CHAMPIONS

Well done to the boys on securing a 1oth Premier League crown yesterday. It's been a great season with some really tense moments (including yesterday for a while) but finally we can all celebrate a fantastic achievment by Sir Alex and everyone at the club.

Partners in crime

The Doctor returns....
Last night saw the return to our screens of Doctor Who series 4 or to us oldies season 30.
Episode one of this series entitled "Partners in crime" saw the return to the series of Donna Noble ably played by Catherine Tate.

After leaving the Doctor to travel on alone at the end of the Runaway Bride, Donna has spent most of her time searching for the Doctor, investigating one strange occurrence after another until she start to investigate strange goings on at Adipose Industries. Their she discovers the sinister Miss Foster (Sarah Lancashire) and is reunited with the Doctor (David Tennant).

A seemingly simple miracle fat cure pill turns out to be something far more other worldly with the discarded fat cells becoming "the Adipose", alien children being looked after by intergalactic nanny Foster.

In main the episode was more of a re-introduction to the character of Donna but nonetheless was nicely handled, in particular the scene where Donna and the Doctor first get reacquainted via some smartly shot mime. The sudden reappearance of Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) was a brilliantly unexpected move, as I for one did not expect to see her till later in the series.

We now look forward to the continuing adventures of our favourite Timelord....
Welcome back Doctor, we missed you.

Earthquake....in Lincolnshire?

Blimey, was woken by the Earthquake at 1:00am this morning. My first thought was alien invasion as we don't normally have earthquakes in merry ole England but yes it was definitely a tremor. Watching the news this morning, the epicentre was in Market Rasen which is only 15 miles away and it measured a whopping 5.2 on the Richter scale which for us is quite a biggy.
The only damage I can report is that my collection of Doctor Who figures all fell from their relevant positions on the shelf.

All figures safely accounted for and no damage to the TARDIS, sturdy ship that one.

Jumper

After seeing a trailer for this movie a few weeks ago I decided to check it out without reading any reviews and again I'm glad I did.
This film appears to have caused a problem for some regarding the amount of unanswered questions remaining when the end credits roll but from what I could deduce, these people probably have no concept of the multiple movie story arc scenario.

This looked to all intents and purposes like part one of something, yes the story was left open but this is now a common factor in a lot of films nowadays with doors always left open for potential sequels.

Anyway enough "jumping" to the end of this story (apologies for the weak pun), our story starts in a common everyday American high school (Ann Arbor in this instance) with your common everyday run of the mill geek who wants the girl but doesn't really know how to go about it.

Queue Hayden Christensen as David Rice who during an attempt to woo long-time love interest Millie (Rachel Bilson), falls through the ice on a frozen lake but ends up teleporting himself to the local library. After realising this is no fluke and a few practice runs to perfect his skills, he goes on a little shopping spree after robbing several banks by Jumping into their vaults.

Unfortunately after 8 years of jumping from place to place he has been noticed and now a group known as the Paladins are on to him. Led by Roland (Samuel L Jackson), the Paladins are Religious fanatics who for centuries have tracked down and killed countless Jumpers believing them to be an abomination against god.

David has also been noticed by Griffin (Jamie Bell), a fellow Jumper who has been fighting back against the Paladins and in particular Roland, hunting them down and killing as many in return as he can.
Will they form an unlikely alliance in an attempt to bring down the Paladins....?
I'll leave that for you to discover yourselves but I would recommend that people ignore the bad reviews and give this movie a chance, the cast are all very good but Jamie Bell in particular steals the film as the wise cracking Griffin.

The Jumps are really well done and the film has a nice pace to it nipping from one exotic location to the next in double quick time. Character development is minimal but I believe this is due more to the fact that this is setting itself up to be part one of something bigger.

If handled correctly, Jumper could make an interesting addition to recent Sci-Fi lore as the concept is very good and the main character have a lot of potential.

Remember....Anywhere is possible.

Felgercarb Rating 8/10

Victory is mine....

After several complaints to both United and eBay....success!

INTERNET auction site eBay last night banned Manchester United fans from selling commemorative Munich disaster scarves — and accused them of “profiting from human tragedy”.

Click on the link in the header for more info.

More sad news....

Sadly yesterday saw the death of actor Roy Scheider.
As a huge fan of Jaws, I am a great admirer of his and will mourn his passing.
His performance in the French Connection was stand out but he will probably be remembered most for playing Chief Brody in Jaws I & II.

Click the link in the title for the announcement article on IMDB.

Manchester Derby - The aftermath

Well....
First of all, a big thank you to all the City fans for their impeccable behaviour during the minutes silence at yesterdays match.
As for the match....probably best forgotten. The best team won on the day, City's players were up for the game and ours were strangely subdued.

After an emotionally charged opening to the game and a heart wrenching minutes silence, the match was a massive let down, although not for our near neighbours whose team took control from minute one and never let go of it, scoring two desicive first half goals to end any hopes a lacklustre United had of gaining some derby day pride.

Before the match it was also disheartening to see the huge queues of people buying multiple copies of the matchday programme leaving many of us dissapointed and empty handed.
On a normal matchday I casually stroll to the my usual vendor and pick up my copy of the United Review quite easily but not yesterday, the world and his wife suddenly required several copies of the programme and were allowed to do so despite the protests of supporters not able to get one.

Now today to rub salt into the wounds, these "so called" United fans are selling the programme and the free commerorative scarves handed out by the club on auction site eBay.
Unfortunately this comes as no suprise really, it's just a shame that these "fans" are allowed to get away with such behaviour.