Great Years in Film: 1973

This is a new entry that might become a regular entry dealing with a year of films that are particularly love. These are not top ten so there is no fixed order. The 70s is probably my favourite decade of any- Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, Altman where all making great work. Even actors such as De Niro, Pacino, Nicholson and Beatty where making excellent work. Anyway on with the list...

Badlands

It's a shame Terence Malick as only ever made 3 movies since his debut. The film is based upon the the real life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Anne Fugate. The film casts Martin Sheen (in the Starkweather role as Kit) and Sissy Spacek (in the Fugate role as Holly- the film is narrated from her perpestivce). The film is a terrific piece of work. The film was clearly an influence on Quentin Tarantino in his scripts for Natural Born Killers and True Romance (the music is very similar to Carl Orff's terrific score as well as the narrator being female).

Enter the Dragon

Not really a brilliant film, some of the scenes are hokey and laughable but this would have been the film to make Bruce Lee a star if he hadn't died at the age of 33 weeks before the films American premier. Once as to wonder what Bruce Lee's subsequent career would have been liked: He'd have likely completed Game of Death (and we wouldn't have THAT 1978 movie) and would likely have had a Jackie Chan length career (hopefully without teaming up with Chris Tucker). Lee though was clearly something special obviously an excellent martial artists (who would dispute that) but he had a special charisma and that's why stands out. Watch for some cool fighting scenes and a great performance from Jim Kelly. It is kind of a Kung Fu James Bond.

Don't Look Now

This is perhaps one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. I don't think any other horror movie as so brilliantly dealt with grief. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie are a married couple who after the death of their daughter who drowns in a tragic accident at their home they take a working vacation in Venice. The riverbanks of Venice help give me the film an eerie surroinding. Nicholas Roeg's best work.

Mean Streets

I love Scorsese's work from the early years to the later years, he is truly a master of cinema who deserves to go down down in history. The film clearly shows the makings of a wonderful talent at work and features a blistering wonderful performance from Robert De Niro in their first film together. A truly superb piece of cinema.

The Exorcist

It was banned in Britain in Britain about 1981 (arond the Video Nasties era) until 1998. Everybody knows the plot and many of the scenes perhaps without even seeing the movie. I think the movie gets people than a lot more horror cause it's linked to apparently real case. Linda Blair was never better as the possessed Regan and ended up in low grade b-movies by the end of the 70s it's a shame because her performance is something special in this movie.

Serpico

Al Pacino made Serpico in between making the first two Godfather movies. I like the movie cause Frank Serpico refuses to partake in police corruption making him one of the good guys but there is something in his style and demeanor that those qualities you wouldn't associate with him.

American Graffiti

George Lucas is obviously known as the man behind Star Wars -champion of our childhood memories/raper of our childhood memories- but this his second feature (after THX-1138) is an extremely likeable nostalgia trip. With great performances by the young cast (you can't always say that about the Lucas directed Star Wars films), wonderful period music and the use of Wolfman Jack's disc jockey. It was clearly the catalyst for Happy Days (the Love and Happy Days episode from Love, American Style -the pilot of Happy Days- predates this) due to the success of this movie. The Wicker Man

I love, love, love the Wicker Man. Love it so much that even the idea of the Nicolas Cage remake fills me with horror. There's something so unique about this movie it's hard to describe it as a horror film, I think it gets tied down to the horror genre because of the ending and casting Hammer stalwats Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pitt, this film is so much more then a horror: a psychological thriller, a musical- oh yes the music, composed by Paul Giovanni with a solid hint of pre-Christian pagan European culture and it varies between tradionatal songs and Giovanni originals, solid songs like Tinker of Rye, Landload's Daughter and Sumer is Icumen In. The performances are excellent- Edward Woodward, never completely gets the recognisition he deserves, Christopher Lee is of course the legend and Britt Ekland elegantly beatufiul. The ending is also brilliant. LOVE THIS FILM.

Live and Let Die

Roger Moore plays James Bond for the first time and deals with voodoo. I seem to be one of the few people who actually like Roger Moore as James Bond, sure he's no Sean Connery but Moore is still good in the role. I absolutely love the beginning of this film- a man is watching a full prossesion of some sort with sombre music, the man asks somebody "whose funeral is this?" the reply "Yours!" the man is killed and put in the casket which was empty and everybody goes into a happy dance. A top James Bond film that's a bit underappreciated.

