| The adjectives used to market Adam include: romantic, funny, delightful, poignant, uplifting, humorous. I have to disagree with most of those, especially: funny, humorous and delightful. A comedy it is not. But that's not to say that it isn't good. It's very good. | 2009 Directed by: Max Mayer Screenplay by: Max Mayer Starring: Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne | |
| Matt is a studious, hard-working high school senior bound for Georgetown University. Then he meets the girl next door and all hell breaks loose. "The Girl Next Door" is the type of film that gently breaks down the door of a genre. Take your typical teen comedy with geeks hanging out in the A/V room, guys being obsessed with meeting porn | 2004 Directed by: Luke Greenfield Screenplay by: Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wangler and Brent Goldberg Starring: Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert | |
| stars, with some contrived plot which allows for breasts galore and lots of lame sex jokes. But this film sees that bet and raises it. It has your geeks obsessed with meeting porn stars, but it also has an actually well-written good comedy story, which then allows for breasts galore and some mild sex jokes. Emile Hirsch is the perfect actor for the role of Matt. He's handsome so women will love to watch him, but not too handsome that men will want to watch him too. After this, his peers started watching him and he's been getting accolades for his talent. "The Girl Next Door" is for everybody getting frustrated with the poor state of teen comedies. You can watch this without hanging your head in shame. | ||
 |  Part teen comedy and part political history, but completely smart and hilarious. |
| Meet Leon Trotsky: born Leon Bronstein, a revolutionist, a Marxist leader, and killed in 1940 by a devout Stalinist. Oh wait, wrong one. Meet Leon Bronstein: a revolutionist, a Marxist, and high school teenager living in Montreal. Except to this Leon, he's the same person, the reincarnate of Leon Trotsky the famous Russian revolutionist. He's "The Trotsky" stuck in a public high school. | 2009 Directed by: Jacob Tierney Screenplay by: Jacob Tierney Starring: Jay Baruchel | |
