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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.

Tristan and Isolde

Cast: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, Mark Strong. Directed by Kevin Reynolds. Story: Boy meets girl, with silly "Celtic myth" (apparently) plot attached. Running Time: 2hrs 5 minutes. UK Certificate 12A.

Tristan and Isolde is a love story pretending to be Shakespearean. And by Shakespearean I mean turgid, implausible and interminably boring. Mission accomplished.

James Franco is one of those actors who you recognise but can't remember where from (I'll help - he's the Green Goblin's son in the new Spider-Man movies). Tristan and Isolde will do nothing to remedy that, as he wears the same blank expression throughout. The Juliet to his Romeo is filled by Sophia Myles, another of those where-have-I-seen-her-before types (she was Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds) who is better than Franco but not as good as her Lady Penelope turn. The two of them meet when Tristan dies and is given the whole burning-boat-into-the-sea treatment. But this is wannabe Shakespeare so yippidy doo, he didn't die after all and the flames designed to destroy a corpse miraculously don't harm him at all. He drifts over from Cornwall to the enemy (Ireland) where Isolde nurses him back to health, they fall in love, he has to leave as she's on the opposing side, silly coincidences, star-crossed lovers, yadda yadda bleurgh. Been there, done that, didn't buy the T-shirt because it was overpriced tat.

The leads do manage to generate a small amount of warmth, but it's hard won because we see so little of the falling-for-each-other chapter. It seems that as soon as they meet, he's whisked away, which limits the audience's concern for the separated couple. The story is so daft that you really need to be able to ignore it (which I couldn't) and view it on an emotional level with the characters. At least there is one excellent performance to spruce things up - Mark Strong is superb as a rival lord, showing that his turn in Syriana was no fluke and hopefully paving the way for him to appear in more movies - and better ones than this. I know, I'm being harsh - many people will love Tristan and Isolde for the tragedy of the separated lovers, but they will be joined by at least as many who have seen the same thing done so many times to far greater effect. And the entire medieval cast has perfect white teeth. What's that all about?

Tristan and Isolde will divide the audience. Those who can rise above the absurdity of the plot and simply enjoy the love story will gush over it and won't be able to understand why their neighbour in the theatre has started snoring, while the snorer will be equally as nonplussed at the fan's reaction. You know better than me which camp you fall into - it's over to you.

I enjoyed this film: 2/5

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

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 1/5 - Sophia Myles teases with several oh-so-nearly-skin scenes, some battles, not very gory. Nothing to warp the kids' minds.

To enjoy this film you should be: able to suspend disbelief in order to capture the mood of the love story.