Theater of Blood

I love this film: From Vincent Price's wonderfully over the top performance. Price's Edward Lionheart takes revenge on a circle of critics who badmouth his Shakespearian work and kills them off one by one in realition to the deaths of Shakespeare work. The film is wonderful black humour, you can't wait to see what the next death would be from somebody getting fed their own poodles to an unfortunate "accident" at an hairdressers. There is also room for a duel right in the middle of the film which doesn't oddly seem out of place. Classic British cinema.

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Emily Blunt

Only watched one movie the last couple of days

I've only had time to watch one movie the last couple of days and that is... The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

A decent if a little toothless adaptation of the Lauren Weisberger novel, it's one of those films that feels like it doesn't go for the gullet when you think it should. Thankfully the performances are good -Anne Hathaway continues to impress enough, Meryl Streep of course is always good and she seems to relish the role, but the two standout performances of the cast are Stanley Tucci and Brit Emily Blunt whose performances are both excellent. All in all, a good film, better then Ugly Betty (which covers somewhat the same ground, and I don't mind Ugly Betty) with a couple of genuine laugh out loud moments, I'll still recommend it.

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Scrubs DoubleSarah Chalke Judy Reyes

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Elizabeth Banks

Bask in the Loveliness (Done today in case I don't have time tomorrow)

Amy Adams

Scenes That Rock

Cabaret (1972)

A lot of people who know me (you know in real life) probably have no idea that Cabaret is my favourite musical of all time. Some people would probably assume Rock n Roll High School -because of my love for the Ramones and P.J Soles (and Paul Bartel when you come to think of it)- and I do love that film, some people would wrongly assume The Rocky Horror Picture Show and some people would also wrongly assume My Fair Lady because of my love for Audrey Hepburn (I think that film is massively overrated). I think Cabaret is my favourite musical because of the overbearing presence that the Nazi regime will becoming into full power very soon which will greatly effect some of the characters of the film: The Jewish and the gay/bi-sexual. Actually most of the musical numbers are restricted to the stage of the Kit Kat Club, some great songs like Two Ladies and Money, both feature the character Emcee (played absolutely wonderfully by Joel Grey- the father of Dirty Dancing's Ugly Duckling Jennifer Grey). As much as I think the Emcee is wonderful he doesn't appear at all in my favourite scene.

The scene I rather to as the "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" scene for obvious reasons. Brian (Michael York) and Maximilian (Helmut Griem) appear to be in an outside cafe of some sort (damn my memory) when a blonde male voice begins to sign angelacily. The camera eventually pans down to reveal a Nazi flag (Swastika).

What makes the scene powerful in my eyes is one by one almost everybody in the cafe (minus the main characters) standing up and joining in the song. By the end only Brian and Maximilian as well as an elderly gentlemen are those who remain seated. It's a very good representation of how the party's beliefs struck a chord with the German citizen.

A wonderful scene from a wonderful movie.

What I've been watching

The Departed (2006) is the latest film from the masterful Martin Scorsese. Of course it's a wonderful piece of cinema, what else would you expect from him?. It is probably his best film for quite some time (that's not discounting his most recent films I'm just saying how much I loved this). The cast are all great but extra word should go out to "mad" Jack Nicholson as the crime boss Frank Costello and Mark Wahlberg (with films like this and I Heart Huckabees) he's more than made up for Planet of the Apes). Highly recommended. Rent (2006) is a limp musical based on the original Broadway production. I don't know something just didn't click for me- the music was bad it sounded like musak-, the performances where pretty good though in places such as Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Angel. I'd never seen the original production so maybe I'm missing something. Give it a miss P.S. any film that features BOTH Rosario Dawson and Sarah Silverman and I'm saying give it a miss, they must be something wrong. Dead and Breakfast (2004) surprised not that it was anything special, in that it surprised me that it was a lot better then I thought it would be. There's enough blood to satisfy the blood lust crowds and actually as some funny little moments. The cast features David Carradine, Erik Palladino (formerly Dr. Dave on ER), Bianca Lawson (formerly Kendra on Buffy. I also remember her from Saved by the Bell: The New Class), Jeremy Sisto (Spoiler: He seems to die in every horror film I see him), Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show) and Oz Perkins (son of Anthony 'Psycho' Perkins). Not groundbreaking or life changing but recommended.

