It is the final season of Martin Scorsese‘s Boardwalk Empire, and as the HBO Prohibition drama comes to an end, the director is looking to continue his working relationship with the cable channel by turning one of his directorial efforts into a televised series.

Deadline reports that Scorsese’s feature film Shutter Island is being developed into a television series titled Ashcliffe. The series will be written by novelist/screenwriter Dennis Lehane – who wrote the original novel – with both Scorsese and the film’s star Leonardo DiCaprio on board as executive producers. The plan is to get Scorsese to direct the pilot. Hit the jump to learn more about the series.

Trying to figure out the themes that the 2010 year in cinema gave to us is not a hard task at all. If anything, this year’s best films had an irrepressible surge that impelled them all toward themes focusing on alienation, instability, conformity, and deception, all different routes that lead to the same destination: at an arrival of self-discovery.

Below are my picks for the Top 30 films of 2010, all of which, in one way or another, had characters that had to confront the danger that was permeating their existence, as a bullfighter bravely confronts an oncoming bull. This confrontational theme knew of no cinematic boundaries. It hit hard in Toy Story 3 and The Kids Are All Right just as hard as it did in Winter’s Bone and Black Swan. It did not matter if Andy had to confront college or if Nina had to pierce a deep wound into her own being just so an answer could be derived. All characters in all 30 films were just as much bothered with universal issues as they were with personal demons. King’s Speech demonstrates this as King George VI has to face WWII and his stammering issue. And the directors of these films did not revile such themes, as they satisfyingly indulged in them by creating unwelcoming atmosphere fostering trite and brutal themes and making them into something glowingly artistic.

Here are my picks for the best films of 2010:

Every day, Amazon offers up “Lightning Deals,” limited quantities of various products for a discounted price for a 4-hour window of time. You have to be on the lookout for these deals and once the item runs out within that four hours, the sale is over. Meaning, if you see something on sale that you want, buy it immediately before it’s gone.

Today being Cyber Monday, Amazon has a load of Lightning Deals coming up today for Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray. See list of today’s deals here below, along with more information on how these special deals work.

There’s also TONS of extremely low prices and great deals on DVDs and Blu-rays right now, so visit the CYBER MONDAY DEALS page to see the wide selection, like the Lord Of The Rings DVDs for $3.99 each and Blu-rays for $7.99 each; Harry Potter DVDs for $5.99 each and Blu-rays for $10 each; and much, much more!

Also, Amazon’s Blu-ray box set deal of the week is the Firefly: The Complete Series Blu-ray Edition for only $25 (that’s 72% off the list price of $89.99). This deal is valid only for this week through December 4, 2010.

The Video On Demand deal of the day is Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas for only 99 cents for a 48-hour rental. Deal is good for today only.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2010

4:40 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. PST

Dollhouse: Season One
Blu-ray – $9.99

Home Alone Collection
Blu-ray – $14.99

Jen marvels at The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Vactor dreams of Inception. All the while queen of the podcast, Eve Of Doom, checks out The Losers. The geeks are joined for this special double episode by Hunter Camp from the Gotham Central and Comics of Doom podcasts to discuss Shutter Island.

Check out Episode 3 of the Flix of Doom podcast, the official movie podcast of Geeks of Doom, where the hosts discuss the new Christopher Nolan film Inception and take a look at Leonardo DiCaprio‘s career, along with this week’s box office and movie news.

Full Episode Guide is here below, along with player.

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Shutter Island
DVD | Blu-ray
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
Warner Bros Home Video
Release date: June 8, 2010

Martin Scorsese‘s foray into violent territories has been characterized by blood, weapons, extreme wealth and more blood. Working with these characteristics he managed to use them to help mold his image of Man, using them as instruments to inflict pain upon Man in the process. Scorsese has become synonymous, as we have all come to know, with violence and gangster qualities, leading him to produce unequivocal masterpieces. But, surprisingly, he works at equal competence when he displays Man as a helpless entity, one who suppresses his true feelings and, as in Shutter Island, one succumbing to psychological occurrences that are far beyond his collective knowledge.

These themes undoubtedly occur throughout most of Scorsese’s pictures but the way he delves into the psychological depths of an individual’s mind, which has nothing but contempt and regret regarding his past, in his new film, brings out a baroque like menace which we haven’t seen in Scorsese before. Shutter Island is an immersive movie nightmare that rises above the thriller genre, emancipating itself from the mundane conventions of such films so it can blossom into a piece of art that is dreadful, ghastly and surreal.