Easy A

Easy A (2010)
Starring: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, and Amanda Bynes
Directed by: Will Gluck
Tagline: Let's not and say we did.
Grade: A+

This movie really surprised me. I had never seen Emma Stone before this (I saw this before Zombieland) and she is awesome. The movie sounds kind of slutty (and it kind of is) even though she doesn't actually do anything. Olive (Stone) is a girl with a really good reputation. To avoid further abuse from her best friend (Alyson Michalka), she tells her that she "did it" with a mysterious guy (who isn't real). She and her friend's conversation is overheard by the most popular girl in school (Bynes) and Olive is quickly branded as a slut. She then decides that her life kind of parallels the novel The Scarlet Letter, so she decides to sew a letter A on her shirts and start helping nerdy guys by letting them lie about doing it with her. But, she eventually learns that being popular for being sleazy is not the same as being popular.

Movie Review: Big Fat Liar

Big Fat Liar (2002)
Starring: Frankie Muniz and Paul Giamatti
Characters: Jason Shepherd and Marty Wolf
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Tagline: The truth is never overrated.
Grade: A-

This is another one of those movies that people might not want to watch just because of the genre. Most people consider movies that don't have cussing or bloody violence to be bad. A lot of my favorite movies have violence and cussing (Stand by Me, anyone?) but a lot of great movies are family movies, like this one. The movie is about Jason, who lies all the time...about everything. One day, after sneaking in the window to the classroom with the help of his best friend, Kaylee (Amanda Bynes, who, as always, rocks and steals the scenes she's in), he realizes he hasn't written his paper that was due that day. So he makes up a whole story about how he was in the ER all night with his dad, who had choked on a meatball...which is soon proved to be false when his parents show up at school...his dad meatball free. His teacher gives him until 5:00 that night to write his paper...which he very fittingly titles Big Fat Liar. On his way to turn in his paper, he runs into Mr. Marty Wolf...a ruthless movie producer. After Jason accidentally leaves his story in the limo, Wolf sees it and decides to claim it as his own. Hilarity ensues, with Jason and Kaylee to sneak off to Hollywood and all of Wolf's enemies ganging up on him to force him to confess that he stole the story. All in all, a solid movie from the time when Frankie Muniz was in every movie that came out...like Agent Cody Banks (I also liked that one...but, like I said, I like pretty much every movie.) The clear "winner" of this movie is Amanda Bynes, who wins in all her movies. (See the amazing, AMAZING She's the Man.)
-MOT