I remember my copy of The Hobbit (the ZX Spectrum text- based adventure) came with a copy of the novel.

Tinkity-tonk, old fruit, and down with the Nazis!

Yep, it's not good. As you say, the different viewpoints all have the same voice, which is a major problem. And the international characters are just lazy stereotypes, bordering on the offensive. The British chapter is eye rollingly bad, and the French character might as well have been Michael Palin in Holy Grail.

In the mid-90s, all the cool cats were loving the Spaceman song from the latest Levis adverts - https://www.youtube.com/wat…. And like most Levis adverts at the time, it got released as a single, and everyone goes out and buys it, guaranteeing a No 1.

Indeed. It's also possible that with a different director, the film could have made a decent black comedy. But Snyder has all the comedy instincts of a stone.

It was a very mid-level BBC "big budget" drama, all handsome people in handsome locations doing…not very much. Way too many characters were underwritten (why were we supposed to care about ginger lord fellow's affairs? Corky's gay - so what? Is the lead henchman, Frisky, just written into the script as "Scottish"? All…

Never seen the show, but the current perception of Bonnie Prince Charlie in Scotland is summed up by Billy Connolly's description of him as "an effeminate Italian dwarf".

Antitrust.

The ones mentioned above. Also, Oofty Goofty, the Two Daredevils, and The Toxic Woman Of Riverside.

Depends on the guest - I thought Rory Scovell was excellent on the 1904 Olympics, as were some of the Australian live Dollops.

It's definitely overblown. Yes, young Kvothe is too perfect, but the present day scenes ground that - in that there's clearly an Unfortunate Event coming, which will be caused by Kvothe's overconfidence/stupidity. So while it's easy to hate young Kvothe, you know he's going to get his comeuppance.

The trouble with building your podcast week around Guardian Football Weekly is that it all goes a bit awry when the football season's over. But, catching up:

My Converse All-Stars purchase may or may not have been within a week of watching I, Robot.

Not really "lost", if he never wanted it in the first place?

Well, it is a temper tantrum - Torgersen and Correia chucked their toys because their "books about spaceships" were being overlooked for stuff they themselves didn't like. That the Hugos were easy to game is a sideshow.

Wow, this is the mildest review so far for this (compared to The Guardian or Kermode). Is it because it's not being reviewed as a cinema feature, but as a Hallmark channel thing?

Roth's been doing weird stuff lately. This was closely followed by playing Sepp Blatter in the FIFA film.

Catching up on stuff this week.

Hilariously, bottom middle is "Wheelchair x4".

I love death metal band names/logos. There's a local band called Party Cannon, who's Toys'r'Us-like font causes high hilarity whenever they appear on a festival poster, for example this.