Lymelife News

Stuff heard around town this week ... The talk at AFI Fest's "Everybody's Fine" premiere party Tuesdayat H.Wood at Hollywood andHighland was about Oscar hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, who had just been announced that afternoon .

Derick Martini's Lymelife garnered some real attention at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where our Kelly West celebrated the film's "timeless quality." Even though it didn't make much of a splash upon its release, as can be the case with so many Sundance hits, it was enough to get Martini the attention needed to make a second feature.

Writer-director Derick Martini has set up his sophomore film at Paramount. Studio has preemptively acquired Martini's original screenplay "I Am My Family's Secret" and has attached the "Lymelife" helmer to direct.

Carey Mulligan as Jenny in a scene from the movie "An Education." First it was Ellen Page , whose role in 2007's "Juno" stoked a craving for young, hip, mostly dark-haired actresses with outsider appeal and an indie-rock sensibility.

Opinion / Editorial : A Lymie's review of the movie LymeLife now on DVD and BluRay When you see that Martin Scorsese is the Executive Producer of an independent film like "LymeLife" you know that it must be something special.

Odd Horten finds himself caring for an aging dog in Norwegian writer-director Bent Hamera s dry and whimsical Oa Horten.

Depending on how you feel about security guards, Lyme disease, Matthew McConaughey, claymation, Avatar and the French, this is either a very good week for DVDs or the worst week ever.

"Lymelife" follows resident loser Scott Bartlett as he goes about his school days being picked on bullies and pining away after his childhood love.

"Lymelife" follows resident loser Scott Bartlett as he goes about his school days being picked on bullies and pining away after his childhood love.

Home entertainment critic Richard T. Ryan reviews this week's hottest new releases.

"Lymelife" follows resident loser Scott Bartlett as he goes about his school days being picked on bullies and pining away after his childhood love.

"Lymelife" follows resident loser Scott Bartlett as he goes about his school days being picked on bullies and pining away after his childhood love.

All of the new DVD releases hit stores on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday , I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue.

Here are the DVDs releasing this week, Tuesday September 22, 2009. And I'm not leaving a lot of films off the list.

'Real Housewife' Bethenny Frankel attends the 10th annual BNP Paribas Taste of Tennis at W New York in New York City on August 27, 2009 Alec Baldwin at the NY premiere of his new film, 'Lymelife' Bravo Bethenny Frankel of 'Real Housewives of New York City' September 3, 2009 5:17 PM EDT September 3, 2009 5:27 PM EDT Alec Baldwin is not "Housewife" ...

THE MOVIE: The parallels between Derick Martini's Lymelife and Ang Lee's The Ice Storm are pretty easy ones to draw--both are tales of domestic ennui and awkward coming of age, both take place in Manhattan suburbs in the recent past .

Forget Kevin Bacon. You want to play "Six Degrees of Separation," use Timothy Hutton as your hub.

Paramount and DreamWorks will bring Monsters vs. Aliens to Blu-ray Disc on 3 July.

Nature's Grave , starring James Caviezel and Claudia Karvan. From the director of Valentine and Urban Legend comes another captivating horror thriller! Hoping to put the spark back into their relationship, Peter and Marcia take a camping trip that quickly turns a fight for their marriage into a horrific battle for their lives.

Perhaps because it's less airless than the suburban angst dramas of Sam Mendes and less smug than similar movies like Little Children and We Don't Live Here Anymore , I'm almost inclined to give Derrick Martini's debut feature Lymelife extra points - almost.