Friday 2 October 2009

TV

House
5x05 Lucky Thirteen
5x06 Joy
"Another life saved by girl-on-girl action."

How I Met Your Mother
1x16 Cupcake
1x17 Life Among the Gorillas

Films

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
[#55 in 100 Films in a Year 2009]
Some credit this as being the first ever film noir, but it seems there are numerous exceptions which would cast doubt on such an assertion.

Articles

Frankie Boyle leaves Mock The Week by Mayer Nissim
(from Digital Spy)
Disappointing.

Sutherland: '24 could continue without me' by Mayer Nissim
(from Digital Spy)
Which is what he's been saying since the end of season one. We'll believe it when it happens, Kiefer, and only then.

Worst of the Worst
(from Rotten Tomatoes)
The worst-reviewed films of the '00s (to September 2009, anyway), compiled from Rotten Tomatoes' large pool of critics. I've seen very few of them, fortunately, though that does include the list's #1 film. I won't spoil it if you're intending to read, but it was a surprise to me -- yes, it's undoubtedly a thoroughly awful film, but I'm fairly certain there are many on the list that are much worse.