Toys and board games are sweeping through Hollywood as the next big marketable properties, and the optimistically named HIT Entertainment has landed themselves a doozy. He's Thomas the Tank Engine, the cherub-faced locomotive who pulls cars around the English countryside and chats up his similarly smiley-faced (or frowny-faced) colleagues in his successful TV series and omnipresent toy line. Thomas has had model-scale movie adventures before, but we're curious how it might translate to a live-action-mixed-with-CGI adaptation, so we looked to some of the great "train" movies to see if they would have been improved with the addition of Thomas' smiling face.

Before you go to see this feel-good romp about a girl who discovers roller derby and first love in the same week, there are a few things you should know about Whip It! (Exclamation theirs. I would have gone with an ellipsis.)

Two hipsters take a road trip while a young girl takes a long walk in a strange land. Monsters fight aliens, Superman teams up with Batman, dogs and cats living together... Mass hysteria! Welcome to Tuesday.

Admittedly I should have been more skeptical about this remake from the get-go, but Debbie Allen's enthusiasm about it on So You Think You Can Dance coupled with my obsession with movies about dancing and or singing, caused me to be naively hopeful about it. That goodwill only lasted about a third of the way through the movie.

In Bruce Willis' new film, he plays a cop who has a robotic duplicate. But looking at the duplicate's goofy hair and stony expression, we have to wonder -- haven't we seen this robot before? Willis has gone through a lot of different looks and personalities in his movies, which makes us wonder how many of them were the real Bruce and how many were simply surrogates. Check out our handy guide to the many acting robots of Bruce Willis, and see exactly which model you've been cheering on all these years.

Could Woody Harrelson be the best thing about Zombieland? Hard to believe, right? After all, when was Woody Harrelson the best thing about any movie? It's been a while. And to say that he may be the best thing in a movie about a zombie infestation... well that either says great things about his performance or bad things about your zombie movie. Omar and Pablo Gallaga are only going by what they see in the trailer, but that trailer shows them some wacky slapstick, a lot of Zach Snyder-esque slo-mo scenes and a fun, zombie-killing Harrelson, and they're calling it like they see it. Check out their newest video in "Trailers Without Pity" to see why Shaun of the Dead shouldn't be worried, even if zombie fans should.

For many Highlander fans, there can be only one. The 1986 original, with its Queen soundtrack and Clancy Brown as the villainous Kurgen, is considered a classic, while its sequels... not so much. Besides being a blatant screed against global warming, Highlander 2 ridiculously gave the franchise a sci-fi twist and revived and rejuvenated its dead or aging characters, and the films went downhill from there. Now that Summit Entertainment is developing a remake with Fast and Furious director Justin Lin and Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, I feel an obligation to give them a few tips to prevent their new franchise from going down the same road as the original.

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.

As everyone knows, board games are the new hot properties in Hollywood. They have name recognition, there's usually a copy in half the households in America, and there's usually a hint of a plot to kick things off with. So while Warner Bros. is still trying to figure out what to do with their A-list superheroes, toymaker Hasbro has used the success of the toy-based G.I. Joe and Transformers films to turn their greatest-hits home games into movies with Universal Pictures. Here's a list of the games that will get movies, and the games we want to see on the big screen.

For Steven Soderbergh's The Informant!, Matt Damon plays biochemist Mark Whitacre, a whistleblower at a food additives company. Given a picture of Damon in the role, with his prosthetic nose and mustache and the 30 pounds he gained for the role, and that bare outline of a plot, one could easily mistake the movie for The Insider, the Russell Crowe tobacco-industry drama that earned nominations for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture in 2000. And while this movie is (mostly) a wacky comedy, don't be surprised if it replicates that nomination spread, and maybe even takes one home this time. Because while wacky, the based-on-true-events story and Damon's alternately understated and over-the-top performance may just have the humorous edge on Michael Mann's gloomy-gus exposé.