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Latest News 26 / 02 / 2023 20 / 11 / 2022 13 / 11 / 2022 30 / 10 / 2022 23 / 10 / 2022 09 / 10 / 2022 02 / 10 / 2022 I've slightly changed the weightings of Alfa/Alpine/Haas to reflect their current performance. 11 / 09 / 2022 04 / 09 / 2022 28 / 08 / 2022 31 / 07 / 2022 24 / 07 / 2022 10 / 07 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 03 / 07 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 20 / 06 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 12 / 06 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. I've slightly increased the weightings of the Mercedes pair as their woes seem to be continuing. 29 / 05 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 22 / 05 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 10 / 05 / 2022 24 / 04 / 2022 I've slightly reduced the weightings of Norris / McLaren because they're doing particularly well at the moment. 10 / 04 / 2022 27 / 03 / 2022 I decided not to change the weightings again for now. Let's see how the next couple of races go. 20 / 03 / 2022 I have made some quick changes to the weightings - Haas seem much stronger than I expected and McLaren/Aston much weaker. I might tweak them again after Saudi. 13 / 03 / 2022 12 / 12 / 2021 05 / 12 / 2021 21 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 14 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 07 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 24 / 10 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 26 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 26 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 12 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 05 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 29 / 08 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 01 / 08 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 18 / 07 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 15 / 07 / 2021 04 / 07 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 27 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 20 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 06 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 23 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 09 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 02 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first three races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 18 / 04 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first two races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. The weightings for Alpine have increased because they've been a bit shit. 28 / 03 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first race - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 21 / 03 / 2021
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American Gangster
Ridley Scott directing a New York organised crime movie, Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe starring - I might as well slap 5 stars on it straight away. Hold your horses though, something's not right...
I blame Martin Scorsese. We all know his mob movies, specifically last year's "Best Picture" The Departed and so we fall into the groove when we find another one, expecting stand-offs, shootouts and general wise-guy action. In American Gangster it just doesn't happen - it's a more cerebral and, dare I say it, realistic depiction of a crime lord's life. There's the occasional moment of violence, often pleasingly unexpected, but nowhere near the body count of a Godfather clone. Had I been pre-armed with this information, like you are now, I might've warmed to it a lot more - however as it was I was rather ruing the bladder-testing running time of over two and a half hours.
American Gangster has an image problem. Whilst superficially appearing like a Godfather, in reality it's more of a Donnie Brasco. Worth watching, but not for everyone. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - whilst there's very little action to speak of, there are enough fleeting glimpses of naked female flesh to keep you on your toes. To enjoy this film you should be: aware of its surprisingly action-free nature.
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It's some time through the movie before you realise. Everything's ticking over nicely, Denzel's on top form as usual,
playing an enterprising drug baron who's inherited the Harlem empire with Russell Crowe as the lone unbent copper on his
tail, but then after about 90 minutes you start to wonder if it's ever going to take off. And it doesn't.
The other area where experience counts against American Gangster is with the appearance of Cuba Gooding Jr. I've never
seen what others see in him - when he collected Best Supporting Actor for Jerry Maguire, I couldn't have been more
surprised if it had gone to Roland Rat's mate Kevin the Gerbil.
Since then he's been in such mainstream comedies as Boat Trip and Rat Race, and I don't think it's unduly
harsh to say he was rubbish in all of them. Here he plays a club owner who deals with Denzel and gets shirty when his
business practices are questioned. Now, you know when you see a kid trying to be cool and with-it ... like this
season's Big Brother when Emily got kicked off for using the N word ... you can't help but laugh at the oblivious
patheticness. That's what Cuba Gooding looks like here. He's so tragically bad at being the hard guy that it shatters
the illusion - particularly when he's acting against Denzel who's so good at it. Denzel wisely makes his character
laugh in an internally patronising way, as if giving a silent signal to the audience that he shares the joke with us,
and so the scene actually gets away with it, but really, stop hiring him please.
