© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-ALawston Recent reviews written by member ALawston en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_488000687748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Anti-heroes are the most fun. It's why millions of slightly strange women adore J K Rowling's Severus Snape, why we all, deep down, want Wile E. Coyote to catch the Roadrunner and why the Devil has all the best songs. So when I heard about a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488000687748 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:13:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488000687748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485181525636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - It Was Twenty Years Ago TodaySeptember 1989, and the final season of Doctor Who's initial twenty-six year run launched with a blaze of indifference on a country which just didn't care about the errant Time Lord any more. Scheduled... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485181525636 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:34:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485181525636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484312190596?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - "Do you want to see The Final Destination on Sunday?" came the text."Not really, but you're blonde and you have a nice car," would have been my honest reply, but I tried to drum up a bit of enthusiasm nonetheless. "Have you seen the first... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484312190596 Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:51:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484312190596?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484063481476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Save your breath for the Timelash, Doctor. Most people depart with a scream... (Maylin Tekker, Timelash)Ah, Doctor Who. The bedrock of my childhood, and most of my life if I'm being honest. Over its 46 years, it has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484063481476 Mon, 7 Sep 2009 06:56:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484063481476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_481680789124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - As the nation prepares to mourn the end of David Tennant's reign as the Doctor, it's important to remember that it was not always the biggest thing on television. Whoever you blame (Colin Baker unfairly tends to cop quite a lot of the flack), the mid-80s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~481680789124 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:14:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_481680789124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480672059012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Shaun is a 20-something Londoner stuck in a dead-end job with irritating flatmates. His troubled relationship with Liz comes to a head after he forgets to book a table at a restaurant, and he seems doomed to spend the rest of his days drinking in the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480672059012 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:39:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480672059012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_479533698692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Once again, the Harry Potter hype machine promised us that this would be the darkest year yet at Hogwarts. And, once again, everyone was too polite to point out that they've been saying this since Chamber of Secrets came out several years ago..... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~479533698692 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:40:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_479533698692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_478321938052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - For the past hundred years or so, Mr Terrance Pratchett of Wiltshire has been producing a whimsical series of novels concerning the exploits of divers personages upon a celestial body which resembles in many ways our own Terra, save but for the trifling... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~478321938052 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:23:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_478321938052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477171650180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Gateway, by Frederik Pohl, is very much in the grand tradition of 'hard SF'. Whereas much of what gets put in the science-fiction section of bookshops is actually little more than fantasy with lasers instead of swords, Gateway is part of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477171650180 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:21:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477171650180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466881777284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Imagine a future where the British Empire has risen to control interstellar space, controlling and administering the cosmos on behalf of aliens and foreigners who can't be trusted to do it themselves.In this faintly steampunk future, Captain... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466881777284 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:36:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466881777284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465947364996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - I'm a sucker for books with clever titles. I've been tricked into purchasing Robert 'Awful' Rankin's novels several times thanks to brilliant titles such as The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465947364996 Sat, 4 Apr 2009 16:14:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465947364996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459127819908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - The sonic screwdriver is a prop that has served the Doctor well for over 40 years, first appearing in 1966's adventure Fury From the Deep. Originally it was just what the name implied - a tool that unscrewed things using sound waves - but it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459127819908 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:56:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459127819908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459011559044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - I love Almodovar's films, he's an effortlessly entertaining director and always worth watching. After a fresh bout of love for his style in the wake of the magnificent Volver, I got hold of some of his earlier films, including Tie me Up! Tie me... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459011559044 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:49:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459011559044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_436844859012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - I was recently forced to sit through Sex and the City. This should give you the gist of what I'm about to say. You may wonder why I'm bothering to review the film. After all, as a heterosexual British male in his late 20s, I'm about as far as it's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~436844859012 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:05:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_436844859012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435519458948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - A new Incredible Hulk film. No, seriously, just a few years after Ang Lee's (unfairly) maligned Hulk, Edward Norton stars in a new production designed to put the Incredible back into the superhero that everyone privately thinks is a bit of a waste of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435519458948 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:53:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435519458948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432575057540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – it sounds like a computer game, doesn't it? Which is odd, as the many computer games based on Harrison Ford's iconic archaeologist have tended to have fairly sensible titles not too far... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432575057540 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:36:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432575057540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429391908484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - After years of disappointing dabbles with big-budget productions – most obviously Planet of the Apes, but let's not forget quite large parts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Mars Attacks! - director Tim Burton has gone back to his roots... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429391908484 Fri, 9 May 2008 09:41:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429391908484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429240258180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Superhero films are probably my guiltiest of guilty pleasures. I enjoy them pretty much unconditionally because I'm a nerd. But unlike the kind of nerd who begins criticising a comic adaptation as soon as the first publicity shots show that the hero's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429240258180 Thu, 8 May 2008 03:40:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429240258180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427464494724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - I Am Legend - the title of the film could either refer to the book from which it's adapted, or to its insanely long production history. Once upon a time Mr Schwarzenegger was supposed to be headlining this jolly tale of a scientist who finds himself the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427464494724 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:52:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427464494724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427180396164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - The 60s are regarded as a decade of experimentation and stuff, and of course it's the decade that spawned Doctor Who, possibly the oddest television show ever created. If the basic concept of a man travelling through time and space in a police box... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427180396164 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:17:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427180396164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423769050756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Neuromancer is more than twenty years old now, a fact that's a bit astonishing. Written by William Gibson, the blurb claims that the novel 'invented' cyberspace and virtual reality. Bold claims indeed (and perhaps not entirely justified in the case of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423769050756 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:56:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423769050756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_406889533060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Unscrupulous Americans descend on Mexico, determined to build a railway through swathes of farming land, foreclosing mortgages and shooting homeowners. The only people who can stand in their way? The highly-educated socialite daughter of a murdered... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~406889533060 Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:37:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_406889533060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_406651702916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Lucifer Box is a debauched painter and assassin working for the British secret service - which is of course based at the Royal Academy of Arts. In this second volume of his memoirs, some years after the events of The Vesuvius Club, we find our hero... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~406651702916 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:34:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_406651702916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405856095876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Lost in a Good Book charts the continuing adventures of Thursday Next, dodo-owning, book-jumping, literary detective and decorated war hero. The book opens a few months after the events of Jasper Fforde's debut The Eyre Affair, and sees our heroine... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405856095876 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:52:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405856095876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405145882244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ALawston - Stratford-upon-Avon. One of my favourite places in the world. I've hung out with actors, been to the theatre more times than I can remember, messed about on the river and explored quite a few of the many bars and restaurants. One thing I haven't done... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405145882244 Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:32:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405145882244?linkin_id=8003929