If you’ve never heard of director Will Gluck, then learn his name now because he is one filmmaker that you will be hearing from for a very long time. Gluck first made a name for himself as a feature film director last year with his sophomore outing Easy A starring Emma Stone, which went on to become both a critical and box office success. His recent release Friends with Benefits, has received positive reviews and earned almost $20 million in its debut last weekend despite opening opposite Captain America: The First Avenger on the second weekend of Potter-mania. All things considered, Gluck is well on his way to becoming one of the most interesting and unexpected mainstream directors working in the industry today.

Will Gluck began his career on TV writing for such short-lived but popular shows as Grosse Pointe, and Andy Richter Controls the Universe, as well as creating series like Luis, and The Loop. He made the jump to the big screen by helming the collegiate comedy Fired Up in 2009 before producing and directing Easy A, and eventually Friends with Benefits. His newest outing, the “will they or won’t they” comedy Friends with Benefits starring Justin Timberlake (The Social Network), and Mila Kunis (Black Swan), hit theaters on July 22nd and features the two sexy stars as platonic friends who engage in the age old experiment to see if acquaintances of the opposite sex can sleep together with out letting their emotions get in the way of their friendship.

Of the almost seven billion human inhabitants of planet Earth, approximately four billion will appear in the romantic comedy New Year's Eve.  With this new ensemble tale, director Garry Marshall and writer Katherine Fugate apply the same formula of star-studded volume and idealized holiday shenanigans that worked for them in last year's Valentine's Day.  In fact, based on this first trailer, you might expect that New Year's Eve is a sequel to Valentine's Day, particularly given the presence of Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Biel, but the new film simply a spiritual sequel, with both actors playing wholly different characters.  Plus, while that film took place in Los Angeles, New Year's Eve is set in New York.  So it's totally different.

Some things that are enjoyable about the latest red band trailer for Friends with Benefits, in no particular order.  1. Two sexy people (Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake) not infrequently being sexy together.  2. An abundance of casual expletives.  3.  An even greater amount of even more casual sexy talk, sometimes dirty, sometimes euphemistic, sometimes both at once.  4. Woody Harrelson going way over the top while engaging in behavior established in number 3.  5 and 6.  Emma Stone and Andy Samberg in what are sure to be brief but funny roles, with Stone in particular going amusing crazy on the subject of John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland." 

Despite these enjoyable aspects, Friends with Benefits does look as though it will adhere rigidly to a romantic comedy formula, but I suppose that for many people, the predictability of the genre can actually be a plus.  Either way, enjoy the film's second red band trailer, which is quite different from the first one released many moons ago.

Life as We Know It is exactly what the title suggests… life as we know it.  If our lives happened to follow the structure of a romantic comedy that is. Yet as clichéd as ‘Life’ can be, there is something surprisingly bittersweet and tragic underneath. After all, the movie is about a baby’s parents both being tragically killed and the child left an orphan. That pretty much guarantees a few Kleenex moments right there. And this happens early on in the film. Clearly our sympathies are supposed to be with the baby and two friends of the family… who HATE EACH OTHER! That is the joke folks… what do you think will happen?

In the surprising romantic comedy Just Wright, Queen Latifah and Common find that together, they make a winning team.  The two share a charming chemistry on-screen, one that you can take home this week on New Release Tuesday.

The poster for Life As We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, has premiered over at iVillage, but you can see it right here. The Warner Bros. comedy, which was directed by t.v. vet Greg Berlanti ("Brothers and Sisters") hits theaters on October 8th.

The teaser for Tamara Drewe almost seems crafted by some kind of machine which generates stock trailers with obvious voice- overs. All that's missing from it is the "record scratch", although it does have that always-reliable moment when someone says or does something "funny" and then we cut to someone in an unrelated scene laughing (after the music pauses, of course). The movie itself may be cute and romantic, but it sure is off to a bad start with a trailer as uninspired as this. Then again, maybe I'm just the wrong audience for it...