Leonardo DiCaprio compared his Shutter Island character to Willy Wonka, and he might be on to something.

Shutter Island turns ten years old this week, and watching the new 4K Blu-ray, I couldn't help but feel like director Martin Scorsese was showing off. For Scorsese, I'm sure his adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel is more of a love letter to the classic horror of folks like Val Lewton and Alfred Hitchcock, but watching the film today looks like Scorsese strolling into the horror space, casually owning it, and then moving on. Whereas other directors struggle and grasp to find a way to do psychological horror, Scorsese basically does it as a one-off, …

Exactly 10 years ago, duly-appointed U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels was in search of a woman. Teddy, a man wearing the burdens of his past in his furrowed brow and hunched shoulders, needed to locate an escape patient named Rachel Solando like his life depended on it. And, to a certain degree, his life was depending on something — but it wasn't finding Rachel. Over the course of all 138 minutes of Shutter Island, we saw just how tenuous the narratives Teddy had constructed to maintain control over his version of reality were. [caption id="attachment_871429" align="alignright" width="…

Shutter Island is Martin Scorsese's mind-bending thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio. These are films you'll love if that was your kind of movie.

2010 was a tough year to be married to Leonardo DiCaprio. In Christopher Nolan's Inception, DiCaprio tried to plant an idea into Cillian Murphy's brain while being haunted by visions of his dead wife Marion Cotillard. And in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, DiCaprio tried to solve a mysterious case on a psychiatric hospital while being haunted by visions of his dead wife Michelle Williams. While Nolan's mind-bending exploration of marital trauma has since been released on 4K Blu-ray, now it's time for Scorsese's vision to get its due. In celebration of its …