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North Sea Texas. Beautifully filmed but too slow-moving as a story. Almost succeeds in making Belgium look like an interesting place to visit though.

The fella's away so I'm catching up with all the wanky foreign films I've bought and never got out of the plastic. In that spirit: In A Better World. Lifted by some really, really good performances, but a but heavy-handed on the moralising front. Makes sense it did well at the Oscars then. Also Danish is a patently ridiculous language.

Home. Not just a Swiss film, but a rather good Swiss film. It's all about the gradual impact living next to a busy motorway has on a family. (It's more interesting than I make it sound. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_8Zj7d4rk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGuQVwzYbU

Even I would. Might. If she suddenly decided bald gay guys were her thing.

A five-star review in the Guardian awaits.

http://www.errozero.co.uk/acid-machine/

And as has been pointed out elsewhere, this: ≠ this:

Nice of them to personalise the tray.

Good good. It's how things should be.

"I don’t wish to sound extremist, but I have no doubt that if every signatory to this petition were boiled down for biofuel, the world would be a cleaner, smarter place." http://www.newstatesman.com/sarah-ditum/2015/03/we-live-world-stupid-and-jeremy-clarkson-its-king

This kind of comment on the Daily Mail website usually ends "Brian, Marbella"

Katie Hopkins on the radio talking about Jeremy Clarkson. It's like an advert for emigration.

essembee's boss and colleagues after the phone call

No no no, lunch was Hoisin Crispy Duck. The producer was called Dave.

Outstanding.

The UK's Eurovision entry is, of course, an abomination: ...but the internet quickly managed to improve it: