The Week in Entertainment

Film: The Visitor. What a wonderful movie. Sad but completely engaging. Very well done - writing, acting, the entire package. Recommended whole-heartedly.

DVD: The Last Detective series 4 - a couple of episodes of it. Still an engaging series.

TV: The Sarah Jane Adventures, enjoyable. Doctor Who - yay! It's back! And Merry Christmas from Russell T. Davies; everybody (nearly) dies. That's nearly everybody, of course, not nearly dies... and I do love the notion that Londoners decided to clear out for Christmas. (Odd, of course, to see 'Richard Bucket' and 'Lionel Hardcastle', but they do excellent jobs.) I watched Solarbabies, which was odd, and I kept wondering who that guy was... Pasdar! It was Adrian Pasdar! Torchwood. Mixed emotions. At least Ianto didn't die. And I had thought Tosh might be leaving - that "give me five years" line from Jack last week (five years ago) seemed like a foreshadowing, though I didn't expect her to die. The death scene between Tosh and Owen was very well done; if people had to die they handled it well... I am wondering if Rose's little error on Jack includes resetting his sanity level every time he comes back.

Read: End in Tears, one of Ruth Rendell's excellent Inspector Wexford novels - this one peripherally involving the "miracle babies" con. Finished Teju Cole's utterly brilliant, lyrical Every Day is for the Thief.