Oh, man. So it's just another Friday night and I'm lounging with my best BFFs at the the latest fabulous Hollywood see-and-be-seen (don't ask me where, please -- I wouldn't want to make you feel embarrassed). And we're enjoying some light cocktails and hard drugs when the topic of conversation turns to, as always, "Who would win in a fight -- Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu, or Billy Elliott?"

It's a pretty controversial topic of conversation, as we all know. After all, Mace Windu's got that badass purple lightsaber, and Billy Elliott has those sweet dance moves, and Anakin Skywalker's all pouty and sad... The debate wages on as usual for an hour or so, and then my friend Jill says, "Wait. Guys. What if they had the power of teleportation? What then?"

And we are just like, "Whoa."

Here's the trailer for Jumper, directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) and starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jamie Bell. The debate wages on. There can be only one.

Thirtysomething creators Marshall Hershkovitz and Edward Zwick are no strangers to naval-gazing angst. They practically revived the genre singlehandedly. So it's no surprise that their new series, Quarterlife, takes a long, earnest look at today's twentysomethings as they search for their identity.

What is surprising is that this network-quality show isn't on any network -- it's on MySpace.

Based on a Hershkovitz-Zwick pilot rejected by ABC, Quarterlife will "air" every Sunday and Thursday beginning Nov. 11. A day after hitting MySpace, segments will appear on www.quarterlife.com, and a week after that, they'll be available webwide.

But what's it about? Well, in the broader scheme, it's about a group of friends struggling to find their way out of college. Specifically it's about one woman, Dylan (Bitsie Tulloch), and how her relentlessly honest blogging RUINS PEOPLE'S LIVES.

And, going by the trailer, it also seems there will be a lot of hugging.

The key thing about Quarterlife is not its subject matter -- or even if it's good or not -- but the fact that it is the latest in a number of professional projects that are legitimizing the Web as a place for creative content. What do big money and big names hitting the scene mean for indie creators? That remains to be seen.

But when one of the stars of "Lonelygirl 15" has a lead in a show by the guys behind Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai, the times, they are a changin'.

This trailer for David Cronenberg's new thriller manages to introduce all its major plot elements -- orphaned baby, abandoned corpse, secret diary, Naomi Watts -- while maintaining a sense of intriguing mystery. How does it all add up? No telling. Only thing we know for sure is that Viggo Mortensen is one sexy tattooed Russian gangster. Eastern Promises opens today; if its success is anything compared to that of A History of Violence, it'll stick around for quite some time.

The new teaser trailer for Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr. and directed by Jon Favreau, dropped today. As it was being passed around the office here at TDR, REELEDin manager Spencer Somers was overheard muttering, “It’s gonna take a lot for me to see another superhero movie that’s not Batman or Superman.” And you know what? He’s never been more right (In fact, he’s hardly ever right. Burn!). After such recent debacles as Ghost Rider, Fantastic Four 2, Spider-Man 3 and X-Men 3, comic book movies, especially Marvel ones, are wearing pretty thin.

But this would be a good time to list some other quotes heard by TDR staffers as this trailer was going around: “Badass!” “This is fucking awesome!” “That looks great!” And yes, Spencer agreed that he would indeed be seeing this one.

So of course, leave it to Favreau (whose last effort was 2005’s best-movie-no-one-saw Zathura) and Downey Jr. (in the midst of a career revival that includes another one of my favorite movies of 2005, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) to get us excited again. I’m almost ashamed to say that I had my doubts, but it’s reassuring to know that there are some filmmakers that you can count on.