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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.

The Number 23

Cast: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Rhona Mitra, Logan Lerman, Lynn Collins. Directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Fernley Phillips. Story: A man becomes convinced that the number 23 is controlling his life. Running Time: 1hr 35 minutes. UK Certificate 15.

Jim Carrey is doing well with his serious roles, making The Number 23 a good bet for bums on seats. Unfortunately the story's a beanbag full of horseshit.

What a staggering disappointment. I can only assume the writer Fernley Phillips received that daft email that we all got some years ago claiming the number 11 had an ethereal significance, as it went on to add up the digits in various evil dates and numbers that all spookily made 11. Unfortunately that load of hooey is a whole lot more convincing than this cobblers. Jim Carrey starts seeing the number 23 everywhere in his life and thinks it's "controlling" him - it's one of those keep-you-guessing stories that really pisses you off by finally offering an explanation that doesn't even slightly fit together. The car on the way home was full of what-about-this-bit reminiscences, but unlike Hot Fuzz last week, we were laughing at the stupidity and sieveness of the plot rather than any intentional comedy. If there'd been an Oscar for Worst Original Screenplay, the other nominees wouldn't have even bothered showing up.

I can't share any specifics with you without giving the game away, which is a shame because there are a fistful of asinine moments to discuss. Had it been written by someone less simian, it could have been a really gripping movie, because Jim Carrey is engaging (though perhaps a mite over-intense at times) and Virginia Madsen (Sideways) is always reliable. The cinematography is excellent too, with some cracking comic-book style scenes that reminded me of Sin City. In fact, the first half hour or so was really rather good - but that only meant it had further to fall once the sheer incompetence of the plot started to invade. Honestly, it's beyond me how this ever got through any screening process without SOMEONE going, "errr .. hang on a minute, isn't this all bollocks?"

The Number 23 is a criminally wasted opportunity. Director Joel Schumacher seems to fluctuate wildly between good movies (Phone Booth, Falling Down, The Lost Boys) and terrible movies (Batman & Robin) - The Number 23 qualifies as the latter purely because of the monumental ineptitude of the writer.

I enjoyed this film: 2/5

I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: 2/5

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 1/5 - I can't recall anything warranting the 15 rating. Well, except a complete void of plausibility that even a child could see through.

To enjoy this film you should: believe that you'll get good luck by forwarding this review to ten of your friends within the next two minutes. If you don't, your nipples will turn into carrots.