Pirates, a Monster House, Spider-Man and the Hoff. It's been a busy week!

Oh Boy! My feet have hardly touched the ground this week, I swear it's been crazy! Screenings and loads of great stories, so let's get stuck in...

Okay, first off, let's talk about Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. I know this film is going to be huge, but at two and half hours it is way too long. I really could have done with being about 30 to 45 minutes shorter. The whole thing feels like it's filling a rather big gap between the first and third films and leaves you with one of those annoying cliffhanger-style "To Be Continued" endings. Having said that, there fight scenes are impressive, the effects are very impressive and the funny bits are really funny (mostly). Depp does the camp/drunk/cad pirate captain thing very well but Bloom and Knightley kind of let the side down in comparison. Disappointing but not with redeeming features.

Okay, next I want to talk about Monster House. In a word, awesome. Perfectly cast, superbly written, excellently staged and it looks fantastic. It's got something for adults as well as kids and deserves to be the sleeper hit of the summer. A frighteningly good movie. You have to see it!

Next, I got this story on one of my favourite film sites the other day. I spoke to Jeffrey Katzenberg the other day when he was in London and we talked about the possibility of him doing an Over the Hedge sequel. This is what he told me.

And perhaps the event of the week for me has to be the release of the Spider-Man 3 trailer. As you may or not know I am a huge Spider-Man fan so have been waiting for this to hit the net pretty much ever since the film was announced. It looks like it's going to be a real doozy and I swear, if I could, I'd start queueing for my ticket right now. If you haven't seen it click here and enjoy!

In other news, my David Hasselhoff exclusive will be hittting the net in the next 12 hours so keep googling for that one. I'll post links when I can. Also, my tickets for the preview of Superman Returns arrived this morning so I am really looking forward to that. for those of you who live in Chicago, I'll be on Steve & Johnnie's show on WGN Radio Monday morning around 9.10AM GMT to talk about what I thought. They're watching it in the US this weekend so we can compare notes.

Okay, I'm spent and I have to go get dinner on, so have a great day/evening/long weekend and I'll be back with updates real soon.