The Hills Have Eyes (1977) is "classic" grindhouse horror - not a piece of art but a piece of enjoyable cinema- Wes Craven as directed some good and some duds in his career and this thankfully falls in the good category, if anybody as seen the remake and not seen this- it pretty much follows the same pattern, including the dogs called Beauty and the Beast and the order of the family's demise. Watch it for Michael Berryman. Watch it for a funny 70s moustache. Watch it to be on edge. Recommended.

THE TV SHELF

What I'm watching at the moment in rotation to each other:

Ali G in the da USA (I believe titled Da Ali G Show in America)

French and Saunders at the Movies

The Addams Family Volume One

Party of Five Season One

My So Called Life: Complete Series

How I Met Your Mother Season One

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Sarah Paulson

Whatup?

Didn't have as much time to myself to watch as many films as I'd hoped this weekend and have only had time to watch two. The two are pretty different movies.

Stranger Than Fiction (2006) is Will Ferrell's first foray into more serious material (a lá Jim Carrey in the Truman Show) and is surronded by a wonderful cast including the lovely Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and Arrested Development's Buster Tony Hale. The film reminded me a little of Charlie Kaufman's work in the most flatering sense, writer Zach Helm is certainly one to watch for the future, the high concept plot sees Ferrell as an IRS investigator who starts hearing a woman's voice narrate is life, one days he hears her say that is death is imminent. It's a wonderfuly kookie movie that I strongly recommend.

Con Air (1997) is a different type of movie = pure popcorn. The movie is dumb from start to finish and more then once defies logic and common sense, it's never meant to be high art but it's utterly enjoyable with enough exciting and (intenionally) funny moments. A good cast to boot including Ving Rhames, M.C. Gainey and Dave Chappelle in supporting roles, Steve Buscemi is the best though, when I was a youngling this film played a small part in me becoming a fan of him.

The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, Rent and The Black Dahlia should be among those watched this week.

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Lucy Davis

Jenna Fischer

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Double Helping!

Amy Poehler

Maya Rudolph

Back Again

Haven't been around much, been very, very busy, hope to get back to updating it regularly again now, calender is less full the rest of this month.

Anyways it was my Birthday yesterday (by that I actually mean Thursday, it's early morning Saturday I guess when I write this), I turned the grand old age of 25- a quarter of a century, 5 years to 30, had a typical Birthday day in which I didn't really celebrate it. On with some recent DVD watches of the last couple of days.

Revisited the 1932 movie Freaks a couple of days ago, If I'm honest I've always had something of a fasination with abnormal people, that's why I'm such a big fan of the movie The Elephant Man and this. The "Freaks" where not actual actors but real genuine circus performers and it shows, some would say Dracula was Tod Browning's best film but this is much better. It's admittedly a little on the outdates side but at least there is a strong sense of unity (family) in the "Freaks" even if the finale goes off into horror terrority, weird ending aswell (which I will not spoil for you here).

Birthday viewing was Superman Returns- which marks the second year running I've watched a comic book movie on my birthday (It was X-Men: The Last Stand last year), It took a little while to pick up it's momementum but when it did it was extremely solid, Brandon Routh abely steps into Christopher Reeve's costume (who you can't help but compare to), Kevin Spacey is a strong Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman is still the king Luthor to me though) and I always like seeing Parker Posey in any movie. Only casting misstep is Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, just seems too young to me for how I envisioned Lois.

Hot Fuzz, reteamed Spaced/Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in a satire of big Hollywood action movies (I hesitate to use the word spoof as it's been tarnished with Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie and so on...) with a London cop transfered to a small English village. A top notch cast including the leads, Paddy Considine, Olivia Colman and probably a showstealing turn from Timothy Dalton. I actually think this is a better movie then Shaun of the Dead, which I think is a tad overrated.

Idiocracy, stuck in release limbo for a while is the first film from Mike Judge since the cult favourite Office Space, whilst not scaling the heights of that or Beavis and Butthead or King of the Hill, it's still an enjoyable enough movie with a couple of funny moments. I do think the premise had a lot of potential and it's not explored enough (the film comes in at around 80 minutes). Maya Rudolph looks beatufiul in this movie. Worth a watch but don't except a cinema classic.

Tired

Finished working a 24 hour stint yesterday teaching camerawork and editing. Forced to be up this morning because I've got another workshop later on. Luckily it's only two hours out of my day to do. The 24 hour stint was good- named the 24 Hour Challenge, 6 young people made a film of their own, in the 24 hours, to say I was exhausted at the end of it was an understatement. Thanks to a lot of rushing about and lack of sleep.

