I came across a DVD of Blackadder Back and Forth in which Blackadder travels in a time machine (that looks and moves remarkably like a TARDIS) invented by Leonardo DaVinci. Lovely Colin Firth makes a cameo as Will Shakespeare. I don't like how Blackadder treats him (moreso because it's Colin Firth) - punching him "for all the schoolchildren for the next 400 years who have to sit in classrooms trying to find just one joke in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'" and kicking him for "Ken Branagh's endless uncut four-hour version of Hamlet." It's not Will's fault, it's the fault of it being badly taught most of the time. Otherwise, it's a fun episode.
The seventh Harry Potter film will be split into two films, so 7a and 7b, I guess. They apparently can't take anything out of the story so that it fits into a reasonable-length film, so they have to tell the whole thing in two parts.
I'm now reading The Monk by Matthew Lewis, which is gorier and racier and more supernatural than Romance of the Forest.
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