Tough guys Indiana Jones and John Rambo come back to the big screen this year.And they’ll be battling the Sex and The City girls, a famous young wizard and a kung-fu loving panda for box office supremacy.

It’s not going to be a pretty fight - the action stars are both in their sixties - but it will be one of the main events of what is shaping up to be a bumper year at the cinema.

A very excited Time Out looks ahead to the most enticing films of 2008.

Continue reading … ‘Hollywood and Bollywood: 2008 preview’

Dubai’s New Year’s Eve fireworks will light up a different skyline this year.

For the first time ever the UAE brings in a new year as the home of the world’s tallest building.

Watching the growth spurts at the Burj Dubai has been great fun this year.

Dubai’s skyline has changed completely and the nearby Dusit and Shangri La hotels look tiny by comparison.

The latest count puts the Burj Dubai at 585.7m.

To put that into perspective it is the same size as more than 338 Elton John’s stacked on top of each other.

And we thought that his upcoming concert was going to be huge!

At the start of this year the Burj Dubai was less than 100 floors and the builders have managed to stack up to 156 by Christmas Day.

That is a rate of a more than new level every week.

We don’t know how tall it will be, but by this time next year the developers should be putting the final touches to the building.

While Dubai’s Burj Dubai is already the tallest building in the world, a new development could be bigger.

Lord Norman Foster has announced his firm are working on a development in Moscow which will, if completed, offer more floor space than any other building in the world. The Crystal Island development is not as tall as the Burj Dubai (early reports suggest it will be around 450m) but, as this early artistic impression shows it will be a lot wider.

It looks like the sort of tower that would not look out of place in Dubai. Keep checking the Time Out Blog for regular updates on Dubai’s most exciting new hotels.

Welcome to the Time Out Dubai blog.

Subscribers to the Time Out Dubai Film newsletter have been given this exclusive opportunity to get a first look at our new blog.

It will go live on January 1, 2008. But before that we couldn’t resist giving you a sneak preview.

There will be movie news and film reviews every week. So please come back and look again. And give your feedback on the type of thing you want to see on the blog.

Hope you enjoy these movie trailers. 

First up is the new Brad Pitt western The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford .

Read our review of The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.  

Another massive release this week is The Golden Compass. This children’s fantasy has the potential to be the next Lord of The Rings. Watch the trailer.

And read the Time Out review here. 

Time out blog will cover the same categories as the magazine.

These include:

Art & culture

Bars & clubs

Body & Mind

Charity

Children

Film

Hotels

Nightlife

Restaurants

Sport & Outdoor

Travel

Tickets

Elton John has announced he is coming to the UAE.

 This is going to be absolutely huge.

Get your tickets here. They’re bound to sell out fast so avoid disappointment.

Click the video below to get a preview of the great man on stage.

 Our friends over at Ahlanlive have got more news about Elton’s upcoming visit. Check it out.