In other news I'm going to see WWE in Sheffield, front row seats in October. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet (Note: with all the recent suspensions and firings it's hard to know who is going to be there). Peace out.

Stuff I've been Watching Lately

Really not been watching too many film lately, recently watched HARD CANDY starring Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson which stars the younger looking then she is Ellen Page as 14 year old girl meeting a 32 year old photographer played by Patrick Wilson on the internet. She prepares a Screwdriver drink for him at his house and he passes out and accuses him of pedophilia which Wilson denies and she begins to torture him, the film is not too bad, the message is a but muddled in there somewhere but the performances are top notch, also it's never too gory like what the splat pack offer.

Television as been more in my DVD player then anything lately. Dawson's Creek Season Five (must be watching the show in reverse season) was the first season of the show's college years and features a death early in the seasons of one of the main characters of the show. This was also the season that introduced the wonderful Busy Philipps to the series, worth a watch even if like me your not big on the Dawson character Extras Series Two, comfirms performance wise that Ricky Gervais is nothing but a one trick pony, while it's a often very funny series it falls behind The Office and even shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Larry Sanders Show as the celebrity cameos are sometimes a little too self aware.

Had something of a Monty Python binge earlier this week aswell. And Now For Something Completely Different is just sketches from the show just refilmed but it's funny if not quite of the same enegry of the original series. Life of Brian is probably the masterpiece movie of the Python crew which is literally a laugh a minute (or second). Seen it loads of times of course and still makes me laugh. Python related is A Fish Called Wanda which is very funny thanks to the wonderful ensemble. I think Kevin Kline just steals the movie.

That it's for now- got Rocky Balboa to watch, might comment on it soon.

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Eliza Dushku

Shine on

Been absent from Blogger since Tuesday because I've been a bit on the busy side, going to be a bit busy next week aswell so I'm probably going to be a little short on enteries. My best friend since I was 12 moved out of Hull yesterday, that's a near 13 year friendship there, we talked (he's now in Manchester) yesterday and I'm going down so everything's hopeful, it's just a bit weird my best friend been all the way in another town.

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Anna Faris

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Returns after a couple of days break from the blog

Kate Winslet

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Jewel Staite

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Anne Hathaway

Scenes That Rock

Strange Behaviour (1981)

The qualification for the Scenes That Rock doesn't after neccesarily mean "Films That Rock" there are certain films out there I love scenes from like this one for example. An 1981 horror written by Bill Condon (who went on to direct Gods and Monsters and Kinsey as well as writing Chicago) it takes a similar plot to the later Katie Holmes film Disturbing Behaviour (and probably a million more movies), the film focuses on a scientist running experiments on teenagers that turn them into murderers, but the plot is not really important to this Scenes That Rock entry, the film is nothing more then a run of the mill slasher. What's important is probably what happens abou 20-25 minutes in: The teens all go to a party (as they do in slasher movies) but instead of a poor victim getting murdered the teens do a synchrosided dance number to Lou Christie's Lightning Strikes, wonderful because it looks completely out of place in a horror movie, and sets the film in a unknown era- What teens would put a not massively well known song at a party in the 80s and all dance in unision to who knows?- Anyway the song is wonderful and it help makes the entire film memorable because of it.

Recent DVD Purchases

For some reason I went over a month without buying a single DVD, this was probably the longest time in the 6 years since buying my first DVD player and DVDs that it's happened. That all changed yesterday when I purchased the following:

• The Young Ones Series One
• The Young Ones Series Two
• Fritz the Cat/The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat Double Pack
• Frasier Season Three
• Frasier Season Four
• Happy Days Season One.

Scenes That Rock

Welcome to a new section on my blog: Scenes That Rock basically about the scenes I love from the movies, whether it's pure excitement, laughs, tears or fun. Anyway Let's Get Straight down to business...

#1 Apocalypse Now (1979):

The Raid

Probably my favourite movie scene bar none from the moment the helicopters blare Wagner's Ride of the Valkryies out of the speakers to "Scare the Nativies" and the first gun shots from the copters. Made all the more impressive by all the explosions done on the set at the time. Robert Duvall's Kilgore makes the scene even better- "Fucking Savages" referring to a woman (and innocent bystanders) they'd gunned down after she'd thrown her hat which was loaded with a bomb into an helicopter and talking with surfer Lance about how the great the waves are in all the carnage. Check it Out.

