Does it even matter what opens in theaters this weekend? Next weekend's "The Dark Knight" is what everyone seems to be talking about. And for good reason. Posthumous Heath Ledger Oscar rumors aside, "Dark Knight" features the best Batman we've seen (Christian Bale) and it opens locally in IMAX.

Here's the first review I've seen out there on it. A Wall Street Jounral blogger gives you "Ten resons to love 'The Dark Knight.'" I won't go that far (mainly because I haven't seen it) but I am looking forward to it.

If you are going to the movies this weekend, your options include "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."

"Journey" is showing locally in Real D 3D, but prehistoric creatures flying over your head in the theater might not be enough to make up for Brendan Fraser.

I'm going to think about "Hellboy" instead. Sure, it's a violent comic book adaptation with a bizarro red-skinned giant as the lead. But it comes from the twisted brain of Guillermo del Toro, whose "Pan's Labyrinth" was one of my favorite movies in 2006.

"Hellboy" is no "Pan's Labyrinth," but it looks like just the right big, dumb fun to tide me over until "The Dark Knight."