So... we was watching VCDs

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)

So I saw 'The Last Airbender' (in 3D)

I like to make comparisons because I'm lazy. So here goes: M. Night Shyamalan is the Quentin Tarantino of fantasy.

Consider this imaginary conversation that never was:

Studio brass: "Night, I wanna cash in on the latest fad."
Night: "You're going to make a 3D movie?"
Brass: "Yeah, and guess who's gonna get to write and direct it."
Night: "Me?"
Brass: "Damn right you. Only one catch."
Night: "I don't get to cast Mel?"
Brass: "Damn right you don't, though I was going to say: go nuts."
Night: "The catch is that I've got go nuts? But I always go nuts."
Brass: "Exactly."

And so came to being The Last Airbender 3D, which tells the story of how Aang (a precocious Noah Ringer), a runaway Avatar who has the potential to bend to his will all four elements – Earth, Water, Air, Fire – though he has thus far only mastered Air, ends up in a Waterbender tribe where he meets Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) and his sister Katara (Nicola Peltz), the tribe's last waterbender, before he gets caught by Prince Zuko (an intense Dev Patel) of the warmongering Firebender nation (which considers Aang to be a strategic threat); escapes; learns Water; and eventually accepts his destiny.

I know, right? But if you have your doubts, and mine popped up several times early on during the movie, just remember this: you're in the good hands of Night.

That ought to be enough assurance.

(Running time: 103 minutes)

So I saw 'The Happening'

I'm a fan, perhaps even a follower, of M. Night Shyamalan. He takes these gems of ideas which only sci-fi geeks and nerds would dare touch, and make them work by treating them with strong storylines. In fact, his storylines are so strong, you'd do them more justice using the written word instead of film.

In The Happening Night bases his story on the premise of what if bees disappeared? Here too you'll find some strong storytelling going on.

Not as superior as Signs (2002), but still way up there on the Night scale.

(Running time: 91 minutes)