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The Monday afternoon session happened to run long that day so there was a delay before the start of the night session. That allowed me to take in part of a doubles match on Court 11: Nadia Petrova & Jonas Bjorkman vs Rennae Stubbs & Robert Lindstedt. Petrova & Bjorkman would go on to win 6-3 6-2.

Serena Williams vs Severine Bremond was the first match on Arthur Ashe. Serena beat up the French girl pretty easily and won 6-2 6-2. During the interlude, some of the cast of Entourage came out and to hit balls into the crowd. Adrian Grenier (Vinny Chase on the show) looked like such a pansy trying to swing a racquet!

Then the main match got underway: Andy Murray vs Stanislas Wawrinka. I was hoping for a classic five-setter that went on into the night but Murray was always just that little bit too good and won 6-1 6-3 6-3.

More photos in the gallery.

First up in the Armstrong Stadium was Nikolay Davydenko vs Dudi Sela. Davydenko won it 6-3 6-3 6-3.

Following that match was Elena Dementieva vs Pauline Parmentier. The beautiful Elena coasted to an easy 6-2 6-1 win.

Then out on Court 4 I saw Marin Cilic vs Julien Benneteau. It was a tough battle that went the distance with Cilic eventually prevailing 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-7 6-2.

Right beside the Court 4 area is where some of the practice courts are located. It’s difficult to see into them at ground level but you can get a view from up in the top corner of the stands. So when Roger Federer himself came out to practice, almost everyone shot across to catch a glimpse of the great man. I took a quick photo but then got back to watching the Cilic – Benneteau match. However, most of the crowd remained looking over the wall to the practice courts which I thought was bad form and slightly distracting to the players.

Finally, I headed to the Grandstand Court to watch another of my favourite females: Caroline Wozniacki vs Maria Elena Camerin. The lovely Caroline won pretty easily, 6-1 6-2.

More photos in the gallery.

First up in the Armstrong Stadium – Dinara Safina vs Kristie Ahn, which Safina won 6-3 6-4.

Then out to Court 11 to see one of my faves – Agnieszka Radwanska vs Yaroslava Shvedova. A-Rad won 6-4 6-2.

Next it was back to the Armstrong Stadium to see Tommy Haas vs Richard Gasquet play out an excellent five-setter. With two of the best backhands in the game on show, there were plenty of entertaining rallies. In the end, Haas won the deciding set 6-2.

On Court 9, I got as close as possible to see Nicole Vaidisova vs Petra Cetkovska. The lovely but psychotic Nicole won 6-1 6-2.

Then a short walk to Court 7 where Jill Craybas vs Dominika Cibulkova had already started. Cibulkova, the diminutive minx, won out 6-3 7-6.

Following that, I went to the Grandstand Stadium just in time for Marta Domachowska vs Bethanie Mattek. To the joy of most of the US crowd, the close match went to Mattek, 6-7 7-5 6-4. I was secretly cheering for the lovely Polish girl.

As dusk was setting in, Court 13 still had one match to go – the all French affair of Camille Pin vs Alize Cornet. It was won 7-5 6-0 by Cornet.

More photos in the gallery.

First I went to the Grandstand Court and watched the start of Gael Monfils vs Pablo Cuevas. Monfils would go on to win in straight sets.

Then I moved along to the Armstrong Stadium to watch a set and a bit of David Ferrer vs Martin Vassallo Arguello. Ferrer took the first set on a tiebreak but then won the next two easily.

I was really just biding my time until a particular match that I wanted to see. My favourite female player is 19 year old Belarusian, Victoria Azarenka, and she was playing in the second match on one of the outside courts so I made my way there. However the first match was still in play on that court – Robin Soderling vs Evgeny Korolev. One line judge gave quite a few bad line calls and had Soderling majorly pissed off.

After Korolev won that match in straight sets, I waited for Victoria Azarenka vs Klara Zakopalova. Vika looked very well in an all blue outfit and had it pretty easy in the match, wrapping up a 6-2 6-1 win in under an hour. Something I hadn’t noticed before when watching her on television was that when she’s receiving serve and starts moving her feet, she does this little hop that she probably doesn’t even realise she’s doing. It’s so cute and adorable!

