May 24th to 30th

A much belated post for last week, which is clearly what happens when I go out on the razz on a Friday night.  The placeholders were:

More rugby

Godzilla

X-men

Karaoke, Belgrave

Chuck

Even more rugby

The karaoke and Belgrave bits may well get their own post. We shall see.

Rugby though!  It's a bit late in the day really to go over the games from a week and a half ago now, but they were belters, with much shouting for Northampton Saints who we adopted for the Premiership battle in lieu of one of our teams, Gloucester for me and Quins for the blokeface, being in the running.  The observant among you will notice that I've extended this weekly round-up to 8 days, that's to include the Premiership final from Saturday, and that covers the 'even more rugby'  We were happy with the result, and both controversial TMO decisions, but the controversy will no doubt rumble on a long while...  The French Top 14 final was a complete anti-climax after that, except for the result being an entirely fitting end to Jonny Wilkinson's on-pitch professional career.

Godzilla got its own post, just in case you missed it it's here.  A properly brilliant film.  I didn't get round to writing a review of its own for X-Men: Days of Future Past, I guess I just wasn't quite as impressed by it. Not that it isn't good, it is, it really is, James McAvoy is brilliant (though he looks a lot like he's still sobering up from doing Filth) the action sequences and effects entirely good enough, but it just wasn't as *great* as Godzilla.  And it didn't feel like an ensemble film in the same was as The Avengers, for example, it was very much about Wolverine, Professor Xavier, Magneto and Mystique, and the other X-Men were very much in supporting roles, I guess Beast stands out among those.

It's nearly next week already!  Oh gosh!  Right, calling that a day for last week, will blog Friday night separately...