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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.

Miami Vice

Cast: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, Naomie Harris, Justin Theroux, Luis Tosar, Barry Shakabar Henley, Ciaran Hinds. Directed by Michael Mann. Story: Vice Squad, Miami style. Running Time: 2hrs 14 minutes. UK Certificate 15.

The remake train rumbles on - next stop, cheesey 80s cop show with big name actors, taken deadly seriously. This one could go any number of ways.

Director Michael Mann has brought us some cracking movies in the past, most recently the dark and brooding Collateral, and he was heavily involved in the original popular TV series. He certainly knows how to do cool and dark, but Miami Vice was never known for its depth. Mann rehires two of his Collateral stars - Jamie Foxx as Tubbs and jazz hit-victim Barry Shakabar Henley as the cool boss man, and Colin Farrell joins the party as linen shirted Sonny Crockett - Don Johnson with credibility. The names are the same, but much has changed. They still steam around in that undercover cop's favourite (!) Ferrari - but it's an F430 Spider now, instead of the Testarossa - so white it could have worn a medallion - and the whole coolness factor has been brought bang up to date.

Mann's feel for a nocturnal city is pervasive again and provides the lasting memory - more than can be said for the heavy-handed dialogue and similarly clumsy lead performances from both Farrell and Foxx. At the very opening of the movie, we're dumped straight into a vice operation - there are, unusually, no opening credits - and it's a couple of scenes later before we realise it's not a spoof, and I'm not totally convinced that the actors knew any better. Once on the movie's wavelength, it should've improved, but sadly that's far from true. The plot is so predictable that it could actually be an episode from the series itself, and the acting is so average that it's a genuine effort to remember what, if anything, actually happened. The heroes get by on bravado rather than guile, the love story is achingly shallow and the entire mish-mash, save for the wonderful visuals, is all distinctly ... well ... 80s. And, crime of crimes, there's no sign of that rocking Jan Hammer soundtrack that made the series so distinctive.

Miami Vice is a shadow of the movie it could have been. Dumping the best bits of the TV series and keeping the duffers is not a smart move. Michael Mann's flair for mood saves it from being a total fiasco, but I can't recommend it on that alone. Poor.

I enjoyed this film: 2/5

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

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 2/5 - Naomie Harris shows some skin in the shower - enough to satisfy the leches and not enough to offend the censors.

To enjoy this film you should be: curious.

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The original series had a definite 80s style and has had its day, being relegated, as far as I know, to only the cable/satellite channels in the UK. So what better a moneyspinner than to bring this popular series into the 21st century?
The dialogue is downright incomprehensible in places and frustratingly too fast and brief, like every second of screen time was precious, only to waste several minutes on a meaningless dance or sex scene. I'd have to watch it again to catch all the plot development, but this film doesn't merit a reviewing. The action scenes are the best feature to this film.
Any number of sequels could follow, but I doubt I'll be shelling out for a ticket.
Herby, Salisbury