The Week in Entertainment

Film: Paris. I have never seen a bad movie with Juliette Binoche, and this one is no exception. A kaleidoscopic love-letter to a city, filled with brilliant performances and a bittersweet story, or set of stories, this was a wonderful movie. Just wonderful.

DVD: Some Hetty Wainthropp.

TV: House... Foreman wants House's job. Again. Just hearing that made me weary. He is no good at being in charge of that department, as he has proved over and over again. But the episode wasn't bad. House and Wilson cooking balls... juvenile, yes, but funny. However, I have to say that Princeton Plainsboro has the crappiest security staff in the world. A guy wanders out in his hospital gown, sweating and staggering and eventually stealing milkshakes from a nurse to throw them at a doctor ... and nobody turns a hair. Geeze, no wonder they put up with House for so long! Flash Forward: I guess it's because they're cops, but why "Suspect" Zero? He didn't look to me like he was "without a care in the world" - he looked nervous, like he was looking around in panic. I guess we'll see. The stuff about the phone calls that came out at the end is a bit suspect, I admit. The Mentalist - so, using Jane is starting to impact Lisbon's career? (Not that she's as bad as Cho...) That'll be interesting. As will their collective refusal to understand precisely how focused on Red John he actually is - even though he told them. Stargate Universe - okay. I'll watch next week. But they have signally failed to make me like any of the characters. Numb3rs - I do like the way this show explores Don's ambivalence about his job. And when Larry left "all to son" - sniff.

Read: Finished Godless. A Peter Robinson anthology, The Price of Love, which had some Ala Banks novellas and short stories but also some rather atypical shorts. Then All the Colors of Darkness, the latest Banks. Very good (though In A Dry Season is still the very best one). Sand Sharks by Margaret Maron; I liked Deborah Knott better when she wasn't carrying on about her stepson and her marriage... but the books are still interesting. Started Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote (which I must admit to never having actually read). So far, it's funny.