FILM CHALLENGE: 192) Easy A

192) Easy A

Director: Will Gluck

Year: 2010

Plot Summary: After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

It's hard to deny that Easy A, an American comedy about a clean-cut high school girl who uses the school's rumour mill to advance her popularity, is a well-written comedy. With an off-beat and original narrative alongside some fast, witty dialogue it will leave you wondering where the 90 minutes went and smiling from start to finish.

However, that doesn't necessarily make Easy A fantastic by any means.

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REVIEW: Skeletons

Skeletons

Director: Nick Whitfield

Year: 2010

Plot Summary: Two exorcists literally remove the skeletons from the cupboards from people's homes.

Falling somewhere between Being John Malkovich, Donnie Darko and Inception, the winner of this year’s Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival has all the right ingredients to be a cult classic. Its concept – two men who specialise in finding, as the saying goes, the skeletons inside people’s closets - promises to make for a smart, funny and enjoyably bizarre hour and half of entertainment. However, for a number of reasons, it just doesn’t work.

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