Because some movies you just have to take home.
Splice (2009)
A modern-day take on Frankenstein's monster as genetic engineers Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) go about playing God only to find out they are not. It starts out as science fiction before segueing into psychological horror as you begin to realize that the whole thing isn't that far-fetched.
(Running time: 104 minutes)
Inception (2010)
Christopher Nolan, I like his style. If he had written Alice in Wonderland, it would've been titled Inception. Watching a Nolan movie makes you feel smarter. You may not necessarily understand the movie, perhaps not during the first viewing, but you feel smarter anyhow. I call this the Nolan Paradox. You heard it here first.
(Running time: 148 minutes)
Devil (2010)
John Erick Dowdle directs based on a whodunit penned by M. Night Shyamalan. I suspect that Dowdle is Night's alias or something as the movie has all of his trademarks. Night's had, perhaps, taken the mickey one time too many, and unfairly so, I might add, simply for having had committed the sin of putting the storytelling back into onscreen stories.
(Running time: 80 minutes)
Hereafter (2010)
The lives of three persons intersect after having had a brush with death in some way, shape or form. Despite the underlying theme the movie is quite uplifting, and riveting as human drama makes for the best stories, and director Clint Eastwood is apparently privy to this. Has the best opening scene ever.
(Running time: 129 minutes)
