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Easy A (2010)

The past few year Emma Stone has been hard at work making a name for herself in Hollywood. She played in Superbad, Paper Man and Zombieland. With Easy A she gets the chance to show if she has enough talent to carry the weight of a whole movie.
In Easy A she’s Olive Penderghast, a normal girl who spends a lot of time with her friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) and does ok at school. Rhiannon’s parents are a bit weird and when they invite Olive to join them for a weekend in the country she tells Rhiannon that she can’t go as she has a date.

After the weekend Rhiannon ask her about the date and whether or not she slept with the guy. Olive decides to lie about it and confirms that she has. She doesn’t know that Marianne (Amanda Bynes) is listening in and it only takes a few minutes before everyone at school knows about it. It’s the first time that Olive is the center of attention. Continue reading →

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Due Date (2010)

Visiting a movie theatre is not what is used to be. There once was a time where you could just buy a ticket, get your refreshments and wait for the doors to open, no more. It seems that visiting a cinema needs to be an “experience”. At least that was what I found out when visiting to see this movie.

The theatre I go to (called Pathé) has special Ladies nights, which I was not aware of. It’s quite succesful as most of the people walking around were actually women. To cater to these women they were selling clothing, makeup etcetera and a lot of women were buying. It was something I was not prepared for. After finally managing to get through the crowd it was time to watch Due Date, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. Continue reading →

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I’m Still Here (2010)

How much pleasure do you get out of watching a train wreck? That’s the first question I thought of after watching this documentary (not even thinking about the discussions whether or not this is real). My answer to this question? “None whatsoever”. Joaquin Phoenix, a succesful actor (Gladiator, Walk the Line, We Own The Night, The Yards), decides to give up acting and focus on starting his music career by becoming a rapper. This journey is filmed by his brother-in-law Casey Affleck, who followed him everywhere. Continue reading →

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Monsters (2010)

Set in the future, Monsters tells the story of a NASA spacecraft that took some samples from another planet, but crashed in Mexico after re-entering the atmosphere. The impact on Mexico is big because after a while new lifeforms start to appear. The problem is so big that half of Mexico is labeled as infected zone. To make sure the creatures don’t spread out, America has built a big fence around the zone and tries to fight the monsters and kill them all (without much success). During some seasons there are more of them around and it is dangerous to travel, with parts of Mexico cut off from the rest of the world.

Andrew Kaulder (Scoot McNairy, who starred in In search of a Midnight Kiss ) is a photographer on assignment. He has to try to take a picture of the creatures. When he calls his boss to inform him about progress he is told to pick up his daughter (Whitney Able) from the hospital and to escort her to the coast where she will be able to safely travel home. He’s doesn’t really want to do it, but has no choice in the matter and listens to his boss. Continue reading →

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The American (2010)

Anton Corbijn is one of Holland’s best photographers. He has done a lot of work for bands like Depeche Mode and U2, taking pictures and making videos. As for movies, he already made Control , a movie about Ian Curtis. Now he’s back in the director’s chair in a return to the silver screen with The American. The movie tells the story of American Hitman Jack (George Clooney). After an unexpected situation in Sweden he leaves the country and ends up in a little village in Italy, where he receives a very easy assignment. Continue reading →

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

Those that have read my Youth in Revolt review know that I really had it with Michael Cera. Not because he’s a bad actor, but because he seems to be playing the same character in each movie he does, which is the role of an insecure teenager (although he’s already 22), who’s very clumsy and despite that manages to get with the girl of his dreams. It’s a shame he’s being typecast, because I think he’s capable of playing different roles. Does Scott Pilgrim vs. the World give Cera the opportunity to show another side of his range as an actor? Yes and no. Continue reading →

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Get Him to the Greek (2010)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was a comedy which I really liked (I gave it a 9 and have seen it several times). In that movie Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) was the extremely annoying new boyfriend that Sarah was dating, a rocker who just said what he thought. Get Him to the Greek is a Forgetting Sarah Marshall spinoff, focussing on Aldous Snow.
Aaron Green (Jonah Hill, who’s playing a different character as he did in Forgetting Sarah Marshall deed) works at a record company. The sales of Aldous Snow’s music are exteremely low and Aaron suggests to organise a concert by Snow in L.A.’s Greek theater to repeat a succesfull show he had there exactly ten years before to stimulate sales.
His boss, Sergio Roma (a very funny Sean Combs), thinks it’s a great idea and orders Aaron to fly to England to get Aldous Snow and make sure that he travels to L.A. (without any problems) to do the show. Aaron has no idea what he has gotten himself into. Continue reading →

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Green Zone (2010)

With the Bourne trilogy Matt Damon has proved (together with director Paul Greengrass) that he is a versatile actor that is also excellent in action movies. Greengrass and Damon teamed up again to make Green Zone. They’ve chosen Iraq, shortly after the invasion by the US, as backdrop for their story. Is Green Zone “Jason Bourne in the Middle East” or does the movie manage to create its own identity?