"Your brother spoke very highly of your Special Forces training."
The President of the USA gets shot and the action is replayed eight different times from eight different perspectives to help you and everyone else work out who did it. IMDB
"Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed, my imagination and my memory."
After a severe stroke in 1995, French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby was left completely paralyzed apart from his left eyelid. Using only a series of blinks he wrote a book about his experiences and his feelings - and this is the film version. IMDB
An article in The Guardian claims that email has become an unproductive addiction for many office workers - over 56% of users spend more than two hours a day in their inbox, while it takes an average of 64 seconds to remember what you were doing after you've checked for new messages. You can read the article here.
8pm: Friday night football and mud wrestling.
10pm: Marple newcomer Steve Stone shows off his pool skills.
3am: Liamo decides to help himself to some more drinks.
Family Guy expert James "danger" Walker emails in with news that a new spin-off series is in the pipeline. It's called The Cleveland Show and it's all about Cleveland.
"I'm Bill Murray, you're everybody else."
Jack Black and Mos Def remake a shelf-load of classic movies and bring their community together at the same time. IMDB
Why would you type "google" into Google? I'm confused. Currently the most popular search term in the UK is "bbc" - read all about it here.
Robert Donat as Richard Hannay in Hitchcock's 1935 film adaptation.
Rupert Penry-Jones, the new Richard Hannay.
Good news from TV land as the BBC have announced they'll be remaking the classic novel The 39 Steps in time for the Christmas holidays. A book that was so good I read it in one day. Rupert Penry-Jones will be taking on the role of Richard Hannay, who has to avoid all kinds of baddies and enemy spies as he flees across the country. Watch out for the man with the missing finger. If you want to read the book, it's available for free online here. The Guardian's article on the new BBC version is here.
"Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted."
Richard Kelly's second film after Donnie Darko is also about time travel, fate, destiny and general weirdness. It's just not as good. Featuring Justin Timberlake as a scarred army veteran singing along to the Killers. IMDB
"You're a tough man to get a hold of, Jeffery."
A no-good trucker steals Kurt Russell's wife so he goes into action man mode to try and get her back. IMDB
"The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive."
Memorable take on the Vietnam War from Stanley Kubrick. IMDB
"The war was the best thing that ever happened to me."
A fairly standard WWII murder mystery film noir shot in the style of 1940s cinema (except that George Clooney didn't exist until 1961). IMDB
* Not really a picnic.
** Didn't get as far as the Cross.
Photo opportunity.
A golf ball's view of Mellor.
Congratulations to the happy couple... little did they know that a few hours later Iain would be breaking furniture at their wedding reception.
"So you think your book is worth a human life?"
The story behind the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas was fashioned into the classic book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. This is one of two recent films about Capote's research into the murders - Toby Jones is the author and Daniel Craig plays one of the killers. IMDB
Behold: car park signs that only make sense when you view them from a certain angle. Click here to see them all.
"I'm glad you taught me to speak so I could say that."
It's no wonder they gave Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar for this - they should give him another one every year for his portrayal of Christy Brown, who became a successful author and painter despite suffering from cerebral palsy. IMDB
Like a lot of videos on this blog, today's mid-week music selection is from R.E.M. - back in 1991, they released their seventh album, called Out of Time. It spent 183 weeks on the British album charts, and this was the 8th track on it. The song was never released as a single, but R.E.M. decided to make a video for it anyway, which eventually appeared on the compilation This Film Is On. It was directed by Jim McKay and the actor is Tom Gilroy. The song also has the distinction of once appearing in Scrubs.
Happy days - watching the Euro 2008 final in the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas on one very big screen.
