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.

As we all know, the summer is filled with typical blockbusters: films that look very nice and are heavily hyped but in the end are pretty much superficial and stupid. Last night, we ended up watching a typical example of a summer blockbuster: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Sadly, it does not really set the tone for the other summer blockbusters, since this one was especially superficial...

It's that time of the month again. Wait, that came out wrong... What I mean of course is that I could once again not be bothered with blogging about the films I've seen recently, so I've got some catching up to do...

A few weeks ago, we went to see the much-hyped 'sequel' to Borat, Brüno. Before starting, let me first rant a little about the title. The film should actually have been called 'Bruno', since the Americans like to pronounce the letter 'ü' (which we all know is normally pronounced as /y/) as /juː/, which is actually written 'u' in German. But that's actually the least of the problems this film has...

We're in some dark times for the Terminator franchise... After Rise of the Machines it was suddenly very quiet about the films, and then James Cameron decided he would not be involved in the film making anymore. Then Arnold was elected governor, and he also announced he will not be able to play the signature T-800 again. Recently, the (surprisingly good) TV show Chronicles has been cancelled and now we're stuck with Christian Bale as John Connor.

Needless to say, I watched Terminator Salvation yesterday. At first I though it wasn't all that bad, but after some reflection it turned out to be a steaming pile of crap.

It's that time of the month again (no, not that time), I've once again accumulated some backlog in blogging about the films I've seen... Two weeks ago, we watched Knowing, or as I like to call it now: Deus ex Machina in reverse.

Sadly, I wasn't around in 1951 when the original version of The Day The Earth Stood Still was released, but even without seeing it, I'm pretty sure it was better than the 2008 version.

With the holiday season and all, I have once again caught a little backlog in writing film reviews... So here is the review of last week's film, which is already almost 2 weeks ago since it is Friday today. Last week, we watched Burn After Reading, which is something I was somewhat excited over, since I have (be it only recently) started becoming a big Coen brothers fan, mostly due to The Big Lebowski. Anyway, the film probably has some very strong points (one, I would say, keep on reading to know which one) but was pretty much disappointing for the rest.

Some weeks ago we saw Death Race, and in fact this is the first time I have some time to blog about it, so I'll be short and frank. Yes, even more than usually.

There's not much to say about Death Race. In the near future, prisoners are given the right to race to the death. The winner, who is the last man standing, gets the ultimate prize: freedom.

Don't expect much of this film, mindless action, lots of testosterone and good looking girls. Combine this with fast cars, blood and almost no story at all, and you get the ultimate brainless action flick. Verdict: 1/5.

This week was another cheapskate week, as it was the first Monday of the month. We chose to go see The Oxford Murders. Something like Murder By Numbers, but in Britain.

Last week was avant-premiere week at Kinepolis, and we chose the film Eagle Eye as our preview of choice. In a few words: a summer blockbuster in autumn.