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Went to see this last night and just really super enjoyed myself. It stops just short of being a great movie but I've not had quite as much fun sitting in a cinema for ages. It absolutely does deliver on it's "Anime come to life" promise, incorporating a number of recognisable tropes and themes with genuine affection. The general design on everything and the robots in particular are bold, clear and interesting. When something big goes stomping across the screen you do get a real sense of something with genuine size & weight. The dialogue is curiously forced in places but the lead trio of characters are well performed with an especially captivating Idris Elba anchoring the whole movie. I really hope Pacific Rim does well, he's the beating heart of it and deserves to become a huge international star already. All in all it's a bit goofy and couldn't quite seem to decide if it wanted to be disposable fodder or something with much more depth but it's a movie with real heart that consistently impresses & entertains for it's 2 and a bit hours. Go and have a good time. Also, Idris Elba has one the best moustaches in cinema history. Even better then Apone's from Aliens. I paid £9-something and the moustache alone justified all of it.

Here's Tumblr's favourite movie for next summer. Super looking forward to it, the original was very pleasant surprise for me.

What's great about that is normally that might be disrespectful but in this case the man himself would have approved.

They put together a great video of "off-camera" Ryan moments - shows just how little space there was between the man and the on-screen persona.

I just got back from work, browsed to the GB website and my heart promptly fell into my shoe. What a huge huge loss to the entire gaming community not to mention being only 34 and just married. We've lost one of the truest and distinct voices out there. He will be missed sorely.

The story of one man's bloated yet fragile ego and online dating. Note that the whole thing unfurls in less than 10 minutes.

Thanks for saying that, didn't realise it was one sale. £15 for a digital copy, not too shabby. Not able to download right now but at least it'll be there when I want it.

Don't ask me why but leaving Out Of Time by R.E.M. playing in the background makes for some curiously atmospheric tennis. Superb 5th set this. "It's crazy what you could have had, crazy what you could have had, I need this, I neeeeed thiiiiiis" "Game Djocovic"

That reminds me of the Civ II game one player continued playing (on and off) for a full ten years. The result was a 1984-esque perpetual stalemate between 3 remaining factions (Celts, Vikings, and Americans) trapped in a ceaselessly repeating state of nuclear apocalypse.

Yay, happy birthday guys! This place wouldn't be up to snuff without you. =)

I think Pirelli has gotten an unfair rap out of this year - they built tyres precisely to the spec they were given and everyone blames them for how it's affected the racing. They tried to change the tyres to prevent specifically failures like the one at Silverstone from happening and were blocked from doing so. Not to mention the hoo-hah around the Mercedes test and the lack of other testing available to solve any issues. After this season I'd be amazed if any named tyre brand would want to come within a mile of an F1 contract.

It's a superb looking game. Still, you can go to almost any youtube video of Last Of Us and find someone complaining it looks like shit. Basically E3 happened and now people want their hyper detailed water n' explosion physx. It just shows how fast some people can become jaded.

This was a brilliant race (despite the tyre failures) - the very best came out of absolutely everybody. Absolutely gutted about Lewis' tyre failure but he did excellently to get back into fourth, just a few feet away from 3rd. Nico did get lucky but another deserved win and it was really nice seeing Webber rediscover his confidence. Great racing all over the place.

There's only one way to find out!

Superb. Do you know when you'll play those?

I notice it was the Sun's front page this morning. It's a pure distraction story - get people talking about something superficial while the actual damage in the spending review goes unnoticed. I might wager the picture's release was a wholly calculated action.

I saw a little bit of Dustin Brown today, really like him, a real whip-hand player. Sad Hewitt is out already though, he's always worked his butt off for every point.

Now now, even Wonder Woman has to get her leotard re-fitted every one in a while.

I have bought Civ V and may consider purchasing this expansion before I start actually playing, it actually has a lot of options in it I would like to utilise. It's definitely a bit pricey though, and it's throwing more content onto an already prodigious mountain I am unlikely to fully scale. I'll think on it.

I sat and watched @martinist play this for the best part of 3 hours today. It was actually like watching a well-written action TV show. If HBO put this stuff out alongside Game of Thrones critics and TV fans would be lauding it as a golden age of television.

I did something sort of similar and started a scrapbook a few weeks ago. I remembered I'd enjoyed it as a kid and I felt like I needed some evidence of my own existence. Just one of those cheap ones from WHSmiths. I've only filled 3/4 pages but there's something comforting about it. Cinema tickets, train tickets, thoughts, dreams I've had, quotes & pictures I cut out of magazines, sketches, anything. Having no pressure to only have "good" or "bad" or "interesting" things in it means I feel good just chucking whatever I want in. And then you read it a month later and you can see your own mind and recent history just all sitting there as honestly as possible. It helps give me a sense of myself.

James Gandolfini, most famously the star of the brilliant HBO show The Sopranos, has died at age 51. He was on holiday in Italy when he suffered a suspected heart attack and died. What a hideous loss of a superb actor. RIP. And lest we forget, his brilliant turn in In The Loop:

I'll bet everyone here a bottle of scotch that both Sony & MS will have all but totally throttled boxed retail sales of anything by the end of this coming gen. Probably Nintendo too.

Murray Walker has cancer.