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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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Persepolis
Well there was me thinking Ratatouille had the Best Animation Oscar all sown up and now Persepolis comes along. I'm still going with the rat, but it's not as clear-cut as I thought.
Persepolis is a delight. Dismiss the religion and politics, sit back and watch the simply drawn and exquisitely precise animation. I loved it. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: To enjoy this film you should: be able to identify with a character whose beliefs are not the same as your own.
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I've never understood how the nominations process works. Surely all the voters can have seen only a fraction of the movies
released all year, how can they possibly vote for the best movies from all the countries of the world? Well I don't think
they can. I think that each country submits their top dog for Best Foreign Language Film and some of them trickle through
to the other categories. Doesn't really seem fair, does it? Although, thinking about it, The Diving
Bell and the BUtterfly is also French and also features in this year's Oscars so I'm probably talking out of my arse.
Except that I'm not even talking. OK - I'm typing out of my testicles. There, that's better.
But enough about my hairy brains, Persepolis deserves better. Presented With a beautiful visual simplicity, Persepolis is
the world of little Marjane Satrapi, a forthright Iranian child trapped within the intolerance of the Islamic Revolution.
Don't worry if the Islamic Revolution makes you think of a spinning Muslim rather than a political and religious conflict -
I'd never heard of it either - think of it as a Roman Polanski story (e.g. The Pianist) with the religion replaced and
you'll be half-way there. The cartoon format is ideal for portraying the kid's life - the little sprite is adorable
yet she's made with fewer lines than Pete Doherty's breakfast - so we buy into the minimalist style and still
enjoy it as she progresses into adulthood. There are lots of laughs - mainly from the talent of the animators -
though you need to pay attention to appreciate them. Pixar this ain't.
Persepolis is an autobiography - Marjane Satrapi is co-director and author of the comic-book on which the movie is
based - and as such I noticed an unexpected lightness to the characters' reactions and the overall mood.
Had this been Polanski, the bigoted nastiness happening on screen would have startled the sphinctal starfish,
but here we're never far from a light-hearted moment even amongst the darkest of black burkas. As far as I'm concerned
that's great news - I don't go to the cinema to be depressed - but it may put off the deeply serious viewer. Its only
other sticking point is that some of the main characters are rather pro-communism, which does seem to have sparked some
lively (and typically numb-nutted) debate amongst the vociferous empty vessels that infect our species. Ignore them,
they've missed the point.
