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13 / 05 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the fifth F1 race at Barcelona are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Monaco in two weeks on 27th May - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT on Friday 25th.

30 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Argentina are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The next rally is in Greece and starts on 25th May. Cutoff for edits is midnight GMT on Thursday 24th May.

23 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Jari-Matti Latvala has been injured, so he is being replaced by Dani Sordo for Rally Argentina. If you have Latvala on your team, you'll automatically score for Sordo instead. Cutoff for edits for this weekend's rally is midnight GMT on Thursday 26th April.

22 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the fourth F1 race at Bahrain are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Barcelona in three weeks on 13th May - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT on Friday 11th.

15 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy F1: Now we have a few races under our belt, the weightings have been changed to reflect the early season performances - see the the league page to see what changed.

15 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the third F1 race at China are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is (probably) Bahrain next weekend on 22nd April - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT on Friday 20th.

02 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: The results have been updated to reflect Mikko Hirvonen's exclusion from Rally Portugal.

01 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Portugal are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The next rally is in Argentina and starts on 27th April. Cutoff for edits is midnight GMT on Thursday 26th April.

28 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Last call to pick a WRC Academy driver! Teams will be locked from midnight GMT on Thursday night - if you haven't picked one by then, you'll get Christopher Duplessis by default.

25 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the second F1 race at Malaysia are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is China in 3 weeks on 15th April - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT on Friday 13th.

18 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the first F1 race at Australia are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Malaysia this coming weekend - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT Friday.

15 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy F1: LAST DAY! Teams entered after midnight GMT tonight won't count for Melbourne - this is your last chance!

13 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Mexico are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The next rally is in Portugal and starts on 29th March. Remember to pick your Academy driver before then! Anyone who doesn't pick an Academy driver will by default get the first guy on the list - Christopher Duplessis.

05 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy F1: It's here! The 2012 Fantasy F1 championship is open for entries! Read the rules or dive straight in and Pick your team. You can change your mind as often as you like until midnight GMT on Thursday 15th March when teams will be frozen for the first race.

23 / 02 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: The Mexico entry list has arrived and is available on the rally page.

14 / 02 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Due to Mini's recent hoo-ha, if you have Mini as your WRC team, you will score for the Mini Portugal team instead (currently Araujo/Nobre) from Mexico onwards.

13 / 02 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Teams are open for editing again, though the entry list for Mexico isn't yet available.

12 / 02 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Sweden are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The next rally is in Mexico and starts on 8th March. Teams will reopen for editing on Monday.

23 / 01 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Teams are now open for editing again. Ogier and Mikkelsen are entered into Sweden in S2000 cars, but they're not eligible for the SWRC championship. You can choose them as WRC drivers for Sweden if you want.

22 / 01 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from the Monte are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The second rally is in Sweden and starts on 9th Feb. Teams will be frozen at midnight GMT on the night of Thursday 9th Feb.

18 / 01 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Rally teams are now frozen for the Monte. You can still pick a team and it will start scoring from Sweden on 9th Feb.

11 / 01 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: The 2012 Fantasy Rally season is now open for entries! Read the rules or dive straight in and pick a team. You can change your team as often as you like so you may as well create one now in case you forget later. Cutoff for the first race in Monte Carlo is midnight GMT on the night of TUESDAY 17th January.

27 / 11 / 2011
Fantasy F1: The results from the final F1 race at Brazil are in and the championship has been decided! Check the results or see how your team did. First race of 2012 is Australia on 18th March. Entries for the new season will open a week or two before that date.

14 / 11 / 2011
Fantasy Rally: Shock rally drama! Martin Semerad was excluded from the PWRC, so our results change too, which gives us a new champion! Check the results or see how your team did.

13 / 11 / 2011
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally GB are in and the season is over! Check the results or see how your team did. The 2012 season will be open for entries in early 2012 in time for Monte Carlo on 17th January.

Deck the Halls

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Danny de Vito, Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth, Alia Shawkat. Directed by John Whitesell. Story: Two neighbours feud about Christmas lights and in the process learn the meaning of *BLEURGH* ... sorry, just threw up a bit there. Running Time: 1hr 32 minutes. UK Certificate PG.

Lord save me from Christmas movies. Deck the Halls has stinker written all over it, from conception to overpriced popcorn. A Christmas lights feud between neighbours is the kind of awful idea that would need someone like the Coen brothers to pull it off - however, Deck the Halls was entrusted to the monkey who previously infected our lives with Big Momma's House 2. Somebody stoke the furnace, it's roasting time.

Can anyone remember a decent Matthew Broderick movie since Ferris Bueller's Day Off? The Producers was one of the worst movies of the year and I can scarcely believe that his career has actually gone downhill from there. Following all the tritest formulas and successfully avoiding anything close to quality movie-making, Deck the Halls epitomises all that sucks about the consumerist excesses of Christmas. What makes it worse is that pretty much everyone in the movie used to have some degree of coolness. Everyone knows Broderick from Ferris Bueller, Danny de Vito scored points for Get Shorty and Throw Momma From the Train, Kristin Davis was in the chic Sex and the City and even the kid - Alia Shawkat - had already been dipped in Arrested Development's kudos before suffering this contagion. They're all unclean now.

I really want to find something good about this movie, simply because I was expecting it to be so dire from the outset that I feel I should compensate. Try as I might though, I can't. The story's shit, the direction's shit, the editing's shit and the "action" sequences are the worst I have ever seen. Period. The kindest thing I can think to say is that the script has a couple of lines that could be described as acceptable, if you're feeling generous. The idea of paying to see this herpes is quite a revolting thought - Christ, even Santa Clause 3 looks good next to this. However, as with all movies like this, there are some viewers who will inexplicably love it - and if you're the kind of person who hangs tinsel on your cat, you may well find it worth your perusal. God, I feel dirty for saying that.

Deck the Halls is spectacularly awful in every respect. It's as if Hollywood has a competition for the worst family Christmas movie - this one's in the lead so far and I sure hope it wins.

I enjoyed this film: 0/5

I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: 1/5

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 0/5 - you might be tempted to start a fire just to get out of the cinema.

To enjoy this film you should be: inexorably drawn to crap Christmas movies.

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Come on Jim, stop holding back and tell us what you really think. Did you like the film or not? ! ?
Ian R, Newbury