Epinions Recent Reviews for BlakedwardsUK

COMPLETE LIBRETTO OF WAGNER'S 'RING' CYCLE

Wed, 9 Apr 2003 15:52:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - This is an excellent new translation of all four operas in Richard Wagner's epic music drama "The Ring of the Nibelung", containing the original German prose (as with all his operas, written by the composer himself) and a new English translation by...

LISZTOMANIA - KEN RUSSELL FINALLY GOES TOO FAR

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:45:18 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - The concert hall is lined with screaming girls. Then a man walks on stage and begins to perform his music. The girls scream. They try to get on the stage to touch him. One of his lovers tries to invade the stage. Another makes it onto the stage with a...

The Movie Is Something Of A Fine Mess Itself

Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:31:29 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - This is generally hated and despised by critics and cinema fans alike. Why is this? Could it be because Blake Edwards was raiding the sacred grave of Laurel & Hardy by announcing he wanted to remake their 1932 Oscar-winning short The Music Box? Was it...

More Rest Than Motion

Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:48:31 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Roger Hedden adapts his own play for the big screen in this meandering, overlong and patchy Generation X drama, which is destined to look very dated in years to come, that looks at the loves and lives of four twenty-somethings living in the small town of...

WAR ZONE - DEVASTATING LOOK AT HUMAN EVIL

Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:35:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Like fellow "Britpack" member Gary Oldman, actor Tim Roth chooses a difficult and emotionally disturbing subject for his directorial debut, in this case, an adaption of Alexander Stuart's 1989 novel dealing with incest. Indeed, this does for child abuse...

ROB ROY ENTERTAINS IN CLASSIC STYLE

Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:18:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Although Mel Gibson's Braveheart took the box office and the awards, Michael Caton-Jones's unfairly overlooked Scottish honor vs English greed epic is just as entertaining and in many ways a lot more fun. It certainly doesn't take itself as seriously as...

RESERVOIR DOGS - SUPER-COOL!!!!

Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:15:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Quentin Tarantino's explosive debut feature struck some as a pretentious, audacious, over-talkative and thoroughly objectionable piece of work that plagiarizes from every Hong Kong action movie, crime thriller and even a couple of slapstick comedies...

Very Poor directorial debut from Ben Elton

Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:55:36 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - I cannot believe that this was written by Ben Elton, the comic genius who angrily satirized against Mrs. Thatcher's unlimited capitalism in the early 80's, who gave us works of brilliance such as Blackadder, The Young Ones, The Man from Auntie and even...

FOUR ROOMS - THREE OF WHICH YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT OF FAST!

Sat, 26 May 2001 18:15:08 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - On paper this movie probably looked like a tremendous opportunity. Four of Hollywoods hottest writing and directing talent get together an impressive and talented star cast and make a wonderfully tasteless portmanteau black comedy set in a hotel on New...

Splendid Stan and Ollie comedy

Fri, 18 May 2001 15:49:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Initially announced to be the last film Laurel & Hardy would make for producer Hal Roach (which in the end it wasn't), Blockheads is an absolutely hilarious comedy classic. Mixing elements of farce, slapstick, wordplay and echos of the teams earlier...

A Very Fine and Funny Mess

Fri, 18 May 2001 15:18:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Simply marvellous bit of farce from Stan and Ollie that may have a plot as old as the hills but nevertheless proves how timeless their comedy is and how they've helped shape the face of modern slapstick comedy.

Once again Laurel & Hardy are on...

Perfect Urotsukidoji

Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:37:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Although the anime genre is best-known for it's Pokemon clones, it first became famous, or should that be infamous, with the much trumpeted release of more adult film titles. The most famous one is probably Akira, set in a future post-apocalyptic world...

Decent Attempt to Freshen Up a Tired Formula

Mon, 9 Apr 2001 07:59:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Switch follows a bizarre pattern of comedies that suddenly appeared in the late eighties without warning; body swap. Starting with Like Father, Like Son and continuing with films like 18 Again and Big, audiences lapped up these fantasy comedies which...

Pure Horrorshow!

Mon, 9 Apr 2001 06:58:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Viddy well little brother! Stanley Kubrick's dazzling adaption of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel looks more and more dated as time goes by, yet it remains a compelling and socially relevant analysis of a degenerated future society in which law and order...

An absolute classic - addictive and mesmerizing

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:25:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - If there was ever a game to which the word "perfect" could be applied then it's got to be this simply brilliant strategy game that starts you off with just a small, primitive nomadic group of settlers and using your skill and knowledge you must guide...

Police Quest Series hits the bottom

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:11:47 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - If you thought Phantasmagoria was inept and poorly made with overlong FMV sequences then wait till you've seen this turkey. I should add that I have only played the first SWAT game and I'm reassured by close friends that the others in the series are much...

Phantasmagoria - Truly terrible FMV nonsense

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:53:36 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - A Sierra compilation pack featuring the first Phantasmagoria game and it's sequel A Puzzle of Flesh. Sadly, both games turn out to be an unbelievably bad piece of FMV nonsense that could well rank among the worst games ever made.

A recently...

Bruce Willis' debut feature - extremely funny and well worth seeing

Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:26:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Although not very well-known, and even rarely-seen nowadays, this was the first movie to star Bruce Willis. Kim Basinger too was reaching the pinnacle of super-stardom when she made it so it's tempting to think that this movie could have cost close to...

Interesting minor ghost story

Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:53:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - The only notable American film by German director Frank Wisbar, this is an interesting low-budget ghost story with some genuinely startling moments let down only by the often embarrassingly poor dialogue.

Set in a small town by an eerie swamp...

A good try, but without Peter Sellers, it's really pointless

Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:20:35 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - The Pink Panther movies provided star Peter Sellers and director Blake Edwards with a healthy bank account throughout many troubled times. Indeed both star and director went completely out of fashion in the late sixties and early seventies and by all...

Far, far better than the dreadful "Titanic"

Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:17:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - When you mention the Titanic to anybody these days there first response is probably "Oh yeah. Wasn't it sad that those two lovers didn't make it?" or "yeah, Leo was sexy in that". What has to remembered is that the Titanic story is...

One of the best entrants in an uneven series

Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:44:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - The British Carry On series of comedy films is the longest running film series in the western world. Between 1958 and 1978, 29 films were made with Carry On Columbus appearing in 1993 as an attempt at a comeback (which failed miserably!). The formula was...

Urotsukidoji III only adds to the confusion

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:03:10 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - What started out as a (fairly) simple story about a superbeing creating a better world has been turned into quite a sloppy mess in Urotsukidoji III. It seems writer Toshio Maeda and director Hideki Takayama are running out of ideas of where the story...

The series was on it's way out - some laughs

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:09:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - Flushed with the success of Return of the Pink Panther, star Peter Sellers and director Blake Edwards probably only made this movie out of sheer greed. It's certainly not up to the standards of the others in the series, although it's funny enough to make...

Triumphant comeback for Sellers and Edwards

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:46:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BlakedwardsUK - It took them 10 years to make another one but thankfully they did. After 10 years of obscurity, flops, and epics manque, Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards made the wise decision to resurrect the Pink Panther characters for a whole new series of adventures...