This week in the cinema, we ended up watching From Paris With Love, a French film which surprisingly looks like an American film. Kind of like Belgian director Erik van Looy did with De zaak Alzheimer but by even going one step further and replacing the French actors with well-known American actors, John Travolta in this case.

This week's film was Shutter Island the new Scorsese flick starring Leo DiCaprio. It's a story of an insane asylum in the 1950s housing only the US' most dangerous criminals. Until somebody goes missing...

Seems somebody has started cleaning out their basement, found Mel Gibson, dusted him off and put him on the big screen again as Thomas Craven in Edge of Darkness a ruthless thriller about murder and conspiracy.

The second film I've seen this year is another long-anticipated start of a new franchise: Sherlock Holmes. From director Guy Ritchie, and starring Robert Downey Jr. as the detective, you'd expect a salvo of English jokes and lots of punches, and that is exactly what you get.

I've yet again collected some backlog in blogging about the films I've watched, so it's time to start doing some overdue work. The first film I've watched this year was none other than Avatar, more specifically the 3D version. I only have one word for this film: Fantastic.

It's the last day of the year again, and while preparing for the annual celebration, it's also time to review the last 365 days. As last year, it's time to review the entertainment industry in 2009.

This week, we ended up watching The Box, which turns out to be the creepiest film I've seen in years. It's not really my style, but it certainly deserves credit for that.

It seems that the fall of 2009 is a bit of a slow period in films, as there are not really big hit films that you know are going to be good (at least up to a certain point, as can be expected from Hollywood). However, there was one film that was massively hyped and therefore should be watched: 2012. Boy, was that a dissapointment...

This week's film was Surrogates, which tells us the story of a not so distant future where people no longer leave their homes, but instead live their life through robotic surrogates.

Note to my English speaking readers: As this week's film review as about a Flemish film, this post will be in Dutch. Don't let this stop you to watch The Misfortunates as it is called in English, as it is one of the best films of the year.

Deze week stond, bij wijze van hoge uitzondering (uiteraard), een Vlaamse film geprogrammeerd: De Helaasheid der Dingen, gebaseerd op het gelijknamige boek van Dimitri Verhulst. De film komt door zijn rauwe echtheid in de buurt van het summum der Belgische films, maar zal helaas nooit een echt kassucces worden.