More August Movie Previews

Well, uh. August. There are...a number of new releases. Not good releases, mind you, but at least the theaters are air conditioned.

August 6: Collateral. Tom Cruise has gray hair. And he's playing a crizazy criminal who takes cabbie Jamie Foxx on a Los Angeles crime spree. Oooh, bucking type yet again. Tom's a bad guy! La di da. Bet it looks cool while sucking though. Ahh, L.A. crime movies.

August 11: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. I'm not even kidding when I say that I've seen the first movie at least three times. I mean, it gives me hope for a few minutes that my grandmother is really the queen of a made-up European kingdom. It could happen, right? Right?? My sad fantasies aside, TPD2:RE looks really bad from the trailer, has a stupid premise, and has no makeover plot (which, let's face it, is really the glue of the first movie). There's always a mattress surfing Julie Andrews, though.

August 13: We Don't Live Here Anymore. This looks Lifetime movie bad--if only Lifetime could afford indie stalwarts Naomi Watts, Peter Krause, Mark Ruffalo, and Laura Dern. And, if only to confirm that image, its original title was Adultery. But hey, all the good trailers this summer have turned out to be total bombs in their feature length forms, so maybe this will be just super.

August 27: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid. Oh god how the studio system has failed us all.