The Week in Entertainment

DVD: The rest of Mr Moto. For what they were they were very enjoyable. Gotta say Lorre did a fine job. Out of curiosity I picked up the Mr Wong movies, which I had never even heard of: Boris Karloff in the title role... They're pretty good mystery movies, but Karloff was a bizarre choice. He's fine (of course) but still. How odd, and sad, that the prevailing time wouldn't let a fine actor like, say, Philip Ahn have a role like this. Reminds me of the decision not to cast Bruce Lee in Kung Fu...

TV: House... maybe he's not quite totally stable? And neither is anybody else on this show! Whee! FlashForward - not an interesting episode - and considering that it ended with everybody under attack, exploding cars, and such, that's not a good sign. I'll give it one more. Modern Family - I love the dialog. Phil is forcing Gloria and Claire to talk about their relationship. Gloria says she feels like Claire doesn't like her. "Wow," says Phil, "powerful, powerful stuff. Claire, tell us how that makes you feel." Claire glares at him and begins, "Right now I'm feeling a lot of anger-" "Don't tell me, tell her," says Phil. "OK. Gloria, right now I'm really angry at Phil." Numb3rs - This director is annoying. I posted on it, so here I'll just say, he's really annoying. Otherwise, the story was good and the ending very effective, though if I'm going to praise the writing I do have to ask: why couldn't one of the guys be the one who lost a baby, just for a change? CFL Football!!! Yes, I discovered that CSN/TCN shows them, and so I got to watch the Ti-Cats save their playoff hopes, and my Als get their butts kicked by Winnipeg 41-24, their first East loss this year, so a mixed-emotion discovery.

Read: Finished Don Quixote, excellent (of course). Skullduggery by Aaron Elkins - once again I figured out much but not all of the mystery. Even Money by Dick & Felix Francis, not bad. Evidence by Jonathan Kellerman, which was a good entry in the series, better than the last couple in fact. A Face in the Window by Sarah Graves, a pretty good entry - better than some of the recent ones, if a bit forced. Bringing Jake's father back wasn't necessarily the best idea Graves ever had...