Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

This film comes with a lot to live up to. A book that's firmly buried in the psyches of a generation. A cult predecessor from the early 70s. And the weight of Tim Burton's career, which after Planet of the Apes and Bg Fish was starting to look a little derailed.

So down we trotted to our local Odeon. (Which is apparently about to close, and not surprisingly -- the cinema was less than a quarter full, for one of the biggest openings of the year, at only £3.50. We'll have to start going to the UGC, which is 15 minutes' walk rather than 5 :-()

( What I thought (includes spoilers) )

So this is my only real recommendation of the summer blockbusters so far, which seem to have been even more derivative, witless and forgettable than usual. Maybe we're seeing the early death-throes of this unhealthy skew in the market.

Hapland, or; How To Waste Half an Hour

Hapland is an excellent little Flash puzzle-game I've just found, although it must have been around for a while as there's now a Hapland 2.

It took me quite a while to solve it, but as I'm normally incredibly prone to giving up in disgust at tough puzzles, it's a tribute to its fun-ness that I stuck it out.

Go on, give it a go, you know you want to.