Trying to fashion a review for Shutter Island using my normal approach is going to prove very difficult, because I’m willing to bet good money that your enjoyment or disgust of this flick will hinge entirely on a third act revelation that can absolutely not be discussed without spoiling the whole story.

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Joe Johnston’s updated take on The Wolfman is several steps in the right direction, hampered by one glaring flaw. It’s not a horror movie.

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If you’re one of those folks who believes a movie needs to be “good” (i.e. well thought out, possessing some sort of socially redeeming quality or perhaps just a certain level of cogency) in order to be worth your time, feel free to click BACK on your browser now because Legion is most definitely not a good movie.

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Browsing the top demo downloads on Xbox Live I found Dark Void sitting sadly between Madden’s latest foray into football and Army of Two’s second attempt at a co-op friendly, fist-bump simulator. With no knowledge of what to expect from the blandly named “Dark Void” I thought I’d take it for a spin. It was after my second go-round that I realized a few simple substitutions would result in a title I would be proud to call The Rocketeer.

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If you’ve all but given up on the vampire sub-genre, hold on for a little longer and give Daybreakers a try. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s an entertaining story with an intriguing premise. It’s not perfect, but there’s plenty of grue and absolutely no adolescent angst to be found.

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After throwing my thirteen dollars to James Cameron’s latest pile of billions, I can safely say that while it most assuredly lives up to the visual hype, as an actual story it leaves a helluva lot to be desired.

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Guy Ritchie is certainly taking a few liberties with Doyle’s famed detective, though it’s not nearly as many as one might guess despite the rock ‘em, sock ‘em nature of the trailers. In short, I have absolutely no idea how close or far this movie is from the source material, but I do know that I enjoyed it for the most part.

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When it was announced that the Mouse House was coming out with a new, mostly hand drawn feature, I was eager to check it out and even willing to overlook the presence of the word “Princess” in the title. I gotta tell ya, methinks The Princess and The Frog belongs right up there with the likes of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King.

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