Coronation Street double episode

Most people in the street have heard about Maria's accusations and don't believe her. Carla wants to go to the police about it but Tony is reluctant, for obvious reasons. Carla eventually calls the police about the situation -Tony however is not happy about this and wants it to blow over.
Maria goes to the police station and claims that Tony has killed again -her accusations, however, are dismissed by the CID officer who recieves her. In desperate rsponse to this lack of support from the police, Maria takes matters into her own hands and attempts to run down Tony with her car. She crashes and is taken to hospital, where she fears for the safety of her unborn child.
Meenwhile, Carla is telling the police that Maria intentionally tried to kill Tony and that she's not right in the head. The police take this into consideration and pay Maria a visit hinting at the possibility of charging her with attempted murder.
In other story lines, Ken's dog is saved from drowning by Martha -with whom he continues to flirt with. He also does not correct her when she assumes he is not married.
Ken's son, Peter, has alson been put into a rehabilitation clinic for alcoholics.
Gary and his uncle believe that they have gotten away with their theft of the pipes.

First Hook: Police have been called.
Second Hook: Maria attempts to run down Tony in the street.
Third Hook: Ken's dog is saved by Martha.
Fourth Hook: CID officer hints at possible charges against Maria

The Wrestler

The Wrestler is, for me, one fantastic film. Mickey Rourke's portrayal of an over-the-hill wrestler is superb. Although I must confess had it not been for Rourke's performance and the high quality of the story, I don't think I would have liked it.
The visuall style of the film, I suppose made sense for the kind of story being told, but I did not really like it. It all seems rather plain and white washed -lighting wise. Also, Aronofsky tends to make use of the same shot again and again. I refer ofcourse to the hand held shot that follows a character from behind. Although, knowing Aronofsky, this probably has some deeper conceled meaning and motive behind it.
The story I found kept my attention at all times with really humourous (cleverly done) jokes. I also found the ending a fitting and emotional climax that leaves you thinking on what you've just seen.

Coronation Street episode.

The episdoe opens with Steve's girlfriend heading out to her pub band practise, at the end of this her band leader, JD, attemps to kiss her. Shocked and surprised she pulls away stating that she is very happy with Steve. However, JD questions this by informing her that he only made a move on her at Steve's suggestion. Angered by this she confronts Steve, who initially denies the accusation, and finds out that it is true. An emotional arguement then continues as it is revealed that Steve has been planning to break up with ehr for a long time. However, he denies that there is someone else involved.
Yet at the end of the episode it is revealed to her by Lloyd that he was infact having an affair.

I have just finished watching Pan's Laberinth for the first time an I felt compelled to blog on it. I must confess I find myself asking "what was the point in that?" now that it's finished. For those who don't know, Pan's Laberinth is set in 1944 Franco Spain. The story follows a young girl called Ofelia, who discovers an ancient laberinth where she lives. She meets a Faun who tasks her with several challenges in order to discover who she really is.
The (apparently) much celebrated spanish fantasy film had been strongly recomended to me by several people in the past. Eash recomendation seemed to follow the same line;

"It's fantastic!" "It's something you've never seen before!" "You forget that it's even subtitled!" and ofcourse "The story blew me away!".

Well I can safely say that none of the above can apply to my experience of the film. The way the film is made to appear -by the DVD cover, posters, trailer etc- gives the impression of a quite different film. I was under the impression that it was at least 50% fantasy, where as in actuall fact the amount of screen time taken up by fantasy s outweighed by the realworld elements. Not that this alone makes it a bad film or anything, but it is known now as a fantasy film and the Fantasy element seems to only pop up now and again. As well as this, I couldn't really make much sense of the fantastical plot. The real world parralell plot I understood well enough but the Former I found wasn't explained well enough.
This ultimatetly resulted in me, as an audience member, not really caring about the climax of the story -as I felt I was not provided enough information.
Aside from the (in my opinion) faulty Fantasy story, the technical aspects of the film I found very well achieved. Good lighting, subtle but effective camera shots and good dialogue. However all of this seems lessened in relevance when the story is faulted.
Well that's only my opinion.