This is M. Night Shyamalan's latest, and I'm over M. Night Shyamalan. I will not be swayed nor inspired by an action/visual effects filled trailer. Shyamalan hasn't told a good story since "Signs," and I have a bad feeling the movie is going to have too many shots of wind blowing, just like his last crappy movie ("The Happening").

This is the ad that will run during the Super Bowl pre-game show around 6 p.m. The movie opens July 2, 2010.

Is it worth $10? No

“From Paris With Love” goes from the utterly ridiculous to the absurd, but it’s done with a sense of gleeful fun that makes it thoroughly enjoyable. Sure, the story is all over the place and complete nonsense, but darn if John Travolta and the action don’t make the movie work.

Read Dan's full review here.

Is it worth $10? No

Weepy tearjerker movies can be a tough watch, especially for guys who lack the patience or inclination to indulge in melodrama. I do my best to not be one of those guys, and because of that I can say that “Dear John” was viewed with an open mind and an open heart. And it still wasn’t very good.

Read Dan's full review here.

I'm not sure if we needed a sequel to "Wall Street" (1987), but it should be fun to watch Michael Douglas bite into Gordon Gekko again. Let's hope Oliver Stone has something interesting to say re: big biz in the Internet age, and that the rumored return of Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is more than a scant cameo. The film opens April 23, 2010.

James Cameron has done it again.

"Avatar" is now the highest grossing domestic film of all-time, as it has earned $601.1 million in 47 days to surpass Cameron's "Titanic" and take the top spot. By comparison, "Titanic" (which obviously didn't benefit from hiked-up 3-D admission prices), earned $600.8 million in 252 days. Box Office Mojo has a more detailed breakdown here.        

Like him or hate him, think he's an arrogant tyrant or darn good filmmaker (or both), you have to respect what Cameron has accomplished. Sure, his dialogue is terrible, but his ability as a director to build and maintain suspense is truly admirable. And visually, it's not an exaggeration to say "Titanic" was impressive and "Avatar" is truly unlike anything we've seen before.

The above photo shows Cameron on the "Avatar" set with one of his inventions for the film, a virtual camera. This camera gave him the unprecedented ability to see an actor's CG character - and the CG environments - in the camera. For example, Sam Worthington (Jake) and Zoe Saldana (Neytiri) may have been wearing body suits while standing against a green screen, but Cameron was able to see Pandora and ten-foot tall Na'vi when looking through the camera. Very cool stuff indeed.

"Tron" has gone from this

To this.

Add it to the list of '80s classics that have been bastardized by Hollywood remakes. Maybe it will be good, but even the remake of "Fame" has doubts about this one. The film, which will be in 3-D, opens Dec. 17, 2010. 

A complete list of Oscar nominees is below. There's plenty of time for picking winners between now and March 7, so I've included some contenders who got left out in the big categories.

Best Picture

• “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
• “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined
• “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
• “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
• “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined
• “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
• “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
• “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
• “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

Snubbed? What happened to "Star Trek"? The expansion to ten nominees was supposed to mean more fan favorites, and "Star Trek" did great at the box office and was a critical darling. For shame.

Director

• “Avatar” James Cameron
• “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
• “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels
• “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman

Snubbed? Where are the Coen Bros. for "A Single Man"? The Academy loves them, and I think it's the best film they've made.

Actor

• Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
• George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
• Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
• Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
• Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker"

Snubbed? This is a solid five, but it would have been nice to see Ben Foster from "The Messenger" recognized.

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Beth isn't necessarily bad at love, but love is bad with her. Flustered with her younger sister (Alexis Dziena) getting married in Rome, career girl New Yorker Beth (Kristen Bell) enters a Roman fountain of love and takes a handful of coins, believing she's sparing those who desire love from inevitable heartache.

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Tom Craven no longer gives a damn. His daughter – his world – is gone, and as we’ve learned in “Death Wish” and “Taken,” vigilante heroes will break any law and bear any burden for the pleasure of revenge. That “Edge of Darkness” gets us to care about Tom, and root for him through decent action scenes and a suspenseful storyline, is our pleasure. 

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