The Week in Entertainment

DVD: Extras on Torchwood - good commentaries.

TV: 8 Femmes (8 Women) which is unlike anything I've ever seen: a cross between Agatha Christie and the haute-couteur Technicolor extravaganzas of the Fifties - complete with songs, it has a tight plot in which secret after secret and motive after motive come tumbling out of the characters in this stagy but wonderful movie starring 8 brilliant French actresses, each more wonderful than the next, as the saying goes (Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier and Firmine Richard). And then to the other end of the spectrum and The Simpsons Movie which was quite satisfactory. Words and Music - a bit predictable, perhaps, but formula well done is entertaining. And this was well done. And Torchwood - Frabjous day, calloo callay! Yay!

Read: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto - the Perry Bible Fellowship book. Hilarious. Although I had to read the next Nonbelieving Literati choice - Camus's The Plague - I couldn't resist the Isaac Babel collection that arrived and I read two stories in it... but then started The Plague. It's short; I'll be done on time.