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Alyssa Milano

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Amanda Seyfried

Great Television Characters

#3

George Costanzo

Played by Jason Alexander

in Seinfeld

Following on from last weeks Frank Burns is Seinfeld's George Costanza, another character lacking in nobility, Elaine (Julia Louis Dreyfuss) described him as a "short, stocky, slow-witted, bald man" and described as "Lord of the Idiots" by himself. He is very neurotic and self dominated.

Friends with Jerry Seinfeld (the character) since their middle school years. Episode plots frequently feature George manufacturing elaborate deceptions at work or in his relationships to gain or maintain some sort of small or imagined advantage. His relationships with women are always unsuccessful. His most disastrous was his engagement to Susan Ross, one of the few that ends "well" for George; he fears marriage and Susan's unexpected death saves him from the commitment and he was somewhat to blame for her by skimping on the cost of envelopes (watch the series if you don't know what I mean!)

Often desribed as dumb by his friends he is also considered an expert liar, and as often talked his way out of extraordinary situations (considered a useful skill by his friends).

George is primarily based upon co-creator Larry David and many of George's predicaments were based on the real life experiences of David. For example, when George quits his job in fury, he realizes his actions were a mistakes, he goes back to work the next day as if nothing happened, mirroring David's actions while working as a writer on Saturday Night Live.

George appeared in all but one of the Seinfeld episodes (season three's The Pen) and he goes down as one of the greatest television characters in history for his perfect self loathing and nuerosis.

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Jennifer Garner

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Kelli Garner

Switchblade Romance Review

Switchblade Romance

(aka High Tension) (aka Haute Tension)

(2003)

Reviewer Bias' Loves: Great bad guys Likes: French cinema Dislikes: Hates: Pointless violence that is there only to shock

If this film would have been made 20-30 years ago it would have easily been paired with the so-called video nasties of that time. It already somewhat conjours up the memories of The Last House on the Left, Straw Dogs Et al.

The plot sees friends Marie (Cécile De France) and Alex (Maiween Le Besco) go to visit Alex's parents in the countryside and study in their peaceful surrondings. However the peace is soon broken when during the night, a truck driver (Philippe Nahon) breaks into the house murder Alex's family and tie up Alex. Marie manages to evade the truck driver. When the man carries Alex into the back of his truck, Marie is forced to attempt to rescue her friend.

First things thing. The movie is utterly gripping from start to finish, De France is excellent in the lead role as is Nahon who is brilliantly chilling. The deaths are very glorified and linger a bit too long, it sometimes is a bit hard to like a film when a little kid is killed but I guess makes sense in the all family getting massacred sort of way.

I don't know why but I never felt completely satisified by the entire film, I guess I felt a little uneasy- bloody and gory movie deaths don't effect me but I think I was confused because the deaths seemed to be in a different tone to the rest of the gripping story. SPOILER: The twist at the end is somewhat well done, better then say Identity, worse then The Sixth Sense when it's revealed De France is actually the killer and Nahon maybe just of been a part of her split personality.

In conclusion, all I can say is, it's well worth a watch, there's a lot to recommend, occasionally intense (perhaps too intense), occasionally over gory but still a damn good watch from director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes remake).

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(3 out of 5)

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Natalie Portman

Work in Progress.

Firstly, I haven't quite finished my Guilty Pleasures for this week. Also I'm in the middle of working on a couple of reviews -proper reviews- which is probably my first in over a year. All should be up tomorrow or Thursday.

You know I mentioned earlier about one of my students making a film about 9/11 conspiracy. Well South Park went and spoilt it for me the other night by making a mockery over the all situation and doing it funny which will make it a bit harder for the poor lad's film to be quite taking as serious by me.

What else can I say? I've been off the past couple of days because of Bank Holiday weekend and of course my workshop is Wednesday night -the fifth week off the top of my head- got an 18 shift coming up in September that I'm exicted/scared of.

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Rachel McAdams

Dawson's Creek Season Six

Review:DAWSON'S CREEK SEASON SIX Reviewer Bias Loves: Busy Philipps. Likes: Pacey, Joey, Jack, Jen and Grams. Dislikes: "The College Years" of shows, Impossibly good looking love interests. Hates: Dawson Leery, Pointless Celebrity Cameos.

