CRANKY SEZ:  One week at a time, folks. One at a time.

WEEKEND TOP TEN: With a solid command at the boxoffice, Marvel's The Avengers ($103 millions/ $373 millions) hold the top position for a second week, trouncing newcomer Dark Shadows ($28.8 millions) by a three to one margin. Think Like a Man ($6.3 millions/ $81.9 millions), The Hunger Games ($4.4 millions/ $386.9 millions), The Lucky One ($4 millions/ $53.7 millions) round out the Top Five. THE REST OF THE BEST: The Pirates! Band of Misfits ($3.2 millions/ $23.1 millions), The Five-Year Engagement ($3.1 millions/ $24.3 millions), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ($2.6 millions/ $3.7 millions), Chimpanzee ($1.6 millions/ $25.9 millions, Girl in Progress ($1.3 millions) complete the Top Ten.

WALLPAPER DOWNLOADS: Dark Shadows and Battleship joins the list of heroic wallpapers . . . Yeah, The Avengers papers aren't going away nor are Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Captain America. And did we mention The Dark Knight Rises?

TRAILERS: The best line in the new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises is . . . "This isn't a car." Can The Dark Knight Rises trump the billion dollar box office take of The Avengers? We'll see. More trailer links below.

Dark Shadows stars Johnny Depp in a Tim Burton re-envisionment of a TV soap opera. Depp is great but all the support elements are so underdeveloped the film is just a sloppy mess. Cranky's movie review

For those that don't want to wait in line to have their minds blown, consider this: The first four words of our review of Bernie will be the most controversial we've ever written:

Oscar to Jack Black.

Seriously. To say the film redefines passive/ aggressive behavior would require too much explanation. Just see the movie. Cranky's movie review

If you must, close your eyes when you watch Think Like A Man, the funniest movie we've seen so far this year. Yes the ad campaign makes the film look Afro-centric . . . we almost fell victim to that thinking but, thankfully, didn't. A tale of four friends, one whose divorce is almost final and three seeking out their own perfect mate, this loose adaptation of a book by comedian Steve Harvey may follow the "how to write a screenplay" template too closely but it is funny enough that we didn't care. The film takes on the question "how do you land a mate?" and answers it from both sides of the male/female equation. We watched. We enjoyed. We spent an entire day looking for production notes 'cuz it's expected that we explain most of the story in the review but those notes don't seem to exist anywhere. Even on the press site with tons of cast interviews and other material, none of which are of any use to yours Cranky. For once, all the other critics are holding to embargo rules so I can't even steal that info until tomorrow. So go see this movie. Period.

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