I’m late with this piece of infor­ma­tion, I know. Still, it’s some­thing that should be known. Accord­ing to a report at TV.com Fox has offi­cially con­firmed the fourth sea­son. Addi­tion­ally, the net­work will move pro­duc­tion from Dal­las to Los Ange­les. That surely is great news after the dis­ap­point­ing end­ing of the third sea­son which in itself was quite short. At the moment no details on the next season’s sto­ry­line have been released. If I were to make a guess, it will be about Michael and his revenge and – hope­fully – about get­ting Sucre out of prison. Well, we’ll see.

As this isn’t really very sat­is­fy­ing, let’s take a look at what else there might be com­ing. A short time ago, The Hol­ly­wood Reporter men­tioned a Prison Break spin­off. If it will ever be, it will take place at a female prison and it will be named Prison Break: Cherry Hill. Accord­ing to a report at Yahoo! News a char­ac­ter likely will be intro­duced in the new sea­son and the spin­off will focus on her. A while ago, THR ran a story about that char­ac­ter and about the spin­off in gen­eral. Well, we’ll see about that too.

Here I am … in one of those moods. You know the kind of mood where you start think­ing with­out being able to stop. Every­thing just seems to be made of ques­tions and every poten­tial answer – again – raises a bunch of ques­tions. As if that wouldn’t be enough, I keep hop­ping from thought to thought with high speed. The last time I expe­ri­enced an onslaught like this was more than two years ago. Well, back then these things hap­pened on a reg­u­lar basis. Now I don’t know how to han­dle it any more.

It sounds weird and most prob­a­bly, it is. I don’t know why that hap­pened ear­lier – even then it seemed to come out of the blue – and I don’t know why it stopped. I’m am a multi-tasking per­son and I tend to think on a few things simul­ta­ne­ously. Not that I could stop that if I wanted to, mind you. That pro­duces some … inter­est­ing dis­cus­sions when I sud­denly change the topic in mid-sentence with­out rec­og­niz­ing it. The only hint I ever get is the con­fused expres­sion on my dia­log partner’s face. Notic­ing such expres­sions is another mat­ter entirely.

Some­times, I’m not good at that at all. No, that’s not true. Most of the time I’m not good at it. But there are these rare moments when I seem to know oth­ers bet­ter than they do them­selves. When I was a youth it was com­pletely dif­fer­ent. Some time in life I must have taken the wrong path at the cross­roads. What­ever I did or didn’t, it has turned my life upside down. I’d like to say that this scares the shit out of me but I can’t find the emo­tion to back this state­ment up. It feels more like … some sort of sci­en­tific curiosity.

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When I first saw Crank I knew that I was in for a wild ride. And I knew that I would buy this film on DVD as soon as it was avail­able in stores. Here’s the plot for those of you who haven’t seen it up to now: Chev Che­lios, pro­fes­sional assas­sin, learns that he has been injected with a deadly poi­son called “The Bei­jing Cock­tail” and the only way to stay alive is to get the anti­dote. Unfor­tu­nately, Doc Miles advises him that he absolutely has to keep his adren­a­line level way up to slow the poi­son down. That is the moment when the action starts and even though quite a lot of it is absolutely insane, the movie is funny to the extreme.

Two days ago, a few details regard­ing the cast and the plot of the sec­ond install­ment have hit the web. Obvi­ously, Jason Statham is back to once again slip into the role of Chev Che­lios. I for one won’t mind that Che­lios died in Crank. Promise. Any­way, Amy Smart is back too and will, I guess, star as his girl­friend. Here’s the story:

In spite of hav­ing fallen a mile from a heli­copter at the end of CRANK, Chev Che­lios faces a Chi­nese mob­ster who has stolen his nearly inde­struc­tible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires reg­u­lar jolts of elec­tric­ity to keep working.

More infor­ma­tion – mainly on char­ac­ters and their rela­tion on some stuff that hap­pens – can be found over at Spoiler TV.

Whoa, two days with­out an update. I can almost hear you out there scream­ing “What is wrong with you?”, “You promised!”, or “Don’t get a life, I absolutely need to read what­ever you write!”. I do take my respon­si­bil­ity seri­ously. It it all about enter­tain­ment, isn’t it? Since there’s noth­ing of great inter­est going on, and I know it all – trust me, I take the chance to address some­thing that’s been on my mind for the last 24 min­utes. No. This is nei­ther a hint at a cer­tain TV show nor am I refer­ring, in an encoded way I might add, to a par­tic­u­lar movie inspired by Dou­glas Adams.

No, what I have in mind is about a cer­tain term that has been in use for quite some time now: info­tain­ment. Obvi­ously, this word is the result of an art­ful cou­pling of informa­tion entertain­ment and refers to a mix­ture of news and enter­tain­ment fea­ture. In short, it is a way to make hard news more diges­tive to the aver­age Joe. Plus, to my mind, it describes a cer­tain lifestyle where it is impor­tant to know every lat­est bit of infor­ma­tion avail­able on a topic almost always con­cern­ing so-called celebri­ties or cool new stuff in gen­eral. It cer­tainly makes you look cool if you got the lat­est “intel” on some­thing that oth­ers don’t know of.

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Last year my friend David and I decided to make a short trip to a Euro­pean coun­try any­time soon. On Fri­day, March 14, we finally went to the des­ti­na­tion of our choice: Krakow. Since he has already worked there for almost a year he knew what we were get­ting our­selves into. Any­way, we flew to Krakow and checked in at the hotel we had cho­sen in advance. Note to self: If there will be a next time, choose a hos­tel. The hotel was quite nice, really, although we decided to go for the cheap­est rooms avail­able. Cer­tainly not high stan­dard but then, all we really needed was a shower and a bed.

After hav­ing checked in we went strait to the main square were we had our­selves a late break­fast at 1400. This was the first time I ever vis­ited Poland and I found it to be really nice in Krakow. Most restau­rants have their premises under the earth so you almost always have to descend a stair­way. And man, they do like dec­o­ra­tion. Wher­ever we went, what­ever pub or restau­rant we chose to pay a visit – it’s almost impos­si­ble to find more than a few square feet of undec­o­rated wall. That cer­tainly adds to the under­ground style you are likely to encounter in quite a few East­ern Euro­pean countries.

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Good news every­one! Troy Duffy, direc­tor of the awe­some The Boon­dock Saints movie, has announced that they have just com­pleted their deal with Sony Pic­tures stu­dios and that they’re going to start shoot­ing this sum­mer. The sequel, Boon­dock 2: All Saints’ Day, will see the return of the two Mac­Manus broth­ers and Il Duce. In addi­tion, Duffy promised a bunch of “funky new roles” which sounds just great. That said, I hope you’ll have a happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Here’s the video mes­sage (and, Troy, I will raise def­i­nitely more than one glass to you tonight!):