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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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Broken Flowers
Broken Flowers is a slow, subdued affair that wouldn't catch your eye if it was on in your living room. In a cinema though, it comes alive and turns into a carefully crafted chronicle of an episode in a hangdog's life. Good job Bill Murray was free then.
Broken Flowers is not for the masses - it's slow and reflective with no excitement whatsoever - but it's better than Lost in Translation and will easily hold your interest if you're into subdued movies like Solaris or Sideways. I liked it a lot. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - one very impressive moment of nudity by Alexis Dziena, some effing. To enjoy this film you should: not need fireworks for your kicks.
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If you're a Bill Murray fan and expecting the comic performances of Groundhog day or Ghostbusters or the gangster send-up in Mad Dog and Glory, think again. Imagine the droll performance as Hoffman's sidekick in Tootsie, but even more so. Murray's minimalistic acting in this film is really to convey his character as a burnt-out Don Juan. That said, although the film appears slow-moving and the storyline simple, the 1hour 46minutes goes very quickly as you are drawn into his quest for the mysterious writer of the pink letter, and one is left with a thought-provoking conclusion. The film is also supported with an impressive list of stars in the cast.
I'm off to see this film again tomorrow? Why? because I went to see it last week without having read any reviews. Had I done so, I would have realised that it's not a mystery movie. Doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy it - I did - a lot, but free from the pressures of expecting the mystery to be solved, I can enjoy it 100% for what it is. Like Sideways, watching this movie is the equivalent of luxuriating in a warm bath. The performances are understated,to say the least, and the cinematography just superb.
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The beginning is less than impressive. We're beyond the day that we're forced to watch the credits - something minor
should be happening to divert those of us - the majority - who don't care who the director or lesser players are. The very
first scene has the mail-woman delivering Bill Murray's significant pink letter - it would have been far more effective to
follow her for a minute or two while the credits played, rather than the dull white screen with postmarks floating by.
However, once we're introduced to Bill Murray's Don "with-a-T" Johnston, we're transfixed. Director Jim Jarmusch knows
exactly how to use Bill Murray's minimalist skills and the camera lingers on him, as if waiting for him to spring into
action at any moment. This, of course, never happens - which sounds like it it would drag like a paralysed pekinese, but
thanks to Bill Murray's inexplicable watchability, in fact has the opposite effect, the time flying by like a collie from a
cannon.
As Bill Murray travels the country searching for the son he's just learned of, he meets up with a bevvy of big names,
many of which are playing against type and are largely unrecognisable. Sharon Stone and Tilda Swinton
(the barge woman from Young Adam and Angel Gabriel from
