This weekend is split between potential crowd-pleasers and potential Oscar nominees. Only time will tell if either of these potentialities actually come to be. All I really hope for is entertainment of either variety. There is nothing quite like sitting down for a popcorn muncher, but at the same time it is always nice to discover something a little bit deeper. The further we head into fall, the more likely we are to find this mix of weekly releases. It will be fun to sit back, enjoy the movies, and see how everything will play out.

Good Luck Chuck. (2007, 96 minutes, R, comedy, trailer) Dane Cook and Jessica Alba star in this comedy. It centers on Cook as Chuck, a man who has an unusual curse/blessing: whoever he has sex with finds their true love. Sounds like a good gig until he meets Alba and falls for her. Now he is scared that his curse will work on her and drive her away. Well, I think liking this or not will depend on what you think of Cook. Will this be another Cook as Ryan Reynolds? Or, will it actually be halfway decent? I like Ms. Alba, so that is something going for it. Hopefully it will offer a few chuckles. Dan "Balls of Fury" Fogler co-stars.

Resident Evil: Extinction. (2007, 95 minutes, R, horror/action, trailer) The second sequel to the video game adaptation. I doubt that this is still following the games, although I do not play, so I cannot be sure. The look of this outing recalls the Mad Max films as well as Day of the Dead. I doubt it will be good, but suspect that it will be a lot of fun. I, for one, am looking forward to it, having liked both of the previous outings. Director Russell Mulcahy (Highlander II: The Quickening, The Shadow) slips into the director's chair with a cast that includes the returning Milla Jovovich along with Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Mike Epps, and Ashanti.

Sydney White. (2006, 90 minutes, PG-13, comedy, trailer) Amanda Bynes returns to the big screen in a college tale that plays off of the Snow White story, but sounds more like Van Wilder 2: the Rise of Taj. Sydney arrives as a freshman, all set to pledge her late mother's sorority. Things do not go as planned and she ends up in a house of rejects. Here she teams with seven losers to take the campus back. I am likely not a part of the target audience, but Bynes is cute and has a good screen presence; hopefully she will be able to graduate to more serious roles.