(links to trailers/more info where available/relevant) 21 (Heist!) Be Kind Rewind (Mos Def, Jack Black, and some good ol’ fun) Cloverfield (As if not) The Dark Knight (Let’s see if they can follow up Batman Begins) Get Smart (Steve Carrel as Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway as 99… could work, could work.) Harold & Kumar 2: Escape From Guantanamo (Hey, it was worth a laugh the first time) Speed Racer (Because… it’s different. I’m no fan of the cartoon, though) Trailer Trash (a movie… composed entirely of trailers! The mind boggles. What kind of trailer will this have?!) The Forbidden Kingdom (Jackie Chan and Jet Li! can’t go wrong, can it?) Jumper (I have a total crush on Rachel Bilson, and I don’t care if she’s only got a minor role) Semi Pro (Will Farrell takes on Basketball) Wanted (Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, James McAvoy, guns and assassins) The Bank Job (nominally; Jason Streatham Statham, heist movie set in London) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (INDY!!!!!) Untitled James Bond 22 (How can you miss Bond?) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (dubious about lack of Rachel Weisz)

Back in London, holiday over. Unsure of what time my body thinks it is, so will have to nut it out and see how long I last. Damn me if this city doesn’t inspire some conflicting feelings within me.

If there’s one sign of summer that I can’t go past, it’s the Boxing Day and New Year’s Test matches, when Australia trots out another round of punishment and humiliation, back to back, to some team chosen for the ritual sacrifice. I can just imagine all the other test playing nations gathering in a secret location to draw straws for who will go to Australia this year to get their ass handed to them on a platter. ...

You know you’ve been away from the net when… there are 450 unread items waiting for you in your RSS reader, and about 40 emails, when on average you’d get maybe 4 or 5 a day. Also when you haven’t blogged but for sporadic intervals. 2008 then! There’s nothing like looking at the year and thinking “oh crap, not another one. I was quite happy with the last one!” My memory now clearly stretches back 15, maybe 16 years, and that scares me. When you can say “when I grew up,” and there are actual differences with kids growing up now? Yerks. ...

Balls of Fury - bwahahaha! :D Love this kind of movie that doesn’t take itself seriously at all. ★★★★ Rush Hour 3 - Can you ever go wrong with a Jackie Chan movie? Makes the first two Rush Hours look like paragons of plot complexity in comparison, but it is the same old formula and it works, by and large, for a laugh at least. ★★★ You Kill Me - I’d heard practically nothing about this movie until I saw the posters for it around London, but with Ben Kingsley and Téa Leoni (I’ve had a crush on her since Bad Boys), assassins, mafia and a darkly comic atmosphere to it all… err… well, ★★☆ anyway, and it is a bit of a different story. ...