Recently, at the Cannes film festival, Wall Street 2 star Shia LaBeouf gave an interview in which he criticized two of his previous films: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. We say "Bravo, Mr. Beef" -- both movies were awful, and while we kind of expected it of the former, the latter's goofy action and CGI made fans of the original Indy films cry. But while LaBeouf's criticism of TF director Michael Bay comes with its own risks -- he does like blowing stuff up, Shia, and you are making another movie with him -- the actor's criticism of Spielberg is even more shocking. Crystal Skull may be a stinker, but Spielberg is a major power player in Hollywood, and somewhat of a legend. But when you're right, you're right. Here's a list of other things people should feel comfortable saying to Mr. Spielbergo.

Since you all are soooo looking forward to a third Transformers movie (What will blow up this time? Will Shia LaBeouf meet robot God again? Tell us!), we thought we'd help share a particularly sexy bit of casting news: Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey will appear in TF3 as Megan Fox's boss. (Presumably, he's not also a transforming robot, but we've learned never to assume.) Now, the Transformers and Grey's Anatomy may not seem like a logical connection, but there's actually more than meets the eye here than just a cheap grab for more female audience members. No, Dempsey is perfect for the franchise, and here are five reasons why.

Many of the franchise's most passionate fans are fine leaving it as-is, but despite that, we're getting a Die Hard 5 anyway, and this time, we're going global. Which could mean anything, most likely something resembling an old, grizzled Bourne movie, and depending on when it comes out, it could be the Armageddon to the 24 movie's Deep Impact. It's superfluous, but it's not the end of the world. That doesn't mean it's not extremely easy to screw up, however (especially with the guy behind Swordfish, Hitman, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine in talks to write the script). Here's how to avoid that (besides not hiring that guy).

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.

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.

When we heard that plans were in the works for two sequels to the sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day, both starring Will Smith, one thought crossed our minds: How will they abbreviate it? The original was inexplicably shortened to "ID4," so the next one would be, what, "ID4:2"? "ID4B"? "ID5"? Then we realized, who said it had to take place on the Fourth of July? After all, what are the odds that a battle with aliens would take place on the same day of the year twice in a row, let alone three times? Slim to none. However, to maintain the appropriate level of patriotic fervor, it's gonna have to take place on some sort of patriotic holiday. After all, how else will we convince the rest of the world to celebrate our holidays unless aliens attack on them? Here are our suggestions for some red, white and blue sequels.

When we saw the headline "Universal taking another Midnight Run," we were instantly appalled at the idea of a remake of the 1988 road movie starring Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter (apprehending an accountant played by Charles Grodin). Then we saw that it was going to be a sequel, and that De Niro would be reprising his role, and that it was his idea, and our disgust quickly turned to confusion. Does Midnight Run really need a sequel? Especially starring a 67-year old De Niro? We're not saying it'll definitely be terrible -- in fact, we can think of seven other De Niro films where a sequel would be a bigger travesty than whatever Another Midnight Run turns out to be. Little Fockers will be pretty awful, but these are the ones that signal Ragnarok.

Four action-movie franchises have been in the news recently with good news -- all of them will be getting new installments in the near future. Daredevil, Riddick, Superman and Mission: Impossible's Ethan Hunt will all be returning to work, and they all have some big decisions to make. Besides M:I, which already reinvents itself stylistically with every film, they're all coming off of what could have been franchise-killing movies, so they're all going to have to follow M:I's lead. Here's some advice to the producers on what we want to see in each potential re-boot.

Jon Favreau must really like AC/DC. Or, more likely, the band's blistering guitar rock, violent lyrics and electrically inspired name simply make them perfect candidates to provide the entire soundtrack to Iron Man 2. Rockers providing soundtracks is nothing new, but rather than featuring all-new songs, like Queen did for Highlander and Daft Punk is doing for Tron, the AC/DC soundtrack will be a "greatest hits" collection, including some of their best-known anthems from as far back as 1976. (The promo video is set to 1980's "Shoot to Thrill.") With this in mind, we looked at other tentpole films slated for this year and picked the bands (and solo artists) with suitable back catalogs to provide all of the music for each movie.

If you didn't see today's movie DVD releases in the theaters, don't worry -- you didn't miss much. In fact, most of these movies are best enjoyed on DVD, for both financial and multi-tasking reasons. Put them on in the background as you crochet and/or drink.