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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.

I Want Candy

Cast: Tom Riley, Tom Burke, Carmen Electra, Michelle Ryan, Mackenzie Crook, Eddie Marsan, Jimmy Carr, Philip Jackson, Felicity Montagu. Directed by Stephen Surjik, written by Peter Hewitt and Phil Hughes. Story: Media students make porn. Running Time: 1hr 30 minutes. UK Certificate 15.

I Want Candy - a British comedy about sex. We love those don't we? This one, however, just doesn't have enough balls and so doesn't live up to the genre.

Carmen Electra's been everywhere on TV this month, in a desperate attempt to drag some punters in. Fortunately, because she's not very good, she doesn't actually appear very much in I Want Candy, despite playing the titular porn star Candy Fiveways. Instead we concentrate on the far more watchable duo of Tom Riley and Tom Burke, a pair of media students who, through a series of not-very-interesting plot details, find themselves making a porn movie. Both these actors are new to me, but they really are excellent in a likeable-Brit-scallywag kind of way. The charisma of these two, particularly Riley, is what holds the movie together amongst a sea of nearly funny moments. It's titters, not guffaws, that permeate Candy, rather like that other pappy porn-movie-movie, The Girl Next Door.

For some reason, Sex Lives of the Potato-Men was panned by the critics, but I loved it and so did most people I know who've seen it. It worked because it had the gonads to be audaciously lewd, in a way that the Carry Ons were at the time - at least they were to me, but I was young and impressionable then. I Want Candy isn't - you wouldn't want your five year old to see it, but there's nothing particularly naughty going on - the innuendo is very reserved and the obligatory yuk moment is a half-arsed bolt of jism in the face, which struck me as particularly uninventive. Couple that with the fact that the only nudity is a bloke's arse and you really start to wonder where they were aiming. It's not nearly funny enough to stand up on its own as a comedy, the story's tired and predictable and the naughtiness is far too restrained. However, despite all that, I did warm to it and, despite not being able to explain quite why, I rather liked it for its English warmth and cast of recognisable characters - among them Jimmy Carr, Mackenzie Crook (Gareth from The Office) and Eddie Marsan (Sixty-Six, The Illusionist), who is rapidly becoming one of my favourite actors of the moment - and for better or worse, I still can't get Mel C's title song out of my head.

I Want Candy isn't the ballsy sex comedy we'd all hoped for, but its rather tame nature might endear it to Middle England. If you go to car boot sales or have ever had tea with your vicar, but still consider yourself naughty on the right day, this one might be for you.

I enjoyed this film: 3/5

I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: 3/5

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 1/5 - no action despite the promise.

To enjoy this film you should be: embarrassed by the thought of going to a strip club.