and now there is one Time Lord and one Dalek. This won't end well. Also watched the first of ABC's new but unheralded and already doomed (cut from 6 to 4 eps and moved to Saturday night ... late) Masters of Science Fiction. It's a anthology, so difficult to say anything for sure, but this first one was quite watchable (Judy Davis and Sam Waterson will do that for any script) if a bit predictable.

Read: Finished The Makioka Sisters - very good (it's the little things that get you: Teinosuke's letter being described as "five or six feet long"!). Death by Darjeeling and Gunpowder Green, two in a quite acceptable cozy mystery series; the author has a few quirks of style that could be annoying in a serious read, but for a book to knock off in a long commute, no big deal. Watchdogs of Democracy? - pretty damned good.