Awesome movie! I'm so glad I watched it at this point of my life. Thank you ITV.

They've given me a 90-day free trial for Christmas. Best present ever!!!

The Independent got together with LoveFilm, Britain's biggest online film rental company, to analyse the DVD renting habits of its 600,000+ UK subscribers and find out if geography determines our taste in movies. An interesting exercise that discovered that outside London (as was the case with almost every category/movie), the most rented movie in Sheffield is The Full Monty where it is set, Hallam Foe is the most rented movie in Edinburgh, but only 0.5% of LoveFilm members in County Durham have ever rented Billy Elliot.

Other insights include Glasgow renting more titles from world cinema outside London, Birmingham renting more Bollywood outside London, This is England (portraying the 1980s skinhead culture - good movie btw!) being popular in East London where the British National Party has won council seats, but not being so popular in Staffordshire, the director's hometown and another area where the BNP has made gains. It was however a popular choice in nearby Nottingham where a lot of the film was shot. Interestingly, more people rented the low-budget 2006 British thriller London to Brighton, in London and Brighton than any other city. And finally, Manchester consistently rents more porn than anywhere but London. Really... why?! Adult films seem to be popular only in the cities.

Good timing with the article. Only last week I opened a free-trial subscription with Blockbuster's online DVD rental service. So far I've watched The Namesake, East is East and Alfie (the Michael Caine version). All three were brilliant and well worth the hour and a half each. This week I've got cult-movie Quadrophenia and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy to watch, while awaiting either If (a 1968 satire of English public school life) or Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari). Make hay while it's free! After the trial is over I'm gonna cancel it and switch to LoveFilm for a month and then decide which one to settle on. I've already got a list of 200+ movies and documentaries I want to watch. At this rate it's going to take a lifetime to get through even a small percentage of them...

This a fucking brilliant and hilarious movie. I can't believe I waited two whole years to watch it.

It's a pretty decent movie.

Black. Alice in Wonderland. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Five Fingers. Ben Johnson. Made in Usa. By The People. When I Am Alone! Pass Pass. Boy Friend. Bus Conductor. Lion. Out of Syllabus. Fast Track. Notebook. Yes Your Honour. Happy. Mr Butler. Miss Mary. Mark Antony. Man of the Match. Magic Magic. Magic Lamp. Love Story. Lottery Ticket. Life is Beautiful. Youth Festival. Welcome to Kodaikanal. War & Love. Wanted. Witness. King Solamon. Vietnam Colony. Vendor Daniel. Uncle Bun. Two Wheeler. The Prince. The President. The Guard. The City. The Car. The Campus. Junior Senior. Junior Mandrake. Joker. Johny Walker. James Bond. Jail. Jackpot. Symphony. House Owner. Hotel High Range. Hitler Brothers. Hitler. In The Name of God. Interview. Inspector. Sunday 7PM. Summer Palace. Summer in Bethlahem. His Highness Abdulla. Highway. Students. Street. Happiness. Spider Man. Speed. Special Squad. Greetings. Gramaphone. God Father. Sketch. Friends. Freedom. Five Star Hospital. Fashion Parade. Sharjah to Sharjah. Share Market. School Master. December. Daisy. Darling Darling. Danger Biscuit. Colourful. Classmates. Chronic Bachelor. Runway. Red Salute. Rain Rain Come Again. Charlie Chaplin. Boeing Boeing. Big B. Police. Pilots. Picnic. Photographer. Phantom. Bamboo Boys. April 19. Alpha. Air Hostess. November Rain. Newspaper Boy. Abraham and Lincoln. 4 The People.

My Dad and I went to watch the latest in a line of British romantic comedies. Unfortunately, as expected the good parts were edited but even then, there was an incredible amount of love-making going on there. At one point I wasn't sure if my dad would've preferred watching The Day After Tomorrow. Luckily he enjoyed the movie, or so he mentioned afterwards.

I quite liked it, even though it seemed to meander along mindlessly for a while. There were a few cheesy lines here and there, but for the most part it was a tasteful amalgmation of the Who's Who in modern British cinema. The only notable missing face perhaps, was Michael Caine. Maybe he's too old to make love, actually?

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It has been a rather good weekend. Two movies on Friday night, City of God and Dirty Pretty Things, McDonalds, crazy photos, Sehwag's double-century, shocking The Romanian's Romanian friend, sleeping odd-hours, talking to J for an hour... Damn Man Acc quiz tomorrow morning. Wish me luck!

This week has been pretty eventful so far. Monday afternoon was made up of a plumber fixing up a pipe in my apartment that had been wreaking havoc in the kitchen directly below mine. The next morning none of the hot water taps were functioning so I had to make do with a 2-second cold water shower. Honestly, it was like walking into an icecube scrubber. No could do. Tuesday was boring till the evening when montrealtess and I attended Reg Alcock's, President of Canada's Treasury Board, talk on modernizing governance and adapting it to the challenges and demands of the 21st century. The chap was cordial and informal but the talk itself was pretty lame.

The next day I walked into my MHR class to find a new chap teaching for the week since my regular prof. is recovering from a gall bladder infection. What a semester she's having. (Earlier she had a swimming accident and paralysed her left arm!) *yikes* That afternoon, Tess and I attended another talk, this time given by the Minister for International Cooperation, Aileen Carroll, on Canadian initiatives being taken in dealing with global health epidemics such as HIV/AIDS and TB. Leacock 232 is quite a room, says I! Inshallah, one day I will also be giving a talk there. *lol*

The 2nd talk was much more informative, very laidback and filled with a fantastic question-answer-period. I'm still not convinced Canada is doing enough but at least there's a start. The failure @ Cancun produced some good dividends later when Brazil and India took the lead, with the help of the WTO but a lot more work remains to be done. Clinton's Fund also seems pretty cool. Oh, and I forgot to mention the movie, cute_kitty and I went to watch on Tuesday night - Butterfly Effect. I don't think she particularly enjoyed the movie but I thought it was rather nice to see Kutcher act serious for once in his life. ;-)

Anyways, I'm not sure how much you guys particularly like reading long monologues and boring details about my life so I shall s.t.o.p. right heeere!

Cheers!