Every so often I volunteer to dog sit my friends’ hound, a beagle named George. Oh, the fun we have together! Sometimes we go for walks. Sometimes he poops on the carpet. And sometimes I dress him to look just like Clint Eastwood in the enjoyably old school WWII actioner Where Eagles Dare.

Okay, so I don’t do the last thing—but I might start, having been inspired by Empire magazine’s goofy (or should that be Pluto-y?) gallery of reader-generated, dog-themed movie poster mash-ups. In addition to Where Beagles Dare, you’ll also find Terminator Dalmation, In the Poop, Pup Fiction, The Good German Shepherd, Good Will Humping, The Great Dane Robbery, There Will Be Bloodhound, Planet Terrier, and many more. It’s all good clean fun, though I was disappointed by the lack of a Near Bark. Maybe I’ll just have to rough—”Ruff!”—one out myself.

Here’s your first look at the movie poster for the dark David Duchovny-Demi Moore comedy The Joneses (releases April 16). They star as the seemingly perfect couple next door that move into a gated community with their equally perfect children (Zombieland’s Amber Heard and The Beautiful Life‘s Ben Hollingsworth) and become the envy of all. The twist: They’re not a family, they’re employees of a stealth marketing company with the job of making their neighbors and classmates want what they’ve got. The price tags on the poster are a nice touch, even if they make me feel bad about myself: I can’t keep up with a $1,500 leather jacket. Things get complicated when Duchovny’s character begins wanting to play house with his boss (Moore) and a real-life drama threatens to blow their cover. A clever plot and the first pairing of Duchovny and Moore (as a sarcastic, submissive smartass and a domineering tease) — I’m in. You?

Anyone else surprised to see the new poster for When in Rome, the Kristen Bell-Josh Duhamel rom-com in theaters Jan. 19, touting that it’s “From the studio that brought you The Proposal“? Don’t get me wrong: I liked The Proposal and understand why name-dropping it after the year Sandra Bullock has had could be smart. But real movie fans know that kind of “From the…” tout is typically reserved for directors, producers, and writers — the people who are truly hands-on — not studios that bring you all kinds of films. In the case of Touchstone, the live-action/adult-focused division of Disney, that does include recent well-received romantic comedies such as The Proposal and Sweet Home Alabama, but also titles as varied as Apocalypto, Wild Hogs, Step Up, and 2009′s Surrogates.

Am I being too hard on the marketing team? In its defense, Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel aren’t A-list stars, the writers are the duo who penned Old Dogs, and saying that the film’s from Mark Steven Johnson, director of Ghost Rider and Elektra, isn’t going to get them much (though, he also wrote Grumpy Old Men, which would’ve worked on me!).

It’s just that by reaching for “the studio that brought you,” they’ve made me more nervous than if they’d just stayed with the innocuous tagline “Did you ever wish for the impossible?”. Discuss.

This could not be any easier. Leonardo DiCaprio + Christopher Nolan + Mess-With-Your-Mind Thriller Genre = GIVE ME THIS MOVIE NOW. The film is called Inception. It arrives next summer. The teaser poster has hit. My initial reaction:  Between this and DiCaprio’s other psychological thriller Shutter Island, I think Leo has made it his mission to drive us insane next year. 

What do you think of the poster?

Alex O’Loughlin couldn’t very well be shirtless on a poster for The Back-Up Plan, his April 2010 romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez. Could he? And his 50-50 split of the frame with Lopez, who returns to the genre for the first time since 2005′s Monster-in-Law, is actually quite impressive and a fine testament to his loyal female fan base. But would it have been asking too much to see his entire face?