Jake Gyllenhaal's holiday treat and happy birthday Duncan Jones!

Surely it must be my birthday, or maybe it's some other grand occasion that I'm unaware of and Jake Gyllenhaal wants to give me a treat. It might be a wet and rainy holiday Monday but who cares about a few raindrops, a muddy car and there being nothing on the telly (no surprises there then) when Jake decides to take his muscles for a run? Actually, maybe there's one thing better than that - Jake taking his muscles out for a run while wearing Nike. Give me a sheet of paper with masses of boxes on it and I'll tick every one. Extra tick for the red. Please note how I'm not mentioning the tongue...


The previous day (29 May), Jake put on his smiley face when picking up his car in a garage in Hollywood. It's becoming more difficult to see Jake's smiles due to the efforts of the encroaching sasquatch so we should enjoy them while we can.



And finally...

Many many happy returns of the day to Duncan Jones on the occasion of his big 4-0. And many thanks to you for your gifts to us over the last year :)


Many thanks to IHJ for the great pictures! Duncan picture is by me.

My review of Attack the Block is now up at MovieBrit.

Zodiac reaches the small screen and 'I like your shoes' - it's all in the swoosh

Zodiac and Jake Gyllenhaal's wonderful portrayal of Robert Graysmith may reach another audience tonight as the film receives its premiere on satellite TV in the UK (9.40pm on Sky Premiere Movies to be precise). It's listed as a 4-star movie in the schedules I've seen, with TV Times saying: 'Based on a real story, this intelligent and stylish movie is spellbinding all the way through, with suspense expertly balanced against dark humour.'


Although this clashes with our annual TV showing of Wimbledon (the movie) as well as highlights of Wimbledon (the tennis) - not to mention at least three channels of Glastonbury coverage with or without Amy Winehouse - I hope as many people as possible do sit down to enjoy Zodiac with a big heap of strawberries and cream. As someone who does not have satellite TV, I'll settle for the DVD.


But this seems like a good excuse to repost a link to the Filmdetail audio interview with Jake. I could listen to that voice for hours. And talking of Jake on our small screens, I also hear that Brokeback Mountain was shown on the US Bravo channel last night and was heavily censored - I just don't think 'Jack Frederick Twist!' has quite the same ring to it.


Collectibles

The Antiques Roadshow is in town! Hertford College in Oxford has been taken over by cameras, experts and a long line of locals bearing grandfather clocks. I was surprised by the lineup of catering trucks outside the college and the huge amounts of coffee.


So, as I know less about antiques than I do about almost anything else and the oldest thing I own is my complete set of Upstairs Downstairs on DVD, I thought I'd take a look instead at one of Jake's mighty fine collections - The Nike.


Jake has far too many pairs for one post or one wardrobe but here are some of my favourites, with others dotted around this post. Some are just plain odd.





To sum up - It's hard to go wrong with a pair of Nike with green soles whereas you can have too much yellow swoosh. But so long as they're not crocs...



When Jake was discussing his thoughts about the real Robert Graysmith during the publicity for Zodiac, Jake remarked that Robert was a sweet guy but then he would become intense: '"Occasionally he would glance at things on me, and I'd think, what's he looking at? And he'd say things like, 'I like your shoes. Where did you get them? I had a pair of shoes like that once. What store did you get them from?'' Good man!


Afterthought

We were talking about food last night - for a change - and I came across this, which suggests that Jake has been known to bake 'chocolate zucchini bread' for holidays. What on earth is that and what does one do with it?



Includes pictures from IHJ and Just Jared.