Director: Craig Gillespie

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson

Summary: A love story of a boy and the people in his town. Oh, with a little blow-up doll on the side, too.

→ Yay

+ The director, the cast, and everybody else involved. With a story of a man falling in love with a blow-up doll, the movie could’ve veered into sex comedy or whathaveyou territory. Instead, the movie was sweet, funny, sad, and touching.

+ Ryan Gosling as Lars. So I’ve only seen him in The Notebook and I can’t even remember his performance anymore. He is awesome in this one. Wow, just wow.

+ I thought the pacing of the story was neither too fast that it rushed the whole story or too slow that it made it boring and a drag to watch.

+ The town’s interaction with Lars and his doll of a girlfriend (literally, haha). It’s funny watching them interact with a doll as if it’s a real person but also touching because they were all doing it for Lars.

→ Nay

- Honestly, I couldn’t find anything I didn’t like. ^^;;

Director: Peter Segal

Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin

Summary: Adventure-comedy spy movie with Steve Carell as Steve Carell (in a suit). ZOMG Dwayne Johnson.

→ Yay

+ Steve Carell doing what he does best: the bumbling, dead-pan guy.

+ Dwayne Johnson and his insane amount of on-screen charisma. (Ha, fangirl much?)

+ Got a good amount of laughs and giggles from me.

+ Did I forget to mention Dwayne Johnson? Hehe.

+ Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell playing off of each other though Steve Carell was so pwning her. Sorry Anne.

→ Nay

- Some jokes were stretched too long that by the end of them, I wasn’t laughing anymore (ie. the airplane bathroom scene).

- No exciting fight scenes. Pooh.

1. AstroBoy - I’m not a fan of the original anime/manga. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever watched a single episode or read a single volume. But, the fact that Kristen Bell is voicing one of the characters is enough for me to go out and watch it when it comes out. Plus, at least it’s not live-action, unlike some other adaptations of anime/manga out there *coughDragon Ballcough*

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - It’s not out here yet (soon though, I think) so I have to add it to my list. What can I say… Brad Pitt. Cate Blanchett. Was Tilda Swinton in it? Plus, it seems like such an interesting story, a person who is born old then grows up young, hehe.

3. Terminator Salvation - CHRISTIAN BALE. Lots of things go boom. Enough said.

4. X-Men Origins : Wolverine - Not that big a fan of the X-Men movies: I didn’t like Halle Berry’s Storm, and Anna Paquin’s weak, useless Rogue pissed me off. However, I liked Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. So yes, I shall watch this for Hugh Jackman and Liev Schrieber

Author: James Patterson

Summary: Kind of like Sex and the City. Minus the shoes. Plus the death.

→ Yay

+ Short chapters. For real: 1 chapter = approx. 4 pages long.

+ Double yay for grrl power! (The 4 leads are women)

+ Rather creative ways of killing the victims.

+ Claire, the forensic pathologist (or something like that). The most likeable of all the 4 heroines.

→ Nay

- The short chapters. Choppy much?

- The story moved too fast so I thought there wasn’t enough time for the tension to build.

- Lindsay Boxer, the lead heroine, and her drama. Yeesh.

- Double nay for the unnecessary sex scenes between Lindsay Boxer and her beau. Double yeesh.

- How the killer manages to escape from the cops near the end of the book. Random and Stupid. Stupidly random.

Author: Neil Gaiman

Illustrator: P. Craig Russell

Summary: Coraline gets herself in a whole lot of trouble. Whoopsie.

→ Yay

+ D-uh. Neil Gaiman.

+ A pre-teen/teen protagonist I could actually root for! Coraline was non-annoying, and smart. I like.

+ It’s a children’s story but even adults will get a kick out of it.

+ Double yay for the snarky, sort of sidekick black cat!

+ The character design for the “other mother”, the villain, was just plain creepy.

→ Nay

- I felt like the story ended too… cleanly.