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25 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy F1:
The results from the eleventh race in Germany are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Hungary next weekend on 1st August.

11 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy Rally:
The results from Rally Bulgaria are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Finland on THURSDAY 29th July (a day earlier than usual!).

11 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy F1:
The results from the tenth race in Silverstone are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Hockenheim on 25th July.

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
Fantasy F1:
The results from the eighth race in Canada are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Valencia on 27th June.

30 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy Rally:
The results from Rally Portugal are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Bulgaria on 9th July.

30 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1:
The results from the exciting seventh race in Turkey are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Canada on 13th June.

16 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1:
The Monaco scores have been updated to reflect Michael Schumacher's ridiculous penalty for daring to overtake a Ferrari. Check the updated results, see how your team did or enter a new team.

16 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1:
The results from the sixth race in Monaco are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Turkey on 30th May.

10 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1:
The results from the fifth race in Barcelona are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Monaco on 16th May.

10 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy Rally:
The results from Rally New Zealand are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Portugal on 28th May.

19 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally:
The results from Rally Turkey are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is New Zealand on 7th May.

18 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy F1:
The results from the fourth race in China are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Barcelona on 9th May.

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
Fantasy F1:
The results from the third race in Malaysia are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is China on 18th April.

03 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally:
The results from Rally Jordan are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Turkey on 14th April.

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
Fantasy F1:
The results from the first race in Bahrain are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Australia on 28th March.

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
Fantasy Rally:
The results from Rally Mexico are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Jordan on 1st April.

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
Fantasy Rally:
The results from Rally Sweden are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team.

31 / 01 / 2010
Fantasy Rally:
The new rally season is upon us - 2010 Fantasy Rally is now open! Check the rules or pick a team ready for the start on 12th Feb.

25 / 10 / 2009
Fantasy Rally:
All previous years' Fantasy Rally results are online - Check the 2009 season.

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.

18 / 08 / 2005
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Twilight

Twilight

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Peter Facinelli.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, adapted from the book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.

Story: High school vampires.

Running Time: 2hrs 2 minutes.

UK certificate 12A, US certificate PG-13.

 

Oh man, how did they mess this one up? Vampires in high school, with a very promising trailer, and yet here I am about to tell you why to avoid it.

Robert Pattinson tries to impress Kristen Stewart with his gymnastic artist-tree. I didn't know this, but apparently Twilight is a very popular book and the movie has been hotly anticipated by its legions of fans. I guess this goes some way to explaining why there's so little bloodletting and so much broody staring - but for the unprepared masses it just drags on and on and on and on and ooooonnnn ... until you're imploring inside your head for someone to get eaten because your mate's neck is starting to look unsettlingly appetising. It would've worked a whole lot better if we didn't know there were vampires to be discovered and if they didn't broadcast who they were quite so brazenly by giving them fangs and painting them white (well, except the black one). No-one else in the cast seems to notice this. It's a bit silly.

(L-R) Cam Gigandet, Edi Gathegi and Rachelle Lefevre.  Cheer up suckers. Kristen Stewart is actually pretty good as the human drawn into the vampiric family - you may or may not remember her from her previous roles in Into the Wild and as Jodie Foster's kid in Panic Room. Nobody else is worth remembering - in fact nothing else from the movie is worth remembering, except the set-piece in which the throat-munchers have a game of baseball in a thunderstorm - that's quite cool. Why not more of that and less teenage huffiness? It's SO unfair.

Twilight isn't very good. If you're a girl in your teens and you've read the book, step right up, you're the target audience. If you want a dose of vampirey neck-noshing, rent Interview with the Vampire again. Now that's a vampire movie.

I enjoyed this film: 2/5

I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: 3/5 (averaged out over those that love it and everybody else)

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 2/5

To enjoy this film: go back to your teens, become a girl, read the book.

 

Twilight was released in the UK on 19th December 2008.