Sep 22 2009 'Valentine's Day' Trailer: Another VoltRom-Com Fuses Several Romantic Comedies Into One Powerful Monster
Can you believe that, come Valentine's Day, it will have been almost exactly one year since we last saw roughly a dozen celebrities of various caliber crammed into a single romantic comedy in which every other piece of dialogue has to reiterate the title? (See He's Just Not That Into You, web-slingers.) Thankfully, that will be the exact day that a new VoltRom-Com takes the throne, appropriately titled Valentines Day. This one manages to cram in two Roberts (Julia, Emma), two Grey's Anatomi, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Queen Latifah, and the two celebrities most noted for being "so fucking hot" before the arrival of Megan Fox (Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel).
The trailer feels like watching an Oscars montage reel for The Year in Romantic Comedy. Or, maybe more accurately, like simultaneously hearing the scream of every single ugly friend that ever had to listen to their extremely attractive friend complain about relationships that ever existed:
Oct 30 2008 'Hotel for Dogs' Trailer!
Not many family movies will encourage approaching and capturing wild dogs and investigating the sort of dingy, vacant urban buildings that typically house drug dens and the homeless. Hotel for Dogs isn't like many family movies though. It's the first and only film to cater to children who dream of living a life of servitude for animals: installing shoe dispensing machines for dogs, inventing ball-throwing devices for dogs, giving dogs superfluous spa treatments, and otherwise seeing to every whim a dog may or may not have.
What I find strange is that Don Cheadle is in a supporting role but doesn't seem to show up anywhere in the trailer. Come on, kids love Hotel Rwanda. They're going to want to know he's in this.
Mar 4 2008 Baldwin, Roberts, Deer Ticks Join 'Lymelife'
To those constantly complaining about the dearth of original ideas coming from Hollywood (myself included), some hope has arrived in the indie dramedy Lymelife. Alec Baldwin and Emma Roberts have signed on to the Martini brothers' period film about growing up, relationships, real estate, and, of course, Lyme disease:
Set in late '70s Long Island, the coming-of-age story follows two families who fall apart when precarious relationships, real estate problems and Lyme disease converge in the heart of suburbia. The Martini brothers also penned the screenplay.
If, like me, you glanced at the headline and prayed this was an adaptation of the Rush song "Limelight", I'm sorry. I guess we'll have to wait a little longer before learning the real relation, the underlying theme.
Alec Baldwin steps into 'Lymelife' [Variety]
