It's hard to criticize a horror movie that scares the bejeezus out of you. Clearly, it's done its job. But the new A Nightmare on Elm Street manages to do so in a sleek, stylish way with a bevy of attractive actors and actresses and a bunch of sly teases to the audience, as if to say "You thought we were going to do something scary there, right? Well, we didn't. Instead we're doing it... not here. Nope. But how about HERE? Gotcha!" Knowing that something is coming is half the fun -- and all of the plot -- and Nightmare certainly doesn't disappoint.

In the new movie Harry Brown, Michael Caine plays a retired Royal Marine who sets out to avenge his only friend's death by killing the teenage hooligans who did the job. What follows is a bloody mix of Gran Torino and Death Wish, with Caine staying one step ahead of the ineffectual police as he acquires a gun and begins to work his way through the youths. Now, Caine is often cast as the roguish gentleman and the jolly, working-class type, but this is hardly the first psycho he's played. Luckily, we happen to love psycho Caine, so we thought we'd run down some of his craziest roles.

There's been much talk and speculation about the relaunch of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise -- it may have a lot to do with the replacement of famous Freddy Krueger portrayer Robert Englund with Jackie Earle Haley, and the new, more realistic burn makeup the character sports, but otherwise the movie is pretty similar in premise and execution. But this is not the first time Freddy has been reinvented. In 1994, his creator Wes Craven wrote and directed the seventh installment in the series, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which not only featured new Freddy makeup, but also a new, meta look at the character that would have changed the way we looked at horror films and at movies in general... had anyone actually gone to see it. Although it was the lowest-performing entry in the franchise, and led to a ten-year hiatus, it was the first one to go out on a limb and try to do some things differently. These are just a few of those things.

With Iron Man 2 whipping everyone into a frenzy, and the promise of Thor and The First Avenger: Captain America for 2011, talk has turned to what Marvel movies to put out after The Avengers in 2012. Or even sooner; after all, the movies they're talking about aren't big blockbusters, they're smaller, less expensive films starring lesser-known Marvel characters. The best-case scenario would be 1998's Blade, which spawned a trilogy; the worst would be The Punisher series, or the straight-to-DVD Man-Thing. Of the thousands of Marvel characters in existence, several are being discussed (including sorcerer supreme Dr. Strange and urban hero Luke Cage) and films are already in the works for shrinking Avenger Ant-Man and the villain-spawn Runaways. But there are a ton of superheroes we'd love to see get the big-screen treatment, perhaps with an A-list hero making a cameo appearance. Here are a few that we think have big-screen potential.

Complications have arisen! Namely, that our sunset years are looking less like On Golden Pond and more like a Jennifer Lopez movie. And not Out of Sight, either.

Last weekend's false victory aside, this weekend How to Train Your Dragon really did return to the top of the box office list, its giant, leathery wings overshadowing two middling releases. Four weeks after it opened with $43 million, it still managed to scrounge up $15 million -- enough to make The Back-up Plan, Jennifer Lopez's grand return to movies, come in second place. If only she'd been more leathery! If only!

Usually, nobody gets in to see the Wizard -- not nobody, not no how. But he may make an exception for Robert Downey, Jr. The back-on-top actor is reportedly in talks to play a younger version of the great and powerful Oz, and the story has been burning up the Internet, for at least three reasons we can think of. 1) It's RDJ. 2) It's The Wizard of Oz, which hasn't had a live-action sequel or prequel since 1985's Return to Oz. (Theatrically, anyway. Syfy's Tin Man showed a future Oz.) 3) Just the idea of RDJ as a young charlatan traveling to Oz via hot-air balloon makes us smile. We're so gleeful about it, in fact, that we decided to come up with other Oz prequels we'd like to see, exploring other beloved Oz characters with A-list actors in the roles. Here's our over-the-rainbow wish list.

It's interesting that The Losers and Kick-Ass have come out within one week of each other. Both are comic-book-based films, and neither features superpowers, unless you consider the ability to take a beating a super power. However, both feature crazy, old-fashioned fist and gun violence, usually depicted as a slow-mo ballet that looks like it came out of The Matrix. The Losers takes the violence more seriously, but it only makes the whole film seem all the more ridiculous when the inevitable preposterous scenarios occur that allow them to cheat death and recover from severe injury.

Jennifer Lopez's attempt to revive her career marches on with The Back-up Plan, a movie that strives to shake up the girl-meets-boy formula by having the girl opt for artificial insemination in the movie's very first scene, before embarking on her impossibly unrealistic fairy tale romance. Which is insane, but alright. I've seen and enjoyed crazier. I've seen Crank.

It's Earth Day, and while a large percentage of Americans will be thinking about saving the planet, an equally large percentage will be thinking about leaving it. Those are the ones who will be rushing out to buy the blockbuster sci-fi epic Avatar on Blu-ray or DVD, which releases today instead of on a traditional Tuesday. Living up to the film's ecological themes, the film's studio has promised to plant a million trees around the world, but they've pruned the DVD a bit, as it won't have any special features or bonuses. We talked to the movie's producer, Jon Landau, to find out the thinking behind the release, what we can expect in terms of Avatar DVDs down the road, and what's next for director James Cameron's Titanic.