‘Up in the Air’ is Jason Reitman’s first flat-out masterpiece.

Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman will be coming together for the first time (or third if you count the dream I had last night) in the new film, ‘Your Highness.’

Kevin Carr reviews this week’s new movies: Land of the Lost and The Hangover.

Neil continues his reign over Kevin by seeing more movies this week. However, Kevin doesn’t take this lying down and unleashes venom on Neil like dinosaur urine. (Trust me, this reference is relevant if you’ve seen Land of the Lost.)

We find our way back from the Land of the Lost with a list of 10 things we weren’t keen on and half as many that we thought were groovy.

In what seems like a pretty standard story, Natalie Portman has signed on to co-star with Danny McBride and James Franco in the David Gordon Green-directed Your Highness. Notice how awesome I’ve gotten at name-dropping. Notice!

We’ve seen Hollywood do paint-by-numbers comedy. Heck, we’ve even recently seen a paint-by-numbers mall cop comedy. But if there’s anything we can say definitively about Jody Hill’s Observe and Report, it is that it doesn’t give a f–k about painting or numbers.

Once again, here I stand on the edge of all things cool and new and awesome. I firmly believe that I am the only person alive who has not had time to watch HBO’s hit series Eastbound and Down. Luckily, there is DVR. For the rest of you, there will be season 2.

Courtesy of the fine people at Vanity Fair is a gallery titled “Comedy’s New Legends,” which features some beautifully-inspired photography of whom VF considers to be the important cultural heroes of contemporary comedy, with a brief discussion of how and why they have attained that status.

The first trailer for the upcoming Warner Bros. comedy Observe and Report, starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta and Michael Peña has appeared online this afternoon. And it is dark, funny and all other sorts of awesome.

Earlier this evening our good friend and faithful reader Christopher M. sent over a handful of new images from the upcoming Universal Pictures comedy Land of the Lost, but before we could post them we were hit with the brand new trailer, from which the photos were taken.

Forget the Best and the Worst of 2008. These are the actors, directors and producers that made the biggest impact on the world of film and how they might impact us in 2009.

Will Ferrel gets his big break co-directing episodes of his new HBO comedy series, “Eastbound and Down,” with longtime pal Adam McKay.

As expected, the Rain of Madness continues as we build up to the release of Tropic Thunder on August 13th. This time we meet the effects wizard and stunt coordinator, Cody Keith Underwood.

“You should make a weed action movie,” Judd Apatow said to Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and thus was birthed Pineapple Express.

I sat and watched Pineapple Express at a special screening last night. First off, it was just as funny as you might expect. Secondly, the film was followed by a Q&A with the film’s stars, director and producer.

Throughout the weekend and into early next week we are going to do our best to bring you up to speed on what to expect when we bring you our live coverage from Comic-Con 2008. We begin with a few big ones…

I am beginning to think that Ben Stiller’s upcoming flick Tropic Thunder is more of a character study on the egotistical nature of Hollywood — wrapped in a big flour tortilla of hilarity.

That’s right folks, I am absolutely not kidding when I say that I have not seen a better trailer this year than the one we just posted, right here, for Tropic Thunder.

For every Iron Man, there is a Made of Honor. And this summer is going to be filled with crap as much as it will be filled with awesomeness. So, in an effort to protect the moviegoing public, here’s my cautionary list of eight summer movies that are sure to suck ass.