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The Deadly Affair, I found another Lumet to watch and this one is an excellent John Le Carre adaptation. Mason stars as Smiley (well it's Smiley in the book but Dobbs in the film for some reason) rooting out foreign miscreants with the aid of a retired detective. Intelligent, low key and very well acted this is a great little film oh and it's got a nice samba-ish Quincy Jones soundtrack.

My gaming started with the rubber keyed Speccy 48k so I was duty bound to watch Micro Men and it wasn't as bad as some of the reviews had suggested. Fair enough it was a bit thin for 90 mins and the script was a bit rough at times but the two performances by Armstrong and Freeman were colourful enough to keep me watching and it is a great story from 80's Britain.

Funny People is a strange beast, dunno how it's been marketed but it definitely isn't a straight comedy. Maybe dramedy fits it better as even though it is very funny it's got a fairly serious plot arc that you don't expect from a typical Sandler film. Rogen and Sandler work off each other well and it's got a bevy of cameos from actual stand up comedians and famous faces which keep the laughs ticking along but it's probably half an hour too long and the denouement is major let-down. Good effort from Apatow but I'd put it on a par with Festival.