Okay I'm considering this my first attempt at a proper review in a long time, so bear with me.

I was a fan of Dawson's Creek in it's early years. I think it arrived in the U.K in 1999 (I think it premiered in the US the previous year), even though I wasn't a big fan of the Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) character I could identify with his dream of becoming a filmmaker and also the idea of unrequieted love. Obviously the better characters of the first season where Dawson's best friend Pacey (Joshua Jackson), soul mate Joey (Katie Holmes) and new girl on the creek, New Yorker Jen (Michelle Williams), the second season introduced two cracking new characters Andie (Meredith Monroe) and her brother Jack (Kerr Smith), Andie would have mental health issues within that season and Jack would come out. Also welcome in the second season was Abby Morgan (Monica Keena) who was a total bitch and all the more loveable for it, she ended up drowning in the pier by the season's end though after a night's drinking with Jen. Meredith Monroe would end up leaving in the fourth season, and Dawson's dad (John Wesley Shipp), a character I didn't like died in a car crash in the fifth season. The series creator Kevin Williamson (who also wrote Scream) left the end of the second season and this information comes into play later.

I'd not seen any of the college year episodes (the fifth and six seasons) meaning I'd missed the introduction of Audrey (Busy Philipps), who I believed was originally introduced as Joey's college roommate so what I'm about to write is without the knowledge of an whole season.

This season feels like Joey's Creek- Dawson at times feels like a supporting character and doesn't even appear in a number of episodes this season, I believe Joey is present in everyone- which is better overall cause the other characters are a lot better and actually more likeable. Speaking of Dawson, Hal Ozsan is wonderful Todd Carr, the director Dawson is assistant to for most the season. Meagan Gray as Emma Jones is also another welcome character -both are British characters but neither actor are from Britain-.

What's bad about the season is things like an all episode around them seeing No Doubt, means we have to see No Doubt perform a few songs, thankfully the band don't act in the film. Jack Osbourne playing himself and a childhood neighbour of Audrey is funny but very distracting from the rest of the show.

What's good about the season is Busy Philipps performance as Audrey while the rest of the cast (sans Dawson) are still brilliant in their roles. Good moments include Audrey's pre-rehab crash into the Leery homestead, SPOILER the fact that Dawson seemingly becomes Joey's only one night stand END SPOILER, Pacey in his new job (not so much for his beard though), Paul Gleason's cameos, Busy Philipps' Freaks and Geeks alumni Seth Rogen's appearance (one of the best episodes of the season), another great episode which sees Joey and Pacey get locked in K-Mart and the penilitumate episode which features the gang coming together to make a film based on the early Dawson's Creek years and a strong last episode.

Speaking of the last episode. Series creator Kevin Williamson returned to the series to give conclusion to the characters he created. Sadly he didn't create Audrey she is mentioned but doesn't appear which is not good since she's such a likeable character. The show is set 5 years after the previous episode and the gang have moved on i.e. Dawson is Ext Producer on a show called the Creek, based on his teenage years, Joey is editor. SPOILER The series does end on a tragic note, when it's revealed Jen as a heart condition and dies END SPOILER but the last episode gives conclusion to the lives of the gang it would be welcome if they did one-offs every few years to catch up with the characters.

Overall, a pretty darn good season. The characters are strong even if not all the episodes are not. If like me you enjoyed the early years but phased out, it is really recommend to go back to the show, you will not be disappointed.

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Parminder Nagra

Hung Over...

Went out last night to a poker night at a friends house, had fun until some people started taking the game way too seriously. Found out a friend does coke (cocaine not Coca Cola), I'm not square or anything but I'm just not big on that all drugs thing- I've never smoked and I only drink beer- but I'm not to judge.

Went to my Auntie's BBQ this afternoon still pretty hung over as I'd hadn't really got to sleep until 4 in the morning. Slept at her's for a bit on her seatee before amazingly gaining strength to eat the food, which was very nice got back home at about 7 tonight, was going to sleep but still awake cause other people didn't want to see me sleep clearly.

Working my way through Dawson's Creek Season Six which I've borrowed off my counseller (yes I see a counseller) of all time, not bad, better when Dawson's not about so much and he hasn't been in all of them.

Note:

I mentonied Coca Cola earlier. I used to drink Coca Cola daily and in huge quantities until I give it up along with all caffeine things. Yes I'm totally square. Been "sober" 3 and a half years now.