Emily Belsey

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Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

This film makes me so proud to be a part of the Warner Bros. family.
BEAUTIFUL – adjective.  1. Having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind.  2. excellent of its kind.  3. wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.
Where the Wild Things Are is [...]

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Movie Review: Public Enemies

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

I had a date with my dad tonight.  We went to go see Public Enemies.
Amazing.
I knew the acting would be great (Um, hello?  Depp and Bale?  Add in a little DiCaprio, whom I saw in a GREAT teaser for his next movie, Shutter Island, and the night’s perfect!), knew the story would be great (a [...]

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Movie Review: The Dark Knight

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I’ll keep it simple.
Yes, the movie lives up to the hype.  It was exactly as good as I thought it was going to be.  Maybe even a little better than I thought it’d be.  It was even surprisingly funny.
But perhaps the best thing I can say about The Dark Knight is that never once during [...]

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Movie Review: I Am Legend

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

I’ve just gotten home from a preview screening of Warner Bros. I Am Legend, and I’m not sure how I feel about it all.

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Movie Review: Disturbia

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Disturbia.
I’m not quite sure how to begin this review. I want to write a review that is so compelling, so intriguing, and so exciting that the minute you finish reading it, you go out and rent this movie. But really the best I can do is to gush about Disturbia, tell you why [...]

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Movie Review: Hairspray – Amendment

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Okay, so if you read the verbose comment left by my mother on the previous post, you’ll see that she brings up a valid question.
I mentioned how I disliked John Travolta in the movie, but failed to mention why.  So here it is.
First of all, his costume.  It’s ill-fitting and bulky, which limits his physical [...]

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Movie Review: Hairspray

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

A month ago, I’d barely heard of the musical Hairspray, much less knew anything about its plot or music. I’d heard the reports that “they” were making it into a movie and that John Travolta would be playing Edna Turnblad and Disney Channel “star” Zac Efron would be playing the teen heartthrob. But [...]

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I went and saw the fifth HP movie today, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I was going to go last night to the 12:01 a.m. showing, but ended up going today at the 3:00 p.m. showing. (Yes, I was supposed to be at work at that time, but they sent a bunch [...]

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Movie Review: Transformers

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

So sad. I had such hopes for this movie. And not even high hopes, just hopes of being entertained.
I saw Transformers tonight. Wasn’t expecting anything spectacular or breathtaking, but I was expecting to be at least entertained.
I guess I should have read the reviews a little closer.
But I’m torn.
Because the first half [...]

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Ocean’s 13

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

I saw Ocean’s 13 this week.  It was fun.  The boys looked good, the action was fun, and it wasn’t bogged down with superfluous plot points.
Not a whole lot to say about this movie except that it wasn’t as strong as the 2001 version of Ocean’s 11, not as weak as Ocean’s 12, but it [...]

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I did the trendy thing this weekend and saw Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
Uh… I hated it.
Keep in mind, when I saw this movie, I had…

gotten less than 5 hrs of sleep the night before (I hosted a jr. high girls’ sleepover at my parent’s house)
not gotten a nap that afternoon (don’t normally [...]

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