If you like TV on DVD then this just might be your dream week. We have all sorts of huge shows hitting us with season-long box sets this week. We’re talking super huge. Like Urkel huge. Plus the entire series of a show that may or may not have a movie coming out based on it. I can’t be to sure, I don’t watch TV, or go to the movies, or go on websites, or look at billboards.

Plus, there’s a little movie by somebody named Martin Scorsese. Never heard of him, but I think the kid’s got promise.

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Yet again, despite everyone’s gripes about Shutter Island not being “Scorsese enough” for them, it managed to lead the box office pack by over $4 million. The only two newbies on the list this week, Cop Out and The Crazies, both odd medium sized films, managed to rake in about half of what they cost to make. Although Bruce Willis didn’t manage to come in at #1 he did prove to us yet again that he could get a mindless comedy about very little to make nearly $20 million. Not bad my friend…

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No surprises here, Scorsese and DiCaprio pair up and people will pay to see it. They’d pay $12 to see the two eat dinner. Although Shutter Island was not as “Scorsese” as some people may have expected, it didn’t disappoint and showed that the director still has some new tricks up his sleeve. Sadly, The Ghost Writer, which was almost the same movie, just with Polanksi and Ewan McGregor (another great duo) was only released into four theaters and therefore only made about $200k. Hopefully it will become more available in the coming weeks. Aside from that, Wolfman seems to be flying down the charts faster than an Olympic snowboarder flying down a mountain. Poor Wolfy…

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If there is one thing for certain, it’s that Leonardo DiCaprio gives one hell of a dramatic performance in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. Although when looking at some of the photos of DiCapri’s reactiion from the film out of context, it’s hard not to snicker. So, we’ve decided to create a collection of some of our favorite photos highlighting Leo’s most unusual yet hilarious “face performances”

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If there is one thing all the movies coming out this week have in common it’s psychological thrillers with large amounts of talent in each one. What’s bigger than a Martin Scorsese movie starring his muse, one of the hottest actors to play in a film, Leonardo DiCaprio? Shutter Island also boosts a supporting cast of big names like Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley and Michelle Williams, all proven talents in their own right. Then, there’s the other thriller, Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski starring, Ewan McGregor, in a story about (you guessed it) a ghost writer hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister. This film co-stars Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson and James Belushi.

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After his long awaited Oscar win 3 years ago, Martin Scorsese is back behind the camera in his fourth collaboration with his muse Leonardo DiCaprio with Shutter Island. The film was moved back from its original October 2009 release date, due to various marketing strategies and Leo not being able to do any press tours as he was filming Christopher Nolan’s new film Inception. Is this latest collaboration between the two going to match up to Gangs Of New York, The Aviator and the Oscar-Winning The Departed?

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“I do the best I can with every movie I make”, was the answer given by Mr Scorsese after being called the “Greatest Living Director” at the Shutter Island Press Conference in London — pretty modest I would say. Martin Scorsese is and always will be the one of the greatest directors to ever hit the film industry. With his career spanning nearly 50 years, he has made some of the most beloved cinematic masterpieces ever created, this includes Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, finally winning his overdue Best Director Academy Award in 2007 with The Departed, and now he takes on the psychological thriller, Shutter Island.

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There are celebrities and then there are movie stars — actors that take you back to the days when names like Carey Grant and Ingrid Bergman ran Hollywood leaving no room for the “little guy.” A time before all the paparazzi killed the mystery and turned Hollywood into a reality channel. Certain actors harkens back memories of the movie star, Leonardo DiCaprio is lucky enough to still carry some of that old Hollywood charm and did so at the Shutter Island press conference with Martin Scorsese in London.

He started as, “Leo” a teen heartthrob with dreamy blue eyes but with a number of accomplished dramatic roles over the past decade alongside some of the best directors of the past millennium, he has well established himself more as “Leonardo DiCaprio,” a true actor that takes us back to the good ol’ days and can sell a ticket reading a phonebook.

Despite the tabloids exploiting the few pictures of Leo drinking a Latte, we have a pieces from the press conference with DiCaprio where he talks about his true passion, acting. He walks about taking on the most difficult role of his life, why he’s attracted to such dark roles and what drives him…

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This weekend, the biggest television event of the year will take place, and that means plenty of commercials will be fighting for your attention. As usual several major films have managed to grab a spot during this year’s Super Bowl telecast and Martin Scorsese‘s Shutter Island is one of them. Lucky for us we don’t have to wait until the big game to see what it’s all about, we have the latest trailer right here…

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