Easy A (2010)

Screenwriter Bert V. Royal’s loose high school adaptation of “The Scarlet Letter” isn’t quite as smart as he thinks it is, but Emma Stone is a charming smartass. She leads a fun, breezy 90 minutes, complete with knowing nods to those cheesy John Hughes films.

d: Will Gluck | imdb.com | trailer | “Pocketful of Sunshine”
There’s a higher power. | Olive & Brandon | Woodchuck Todd

The Unborn (2009)

The clichéd horror film exploits a heroine in skimpy underwear, the Holocaust and creepy little children to minimal effect and ends with the straight-faced assurance that “no actual Torah scrolls were destroyed or damaged in the making of this motion picture.”

d: David S. Goyer | imdb.com | trailer | Jumby wants to be born.