Epinions Recent Reviews for BillTK

The Innovative Use of Sound in The Conversation

Wed, 5 May 2004 00:09:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Back in 1974, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation employed a soundtrack in such a creative and inventive way that the film acquired a greater vitality and expression of its themes and moods than had the filmmakers treated the movie as a...

Duped by Dopo Teatro

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:19:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Located in the heart of the theatre district Dopo Teatro is a mere block away from The Producers, and if you time your exit just right (around 11:15 PM) you'll walk down the block and encounter Matthew Broderick exiting the theatre and signing...

Restaurant No Longer Exists

Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:56:37 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - This is to notify potential customers that Cafe St. Francis is no longer in existence (nor has it for quite awhile according to the current inhabitants). There is instead a place called Cafe Vanilla located at this address (482 West 43rd Street in New...

Terminator 3- Getting a “Rise” Out of the Machine

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:53:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - BillTK’s TRIVIA QUESTION: The host of which reality TV dating show appears in Terminator 3...

Dreamcatcher Fumbles...Poop goes the Weasel

Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:07:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - The screenplay adaptation by William Goldman and Lawrence Kasdan follows Stephen King’s intermittently obtuse novel as closely as one could expect, sometimes to a fault. But it also actually improves some aspects by streamlining certain plot...

Dreamcatcher loses its grip

Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:31:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Oh I came so close, so very close to recommending Dreamcatcher. Hell, for a while it was a potentially highly recommended book, but then, just like a dream that rushes abruptly to conclusion when one slowly emerges from a slumber, Stephen King...

Sympathy for the Devil Baby

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 03:02:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - This past week, while glancing through the newspaper I had the good luck to discover that Roman Polanski's 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s Baby was playing on the big screen down at New York City's Film Forum. I had ten minutes until the next...

The “Odd I See” in O Brother Where Art Thou?

Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:56:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Homer’s “The Odyssey” has been a source of inspiration for O Brother Where Art Thou? despite the self-effacing claim of the Coen Brothers that they’ve never even read that classical work (or is it a smarmy claim that they’ve...

Two Comedians Walk Into a Movie, the Director says, "What is this a Joke?"

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:13:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - The film’s marketing strategy leads one to believe this documentary singles out Jerry Seinfeld alone in its examination of the life and methodology of a stand-up comic. The reality however is that Comedian is pretty much evenly split between...

Punch-Drunk Love: First Nominee for Most Over-Rated Film of The Year: Punch Drunk Love

Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:11:29 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Over and over in Punch Drunk Love, director Paul Thomas Anderson assaults his audience with shock sound effects that pierce the ear and give one a start in their seat. In the opening scene, Adam Sandler, playing toilet plunger salesman Barry Egan,...

Here's Help in Choosing a film for Your Halloween Viewing Tonight!

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:58:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - I have two copies of this survey book by Chris Steinbrunner and Burt Goldblatt that details fifteen film classics of the fantasy genre between the years 1902 and 1956. Both books are hard covers but with very different appearances although both appealing...

Halloween Reading--Help Decide what Scary Film to Rent!

Sun, 27 Oct 2002 22:12:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Written in 1988 the book will of course not cover much of what has been a blockbuster period in the film industry, that is science fiction and fantasy films of the 90s, (the Men in Black series, the second series of Star Wars films,...

"Red Dragon...Take 2!" "Action!"

Sun, 20 Oct 2002 00:40:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Aside from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Red Dragon has been the film I have been most enthusiastically eager to see this year ever since learning that it was indeed in production. My only trepidation revolved around hearing it was...

The Best Pro-Statutory Rape Film You'll Probably Ever See

Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:20:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Swiftly and breezily told, this Digital Video feature is now playing in an art house near you. Tadpole tells the story of 15-year-old Oscar Grubman who has come home from boarding school for the Thanksgiving holiday intent on revealing his love to...

How did Dahmer enter the forest? He took the Psycho-Path

Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:11:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - From the outset, Dahmer’s opening credit title card explains to us that certain characters and events are fictional. Throughout cinematic history this has been par for the course when movies have depicted real-life events and/or people, the credo...

Spider-Man Does Whatever a Movie Can

Wed, 29 May 2002 23:20:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - What a lucky 6 months it’s been for cultural landmarks of my adolescence and their conversion to motion pictures. First, last Christmas saw the miraculous transformation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring into...

The Magic Kingdom- It's a Large World After All

Sat, 18 May 2002 22:41:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - (The beginning of this epinion will explain details pertaining to all the Disney Parks such as pricing, hours, etc. The fun stuff specific to the Magic Kingdom will shortly follow, so if you want to you can skip ahead to about the 9th paragraph.)...

Can You Handel Messiah?

Thu, 16 May 2002 19:33:49 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - This is a good page turner of a serial killer thriller with whodunit aspects. Unlike classics such as Red Dragon or Silence of the Lambs, we don’t know the killer’s identity nor the reason behind the killings until midway through the yarn...

Jason-eration X

Sat, 11 May 2002 16:52:40 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - It was about time this potentially fresh and exciting perspective was brought to the Friday the 13th series featuring the maniacal killer with the hockey mask Jason Voorhees. Granted, attempts were made in the past such as bringing him to...

Disney-MGM Studios: Better if Experienced with Children

Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:05:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - (The beginning of this epinion will explain details pertaining to all the Disney Parks such as pricing, hours, etc. The fun stuff specific to MGM-Studios will shortly follow, so if you want to you can skip ahead to about the 9th paragraph.)
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The Office Oscar Pool: Achievement in Sound Editing—Who Should Win and Who Will Win?

Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:51:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - With only two nominations in this category this year, you’ve at least got a fifty-fifty shot of picking the winner in any Oscar pool you might be entering this year. With a bit of analysis, perhaps we can tilt the odds even further in your favor. Every...

Voted "Best...Restaurant Where Teenage Girls Blow Lots of Cash on Little Penne Entrees"

Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:46:00 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Indeed that was how New York Press' Best of Manhattan issue described Mezzaluna, located in Manhattan on 3rd Avenue between 74th and 75th Streets. More on that assessment od the clientele later.

Fresh after seeing The Syringa Tree at Playhouse...

Made in NYC! (...and in L.A. for 10 days)

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:18:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - On pay-per-view this week is one of the past year’s small, unheralded comic gems, Made, starring Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau. I saw it earlier in the theater, and hope you have the time to catch it on cable or perhaps even on DVD.

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Armed With a Pair of Big Guns, But a Paradoxical Script

Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:36:27 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Aficionados of the PlayStation game will find much here in the movie that faithfully pays homage to the game series itself. A whole lot of press has already devoted itself to the apropos casting and costuming of real life actress Angelina Jolie in the...

Happy Halloween Kiddies! Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein-The Monster MishMash

Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:52:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BillTK - Fans of Alvin, Theodore and Simon will find a lot to appreciate in this Chipmunk tale combining music, comedy and scares, although the uninitiated may find the hyper-effected Chipmunk voices (by Ross Bagdasarian and Janice Karman) annoying if not...