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Coraline, a review by addicted2comics

The Plot: An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

My Thoughts: The poster is right......this is too weird for words!! Aside from some creepiness with the buttons (you would understand if you saw it) I found this a really fun movie! Admittingly, its a little slow in the beginning, but this is a 4.5 out of 5 easy!!

(From Addicted2comics(:P)'s Official Review Thread!!! on April 8th, 2010)

Believe, a review by Danae Cassandra

Believe
Year of Release: 1999
Directed By: Robert Tinnell
Starring: Ricky Mabe, Elisha Cuthbert, Jan Rubes, Ben Gazzara, Stephanie Morgenstern
Genre: Suspense/Thriller

Overview:My Thoughts:
This is a pretty good, family friendly ghost story.  It's not particularly scary, and the backstory for the ghost and the way it's going to end are both pretty predicable, but it's aimed at a younger audience and that's almost to be expected as an adult watching a film like this.  The actors are all likable and do a decent job and the setting is very well done (I love Wickwire House). 

I will say - don't watch the trailer.  The trailer is absolutely terrible, and could completely ruin this movie.  The trailer really tries to make you believe that this for a lot older audience than it is, even comparing it to The Sixth Sense of all things.  This is a kids/tweens movie, and should have been marketed as such. 

Bechdel Test: Fail

Overall: 3/5

(From Within My (Mom's) Lifetime Marathon on November 9th, 2015)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

What's the show about?
Gossip Girl belongs to a group of students who live in Manhattan's upper east side and they are rich - really rich. The "outsiders" of this group are Dan and Jenny Humphrey who live in Brooklyn but go to the same private school as the others. It's a show about love, life and intrigues and the one person who blogs about all this: Gossip Girl. Nobody knows who she is, but she and her network of "informants" know everything.

"Pilot"
The new school year has begun and Dan is now a junior. And one event will change his life and that of the others forever: Serena van der Woodsen is back from her year on boarding school and she will go to their school again. S is D's big love but she doesn't even know he exists and S and Queen B have some unfinished business.

My Opinion
The show is very intriguing with all these characters that have their own agendas, with their love and revenge plottings and in the middle of it Dan who so doesn't really fit into this world yet is bound to become the ultimate insider. And I love Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) as the voice of Gossip Girl. I never watched shows like Beverly Hills, 90210 or The O.C. but this show I really like, I even bought (and read) the book by Cecily von Ziegesar on which the show is based on:



(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on September 1st, 2009)