The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy was a great book, a great radio series, argably a worthy TV series, and a great towel. It's fair to say that there's a lot of expectation about the film, which has a forever-improving date release [currently April 29th for the UK]. The official proper trailer has released, and while it has a strong scent of American about it [in order to gain attention from our oversea pals] there's still a general good ethos with British undertones not far away. There's a nice idea behind Zaphod's second head, bound to cause problems with fanboys. Meanwhile the role of Ford Prefect has maybe now been calmed after initial panics about the character being player by Mos Def [OMG, HE'S BLACK, THAT'S SUCH A BAD THING, MY CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN RAPPED!] Watch the trailer here on the official site. [there's also some more pictures in the site's gallery]

Silent Hill, the Playstation [and then some other consoles] game that resulted in every sane human excreting for weeks on end out of pure fear, is to get the movie treatment. Over about 5 years, 4 Silent Hill games have been released, but the movie world focuses on the original plot, with the first game being the apparent stem for the movie. No real news about the other details of the film, but you can expect it to be as scary as hell.

And finally, The Coen Brothers are back to work, and appear to be doing their first good in the world since The Man Who Wasn't There. They'll be directing half of a one-off London stage performance starring Meryl Streep, Steve Buscemi and others, with Charlie Kaufman [screenwriter of Eternal Adaptation Being Of A Dangerous Mind] directing the other half. Theatre has never sounded so fucking hot, it really hasn't. Such an event is planned for May, and one only hopes the Coens will then follow it up with a lovely movie to hit our cinemas.