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When everyone complained about how “dirty” Sex and the City was a few years back, when they crowed about how women simply didn’t talk that much about sex, and when they said nothing like that would ever make it off HBO–the producers of Golden Girls must have really been confused.

Now, finally, someone has made things clearer with Sex and the City: Miami.  Yes, just in time for the big screen adventure comes the small screen spin-off, of sorts.  Funny?  Sure.  Weirdly not too far off from how dirty the show originally was?  Indeed.

It’s difficult to image that after twenty years the world is finally getting a new Indiana Jones film and it isn’t the most hyped film of the summer.  That’s the breaks, however, and instead movie fans are going ga-ga over The Dark Knight.  If you’re one of these rabid fans, then you might enjoy these two new TV spots that showoff some before now unseen footage.

While nothing spectacularly new is shown, it does very much reinforce what was already known.  This is not a Tim Burton Batman and even a bit of a departure from Christopher Nolan’s previous entry in the series.  Daytime shots show an open Chicago shooting location sun soaked.  No more dark alleyways for this film.

It’s an interesting aesthetic choice, but Batman unlike Spider-Man or Iron man has always sort of existed outside of reality.  It will be interesting to see if this new visual look takes away some of the comic book charm or opens it up to be a far more serious dramatic piece.

Early hype has been that Guitar Hero 4 would “revolutionize” music games with an incredible new feature.  Are they going to add a keyboard?  How about a kazoo?  No, sadly not.  Instead, the revolutionary new feature is “create a song.”

That’s the word from Game Informer magazine (or at least the word from sources who have seen it).  Players will be able to create songs themselves, minus vocals for legal reasons.  The new songs can then be uploaded and shared with other Guitar Hero players.  Less clear is the information that you will be able to only upload five songs initially, but may be able to upload up to ten based on ratings you receive.  From other users rating your songs?  It’s unclear.

It’s neat to see console games going more and more the Web 2.0 route with user created content.  Still, don’t expect to go too crazy with this new feature.  Activision still makes a ton of money from downloadable content and isn’t likely to grant players too robust of tools that might take the incentive away from downloading new, pricey content.

The fun thing about classic English literature is that you can count on a new film adaptation of your favorite novel about once a decade.  It appears Wuthering Heights is going back before the cameras again, but without its already cast star Natalie Portman.  Maybe she’s too busy doing Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium 2?

Portman was apparently billed to headline the less “stuffy costume” update of the novel, but pulled out weeks before the film was going to be sold to distributors.  No word on why, but one might assume it’s one of the usual suspects of questionable looking production or better role offered.  Suddenly, this update got a lot less interesting.  The producers plan to try to cast a real English woman to replace Portman.  One wonders if Keira Knightley is sitting by her phone?