So you may, or may not have noticed that there’s been a lack of posts over the past week, and there’s a good reason for that. I was away from the solace homestead and gallivanting around Moscow for a week… not for fun however but as part of my day job, which appears to be all I do in between writing and sleeping. Even bloggers have to pay the bills.

So I missed a lot of news while I was away and rather than appearing late to the party and trying to pass it off like I was here all along, lets do a quick recap “previously on 24…. beep.. beep… beep” style for the past week…

Video wise some interesting shit dropped; there was a ‘first look…‘ at ‘The Golden Compass’ which looks cool, and I’m just hoping it’s not Narnia-style weak. The the proper trailer for Gaimen’s ‘Stardust’ arrived which makes me wonder how long we would have had to wait for the trailer if the weird sfx mashup-trailer hadn’t been leaked last week. A big set of ‘Grindhouse’ clips were released, but I can’t lay any testament to the quality as I’ve watched everything I could up until this point and I read the scripts so I think I’ve already ruined it enough for myself.

The trailer for new Emily Blunt thriller/horror film ‘Wind Chill’ looks pretty standard and forgettable, but luckily I have a weird thing for snow-based horror, possibly just due to ‘The Thing’s legacy. Then yesterday a proper HD trailer for ‘28 weeks later’ arrived (thankfully not embedded in the Fox-Atomic’s crappy flash page) but I’m still finding it really hard to gather any excitement about the film at all… even when there’s screaming zombies running around. Which is really saying something because if the undead are involved my quality-meter is really …. really…low.

Stills-wise and posters there was also some interesting stuff happening this week….well actually there were some uninteresting spy photos from ‘The Dark Knight‘, but Aintitcool got a look at the Transformers 1-sheet posters and there was some shots of the massive varicose vein covered in skin that is Sly Stallone on the set of ‘Rambo 4′. Oh and there was a better look at Venom in the ozzie ‘Spider Man 3′ trailer.

In the news…. Keith David is the voice of Barricade and Hugo Weaving is Megatron in ‘The Transformers’, nice. Although you can’t really have Keith David without Rowdy-Roddy Piper but whatever. Kurt Russell tells people he’s all snake, then sort of retracts it… but not really. Oh and Zack Snyder might be returning to zombies… sweeeeeeeettttttt and Aronofsky is a fighting man, although I reckon Kubrick could take him in a fight if he was still around.