Next I went back to the Armstrong Stadium and got there for the start of Andy Murray vs Sergio Roitman. Roitman played well and gave him a good game but the Muzza was always too strong and ran away with it in the end. His winning shot on match point was pretty special.

Now I had a choice to make between another two of my favourite women players. Caroline Wozniacki, the young Dane, was starting her match and I knew that Lucie Safarova would be starting soon too. I decided to just catch a couple of games from Caroline Wozniacki vs Ahsha Rolle before moving on to see Lucie. I knew Wozniacki would win and that I could get to see her in full in the next round. With Lucie I wasn’t so sure.

And that’s the way it turned out. Wozniacki won easily while the Lucie Safarova vs Sorana Cirstea match was a very close one which went to three sets but ultimately Sorana was a worthy winner.

As we moved into the evening I was feeling pretty tired and sunburned so decided to grab one more match before leaving, Tamira Paszek vs Maria Kirilenko. Neither played too well but it was a tight match that in the end went to Paszek, 6-4 in the third.

And that was that. A very enjoyable day all around and I’m looking forward to heading back tomorrow. A few not so good things: 1) mediocre overpriced food, 2) sunburn, 3) me forgetting to charge my camera battery the night before so I only had it working for half the day.

More photos in the gallery.

The best part was when I pretended to trip on the bridge, flung the doll over the side and screamed like a distraught parent. Oh the hilarity!

To cut a long story short, I’m not allowed back there anymore.

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More photos in the gallery.

Oh no wait, that last bit was from ‘The Matrix’, which is all I could think of in the first half hour of this rubbish. ‘Wanted’ is adapted from a recent graphic novel but apparently has quite a few changes. Maybe it would have been better if it had stuck more rigidly to the source material. Overall it’s just a big pile of fluffy nonsense. But it is quite a lot of fun too. There are some great set pieces and well used special effects. However it’s worth no more than 3 crumbs out of 10.

The bus was going from Edmonton to Winnipeg and the attack happened somewhere in the province of Manitoba. I don’t know anything about the loony who did this but having lived in Canada for the last nine months it’s obvious that the biggest problem in this country is the cyclical triumvirate of homelessness, mental illness and substance abuse. It wouldn’t be a surprise to anyone if we learned over the next few days that the killer was afflicted with any or all of these conditions.

It must’ve been a horrible sight for the other passengers and something that will stick with them forever. I watched a couple of Al-Qaeda’s decapitation videos a few years ago and it’s not anything I’d like to see again.

It doesn’t pretend to be any more than it is, which is a credit. It’s crude, juvenile and full of slapstick and while it’s very hit and miss, the hits are pretty good. The whole cast is great and the song that Ferrell and Reilly perform is brilliant. It gets 4 crumbs out of 10 from me.

Instead what we got was a very simple story barely worthy of an X-Files TV episode and a subplot with only a tenuous link to the main plot. There was some stuff to like about it though. The film didn’t get bogged down in trying to fill in the gap of the last six years, the Mulder & Scully relationship was kept understated and it adequately dealt with issues of belief, faith, morals, etc. among the main characters. Some of the outdoor scenes in the snow were nicely shot and there were a lot of night scenes, reminiscent of the television episodes. I also loved all the little nods to the ardent fan. Since seeing the film I’ve even read about a couple more injokes that I hadn’t noticed. It was also fun to recognise some of downtown Vancouver in one scene.

The film had a supposed $30m budget and will need to top that comfortably in box office takings if Fox are to greenlight another film in the franchise. For an opening day release, the theatre I was in had a good crowd but was nowhere near sold out (unlike the myriad Batman showings over the last week).

I really hope we get a third X-Files as it will probably go back to dealing with the overall mythology arc of the show, particularly with 2012 being set as a pivotal year in the show’s storyline some time ago. But that hypothetical film would require a bigger budget and I fear that it might not happen.

Anyway, I give ‘I Want to Believe’ 5 crumbs out of 10.