I'd have an urge to play ping pong were I any good

Balls of Fury, with Dan Fogler, Maggie Q, Christopher Walken, and a little Reno 911 thrown in. I think one of the special features described it quite well - "a kung fu movie with absolutely no kung fu." Which actually isn't quite true, there are a couple decent fight scenes featuring the cutie Q, minus the stupid wire tricks. Nice to see a strong female character, though, who obviously is not subservient to any male. Yeah, it's dumb, but it's not as if it's painfully trying not to be - it's just a dumb, funny satire of Enter the Dragon and Karate Kid, with a good set of characters and actors for them.

Ratatouille, with Janeane Garrofalo and lots of rats. I thought it was cute, and better than I expected. I remember watching a third of Cars and kind of sighing as zoned out, but this film kept me engaged all the way through. The animation is top notch, natch, and there's even a cute little short that was quite informative about rats. Though in watching I reflected that perhaps I just don't have a delicate enough palate to appreciate haute cuisine, in my limited experience it's just seemed like very rich, expensive regular food in odd portions. So I didn't get hungry, surprisingly, from watching. On the other hand, now I do have an urge to get a pet rat upon Ms Kim informing us that they can just be let loose in the house, but it would either be a) stepped on, b) exploded by Ms Mattie, or c) eviscerated by Ms Rogue. So I guess that's a no go, alas.

A rocking, and slightly disturbing preview of a Star Wars game from Phil

Why do I have an underlying fear of deep water, you ask?

How come meteors don't land in the middle of New York, then? That's a natural disaster you never hear of...