Emmaleigh R. Hall
The Change-Up Is a Dish Best Served Streaming
The only selling point for The Change-Up for me was Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds being in the same movie. What else was needed? I have seen Freaky Friday – both the Jodie Foster and Lindsay Lohan versions – a million times, and the “I wish I had your life switch” is by no means [...]
If You Love Smurfs, You’ll Like The Smurfs Movie
Who didn’t grow up on The Smurfs? When I was a little girl, Papa Smurf was my hero, with his wisdom and caring for the other Smurfs, and Vanity made me laugh with his, well, vanity. Throw in Neil Patrick Harris, and The Smurfs ended up being the one movie I couldn’t miss this summer. [...]
Friends with Benefits – movie review
Romantic comedies are a guilty pleasure of mine. Granted, as a female, I feel like it’s expected that I love the genre, but I still don’t like to admit it. I dredge through every cliched film Hollywood throws at me, secretly enjoying the camp and the predictability of it all. Friends with Benefits maintains the [...]
Winnie the Pooh – movie review
I personally don’t know anybody who doesn’t like Winnie the Pooh. While most people were out watching the other movie franchise that was released this weekend, I wanted to give that “tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff” some love. Winnie the Pooh was just as charming as one might expect. Most of the favorites [...]
Horrible Bosses – movie review
There were two reasons I really wanted to watch Horrible Bosses. The first is, of course, Jason Bateman. The second reason is that everyone has had a really horrible boss. I had one that used to make me cry like it was a game–just a total jerk. It was a comedy I could relate to [...]
Monte Carlo – movie review
Everyone has a guilty pleasure. Mine currently is Wizards of Waverly Place, so I’m a bit of a Selena Gomez fan. I liked her in Ramona and Beezus, and I decided on a guilty pleasure treat with Monte Carlo. I really didn’t find it to be a treat, but one little girl in the audience [...]
Bad Teacher – Movie Review
My favorite kind of movies are comedies – not that shocking, I like to laugh. Bad Teacher looked to be one of the better comedies that had been out in a while. It stars Cameron Diaz, who I think is quite funny in general, Jason Segel, who I think everyone thinks is quite funny, and [...]
Mr. Popper’s Penguins: Predictably Pleasant – movie review
I’m a pretty big fan of Jim Carrey – I even like The Cable Guy. Mr. Popper’s Penguins looked like it’d be a cute movie that added penguins to the Jim Carrey formula. It did just that, but there were a few things about the movie that left me wondering “what was wrong with that?” [...]
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer IS a Summer Bummer
When I was a kid, I always had “bummer” summers. I was happy to be out of school, but every day was melting, we rarely went anywhere or did anything, and we didn’t even have cable. I could empathize with Judy Moody, and on my quest to find movies that are wholesome for my youngest [...]
X-Men: First Class Cast Mutates Beautifully – movie review
X-Men is the whole reason I love comic books. I was a big fan of the 90s animated series when I was a kid, and that got me into the comic books. There is no medium that I haven’t seen X-Men in, and it’s my favorite comic book movie franchise. There was only one thing [...]
The Hangover Part II Is a Night to Remember – movie review
My interest in The Hangover franchise started with a traffic jam in October 2008. Do you know what happens when a movie has clearance to close part of a freeway to film a scene, but the city in which the closure occurs isn’t properly notified and has less than a day’s notice to set up [...]
Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides Sails on Winds of Hype – movie review
I love Johnny Depp, but the last Pirates of the Carribean movie I sort of liked was the second one, Dead Man’s Chest. After At World’s End left me thoroughly disappointed, I was slightly skeptical about watching the newest installment, On Stranger Tides. When sequels start to get bad, they rarely get any better, after [...]
