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09 / 09 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Japan will be delayed - expect to see them around Wednesday-ish.

30 / 08 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The scores from Spa have been updated to reflect Alguersuari's 3-place penalty.

29 / 08 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the thirteenth race in Belgium are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Monza in two weeks on 12th September.

22 / 08 / 2010
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01 / 08 / 2010
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01 / 08 / 2010
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25 / 07 / 2010
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11 / 07 / 2010
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11 / 07 / 2010
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27 / 06 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the ninth race in Valencia are in, including the penalties for the naughty boys driving too fast. Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Silverstone on 11th July.

13 / 06 / 2010
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30 / 05 / 2010
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30 / 05 / 2010
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16 / 05 / 2010
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16 / 05 / 2010
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10 / 05 / 2010
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10 / 05 / 2010
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19 / 04 / 2010
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18 / 04 / 2010
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06 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The JWRC driver lineup has been released, so you can make your selection before teams are frozen for Turkey on the night of 15th April. If you don't pick anyone, you'll get Aaron Burkart by default.

05 / 04 / 2010
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03 / 04 / 2010
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29 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the second race in Melbourne are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Malaysia THIS WEEKEND on 4th April.

14 / 03 / 2010
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09 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1! Yes, there's a brand new Fantasy Formula One game! Check the rules or enter your team by Friday night to qualify for the first race in Bahrain!

08 / 03 / 2010
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17 / 02 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The points awarded for a win have changed in the real WRC, so we've reflected the changes in our scoring too. Check the rules to see the details. Next rally is Mexico on 5th March, teams will be frozen at midnight on the night of Thursday 4th March.

16 / 02 / 2010
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31 / 01 / 2010
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25 / 10 / 2009
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02 / 08 / 2009
Reviews: Sorry, there won't be any more movie reviews for the foreseeable future. Events have overtaken me. Catch up on reviews you may have missed.

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Fantastic Four

Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon. Directed by Tim Story. Story: Superheroes in a convenient four-pack. Running Time: 1hr 46 minutes. Certificate PG.

I love superhero movies. They seem somehow inspirational with their be-all-you-can-be message and it's childishly fun to imagine what it would be like to have special powers. Fantastic Four delivers on all counts with no less than four new superheroes discovering their talents in an irreverent and big budget way. Bring it on.

Adapted from the Marvel comic, Fantastic Four features Ioan Gruffudd (King Arthur), Jessica Alba (Sin City), Chris Evans (Not Another Teen Movie) and Michael Chiklis (The Shield) becoming Mr Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch and The Thing respectively in their fight against baddie Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck). With a name like Dr van Doom, he was never going to become a monk, was he? Ioan Gruffudd shows his star quality and Jessica Alba confirms that she's employed for her looks. Most watchable is Chris Evans - not the ginger tosser from TV - largely thanks to some particularly funny lines and scenes that had me laughing out loud. I wasn't expecting that at all - some high quality comedy works wonders in getting the viewer on side. Because it kept me chuckling, I was more than happy to buy into the daft plot without questioning and neither the predictability nor the reliance on special effects bothered me one jot. I enjoyed the humanistic story, the infighting between the newly super team and the pleasing level of energy. In all honesty, it's pretty corny, but I didn't care because it made me laugh. Call me shallow if you like, but it works for me.

Fantastic Four is empty, crowd-pleasing fun. It makes no attempt to do anything new with the genre, but it's made professionally and with a touch of mischief so it's thoroughly enjoyable. Connoisseurs may criticise its lack of innovation, but you don't criticise a rump steak for being just a bit of a cow's arse. I loved it.

I enjoyed this film: 5/5

I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: 4/5

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 2/5 Your usual feast of cracking special effects.

To enjoy this film you should: value humour over freshness.

Your comments

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It's Globbering time as The Thing would say in the comics that I grew up with and thankfully it gets said in the film as well (twice)

This film had no right to be as good as it was, but it's in the same vein as all the other Marvel comic movies (with the exception of the latest BatMan). We have Mr Fantastic (Gruffudd), The Human Tourch (Evans) and the Thing (Chicklis) without forgetting Invisible Girl (Alba) – why could this not be a 15 and her invisible powers fail at the right moment!! The story is broke scientist goes to billionaire for loan of space station, big accident, mutations, lots of CGI, some funny (and stupid) lines hero's beat baddy (almost) time for a sequel, bit of emotions for good measure the end!!

Don't get me wrong I loved the movie and the special effects but don't expect more than a shallow story and for gods sake leave the adult at home and don't ask questions, if you do this you'll love it if you don't you'll hate it and want to destroy those beloved comics you enjoyed so much as a kid. I hope they do a sequel cause in my mind it going to be better in the same way as Spider-Man 2 and X-Men 2.

Mike G