The Plot: While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe (Barrymore), a pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home. Coming to Chloe's aid is a a macho Chihuahua named Papi (Lopez), a spirit guide (Hayek) who endeavors to help Chloe discover her true heritage.

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THE BUZZ: I'm wondering if Disney employees think BHC looks kind of kinda juvenile after the refreshing Enchanted became a worldwide hit and was nominated for 3 Oscars. Chihuahua! Or why the trailer, which reveals nothing about the movie, also doesn't indicate that Drew Barrymore's voice is the star of the show. Chihuahua! Or if Raja Gosnell will ever make a non-syrupy movie. Chihuahua!

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The Plot: A thriller set in a city that is suffering from an epidemic of sudden blindness, where only one woman (Moore) remains able to see as the rest of her society is pushed to its limits.

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THE BUZZ: Hmm, more like Deafness, in terms of the level of hoorahs ready to greet Fernando Meirelles's adaptation of José Saramago's seemingly unfilmable novel. When the film's Cannes premiere came and went without un certain regard, I thought distributor Miramax might pull a Harvey Weinstein and re-edit the picture for its general release. But it looks like the studio is ready to take the hit for this one while they mount awards campaigns for Doubt and possibly The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Meirelles can withstand the potential bomb while he considers Love's Labors Lost as his next project, and all eyes are on Ruffalo's other two 2008 movies, Reservation Road (this year's All the King's Men?) and The Brothers Bloom. Julianne Moore, meanwhile, continues to recede into the true-indie world, which serves her better.

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The Plot: British journalist Sidney Young (Pegg) crosses the pond for a new job with a high-profile New York magazine, though he soon learns the bridges he burned on his way to the top can only lead to his downfall.

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THE BUZZ: This comedy is based on the first memoir by former Vanity Fair contributor Toby Jones, and if there's anyone would can make the snide, self-deprecating Brit palpable, it's Simon Pegg, who is having the opposite real-life experience from Jones as he becomes an NY/LA darling with a slate of upcoming movies (which includes Paul, a Brits-in-USA comedy he's writing with Nick Frost). We Americans love to watch people fail, so I wonder if the producers here have already optioned Jones's The Sound of No Hands Clapping, his follow up to How to Lose Friends that chronicles his failed attempt to segue from the writing desks at Vanity Fair to the pitch meetings of Hollywood. Helping to ratchet up the awkward moments here is director Robert B. Weide, one of the guys behind "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

Meanwhile, I'm noticing how the movie marketing here became more about co-star Megan Fox and less about Pegg or Dunst; perhaps they should've shared secrets with GQ this month, too?

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The Plot: Once Robert Kearns (Kinnear) discovers that new cars are coming equipped with intermittent windshield wipers -- a technology Kearns invented, patented, and unsuccessfully tried to sell -- he launches a landmark lawsuit against the U.S. automotive industry.

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THE BUZZ: This true story might make for a killer HBO movie, but a feature film? Seems hard to market to general audiences, especially during a busy awards-baiting month such as this. One has to imagine that producer-turned-director Marc Abraham has the clout to see a big push from Universal as his first film enters Oscar chase; the studio has revealed the first trailer, and it looks like the film will hit all the appropriate notes, but I'm still uncertain its appeal is broad enough to remain in focus for too long.

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The Plot: A drama set in a Mississippi township, where three people try to reconnect to their respective lives after a young man's suicide.

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THE BUZZ: I know the depth of Lance Hammer's narrative, but I won't spoil it for you like others have done in their post-Sundance reviews of the film, which won a best-director award at said festival earlier this year. (It also won for best cinematography, quite a feat considering the production only used available light.) Scoreless and near-silent in nature, Ballast has a legion of supporters (and a few detractors) but I think both sides can agree that Hammer is a unique, European-and-Asian-influenced director who is guaranteed to make a statement with each and every future project. Here's a link to a great interview with the director.

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The Plot: In Jordan, an ex-journalist (DiCaprio) working to locate an Al Qaeda leader for the CIA faces pressure from an agent (Crowe) for whom failure is not an option.

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THE BUZZ: Ridley Scott gets his war on again, with a screenplay by William Monahan (his first credit since The Departed, and perhaps an effort to erase the memory of his previous collaboration with Scott). I wonder if this one is being positioned as Oscar bait, because it looks more like Hollywood's savvy attempt to finally profit from this gosh darn war. Do you think Crowe and Monahan teased Scott and DiCaprio on the set for not having any Oscars? Another question: Did the first trailer engage you, or leave you feeling like you don't have any idea what the movie's about? If you feel confused by it all, good luck with the second trailer.

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The Plot: In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, naturally attraction the attention of some of the city's scrappiest tough guys (Butler, Elba) its more established underworld players (Wilkinson), and others -- all of whom are looking to get rich quick.

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THE BUZZ: Is Guy Richie back? Will he still be married by the time his fifth movie is released this fall? Will Warner Bros. handle it, or will it ultimately be distributed by someone else? These are the questions overlapping one another while Richie tries to keep his cool as the pressure builds around his career and his family life. Back in his criminal element, with a formidable cast that includes Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven, and Ludacris, I'm thinking Richie could be in for his biggest international success to date. ("International" being the keyword, since there's a severe chance this scam could be bungled by Hollywood types.)

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The Plot: A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy (Hawkins), a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

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