I Am Legend is a very fine novel. I honestly don't understand how it can be so hard to make a decent film from brilliant but very straightforward source material.

Agreed. About 150 pages into book 3. Stunning. Bought A Feast For Crows brand new off Amazon last week (£3.69). Haven't even finished book 3 yet.

Anyone heard The Weeknd's second mixtape? Wow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbN3bzCo0Vo

I'm a third of the way through A Clash of Kings (book two of A Song of Ice and Fire). It's excellent. I watched the series before reading the books though and found it greatly aided my mind's eye when tackling A Game of Thrones. Spoiler alert perhaps? Yet strangely a world that doesn't appear to have evolved in terms of technology or science in thousands of years. Just saying.

Brilliant film. The rest of that director's output however is utter bobbins.

Highly recommend Captain America. Hugely entertaining.

Funniest show on TV.

It's excellent however there's only six episodes in season one. Best to wait for it to drop in price or download it.

Saw Angry Boys the other day (it's on BBC 3 here). Two of the sketches were quite weak but the Aussie twins are hilarious.

Battlestar Galactica Boardwalk Empire Treme Mad Men The Walking Dead Six Feet Under Deadwood Dexter The West Wing Game of Thrones Entourage Californication As far as HBO's miniseries go, Band of Brothers, The Pacific and John Adams are pretty peerless. I wouldn't bother to be honest. It doesn't get much better and was rightly cancelled after 13 episodes.

Anyone come across this Canadian chap The Weeknd? Excellent.

Finally purchased a PS3 and I'm currently enjoying God of War 3 and Killzone 2. Both are stunning games.

It must be truly terrible.

I enjoyed it.

A decent twist but quite straightforward. I read the book and saw the fact that he was a patient coming about half way through. *SPOILER* Following the trauma of his wife's murder of their children, and his subsequent murder of his own wife, Laeddis/Daniels is locked up on Shutter Island. He is a violent and dangerous inmate due to his military and law enforcement careers and rejects his situation so vehemently that any challenge to his alternate reality results in him acting out in a violent manner. Following a brutal attack on the inmate George Noyce (who called him by his real name - Laeddis) the hospital's chief psychiatrist convinces his superiors to let him construct a massive role-playing game in which Laeddis is allowed to embrace his Daniels alter-ego and play it out to its inevitable conclusion at which point he will be forced to accept reality. If that fails Laeddis will be lobotomised as he is too dangerous a patient. The only reality that Laeddis will accept is one in which he is a highly decorated, yet tortured, Federal Marshall who took part in the liberation of Dachau while in the army and whose wife was killed in a fire in their apartment building started by a pyromaniac called Andrew Laeddis (which is of course DiCaprio's character's real name). It is on this basis that he and his new partner Chuck - a recent transfer from Seattle - are brought to the Island to investigate that disappearance of Rachel Solondo, a patient who has escaped from her cell and is inside for drowning her children and now refuses to accept what she has done or where she is (two aspects cribbed from Laeddis's own life). Laeddis also believes himself to be at the hospital searching for the fictional Laeddis who killed his wife as well as investigating the mysterious goings on in ward C and the lighthouse. So determined is he not to accept reality that his mind resets periodically which explains why he remembers nothing beyond the very start of the film, on the boat. This is all revealed to Laeddis at the end (including the fact that both the fictional name Edward Daniels and the name of the fictitious Rachel Solondo - a woman who is simply a nurse at the facility - are anagrams of his real name and his wife's real name). He is told that he must embrace his situation lest he be taken away for a lobotomy. His partner Chuck is then revealed as the mysterious 'Doctor Sheehan' who was said to have departed the island when they arrived. Sheehan is in fact Laeddis's supervising psychiatrist and was tasked with monitoring his progress during the experiment. While Laeddis initially convinces the doctors that he is willing to abandon his fake reality, the final exchange between he and Sheehan on the steps reveals that he has no such intention and is already planning an escape as if he, Teddy Daniels the Federal Marshall, is being unlawfully held at the facility. Sheehan therefore shakes his head in the direction of the other doctors and the warden and Laeddis is quietly taken away to be lobotomised.

The Crazies was excellent. Timothy Olyphant could make the phonebook seem cool.

The Descent is downright terrifying. Highly recommended. The Mist is also excellent.

Alien - Seminal sci-fi horror. One of the best films of all time. Aliens - Awesome, run and gun space epic. Arguably better than its predecessor. Alien 3 - Interesting but hugely flawed. It would probably be classed as acceptable if the first two films didn't exist. Anybody familiar with the original concept will no doubt be disappointed that it was never made. Alien: Resurrection - Utter garbage. Predator - Fantastic. The ultimate in overblown 80s action fare. "I ain't got time to bleed." Predator 2 - Enjoyable, light-hearted nonsense. Plus it's got Danny Glover AND Gary Busey. Predators - Slick, entertaining and visceral. It lacks the freshness of the first film but more than makes up for that AVP tripe.

"IT'S SO FLUFFY!!!!!!!"

True Grit is awesome. That is all.

I loved the A-Team. What were people expecting?

Brolin? James Franco surely?

Skyline was the worst film I saw last year. Unspeakably bad.

Average graphics? I can see where you're coming from as far as the script is concerned but I thought visually it was dazzling.

Tron Legacy is cracking.