UP IN THE AIR
The Story: A romantic tale of what happens when a frequent-flying corporate downsizing consultant (George Clooney) faces life on the ground
The Pitch: In the Company of Men meets Love Happens
Who It's For: Grown ups, some in business suits.
Cause for Hope: It's currently the Oscar front-runner for whatever that's worth.
Cause for Concern: Spliced-in interviews with actual lay-off victims are put slight damper on ensuing hilarity.
Defamer Enthusio-Meter: 8

EVERYBODY'S FINE
The Story: A widowed man (Robert De Niro) hits the road to repair his relationships with his grown up children.
The Pitch: Terms of Endearment meets Analyze This
Who It's For: People don't live in cities where Up In the Air is opening.
Cause for Hope: With each new bad choice, the chances increase that that De Niro will stumble into a good movie soon.
Cause for Concern: The combined awkwardness of De Niro, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore trying to create touching feel good moments could actually cause injury to unprepared viewers.
Defamer Enthusio-Meter: 3

ARMORED
The Story: A group of security guards plan to heist their own armored truck.
The Pitch: Heat meets Police Academy
Who It's For: Hard core heist enthusiasts only.
Cause for Hope: Very strong cast for a B-genre film including Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Skeet Ulrich and the return of the much missed Fred Ward.
Cause for Concern: Sadness that all the above are in this movie may drive one to despair.
Defamer Enthusio-Meter: 3

BROTHERS
The Story: When a marine (Toby Maguire) is taken captive, his wife (Natalie Portman) believes him to be dead and finds comfort with his deadbeat brother (Jake Gyllenhaal).
How Did This Happen: Coming Home meets Beautiful Girls
Who It's For: Strong intense drama fans
Cause for Hope: Solid cast including Sam Sheppard and director Jim Sheridan is always formidable.
Cause for Concern: Story may be too gimmicky by half; Natalie Portman's supernatural luster is fast fading.
Defamer Enthusio-Meter: 7

TRANSYLMANIA
The Story: Horror spoof about a college in vampire-land.
The Pitch: Scary Movie meets Dude Where's My Car
Who It's For: People for whom no laugh is too easy.
Cause for Hope: Was co-directed by a brother team, which means each only gets half the blood money for making this.
Cause for Concern: The fourth generation of spoof films gives signs of being unkillable.
Defamer Enthusio-Meter: 2

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"What two hunky actors are refraining from any public displays of affection now that spies on their set are suggesting they're more than friends?"

But then we remembered an old love lesson from kindergarten: boys tend to be most cruel to their objects of affection. So after racking our brains trying to think of every male/male couplet currently filming a movie somewhere out there proved useless, we took the very few clues supplied in the piece, added in that old grade-school dictum we just referenced and voila! We think we might be onto something.See the puzzle pieces connect after the jump.

Based on all the reports of on-set squabbling, competition and battling egos from the set of Jim Sheridan’s Brothers, our top suspects are the film’s “hunky” co-stars Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal. Before Var even announced the remake’s cast back in September, the pair already had a history of tension between them following rumors that Jake would replace Tobey in any upcoming Spiderman sequels. And as soon as filming began in November, gossip spread that the two were bitching and moaning over sharing the same makeup artist. The next month, Star reported that the divas were “competing over who gets along better with castmates and crew...while Tobey gave crew members new 8GB iPod Nanos, Jake gave out gift certificates to tony Koi restaurant.”

Interestingly enough, the relationship turned from sour to sweet seemingly overnight, as photos of Tobey in tight latex and Jake in his Brokeback beard schmoozing in LA emerged, followed by stories that Jake spotted Tobey and his family in Brentwood and “pulled his car over for a chat.” And yet, no happy paparazzi shots or friendly tales have come over the wires since then, leading us to wonder if this PDA-free pact is behind the void. But you tell us: are we just wishfully thinking? And if so, who are we forgetting?

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