© 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-ChrisJarmick Recent reviews written by member ChrisJarmick en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_238921158276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - 2 lesser 1950's creature feature types on one DVD disc. You might have a touch of nostalgia for MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL if your in your 40&#146s or early 50s and remember this one as a regular fixture of Chiller Theater and monster movie... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~238921158276 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:25:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_238921158276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_235252059780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - The Bare Box is a re-packaging of 3 SomethingWeird/Image Titles (4 movies altogether) into one lower price packaged. If you are considering collecting several Doris Wishman films, this might be a good way to begin. Doris Wishman made 30 films... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~235252059780 Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:05:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_235252059780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_240235482756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - I have reviewed nearly 20 of the more than 150 sword and sandal movies made mostly by Itailian producers from 1957 through 1965. Some of the most interesting of the genre were the hybrid movies that combined fantasy/science fiction and or horror... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~240235482756 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:23:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_240235482756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_239854259844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - I&#146ll be reviewing a few of the dubbed, campy musclemen epics of the past. By no means am I an expert on the genre, nor will I be spending hours researching or verifying running times, release dates, and what have you. However I&#146ll give you a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~239854259844 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:00:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_239854259844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_279078932100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - &#147Maybe there&#146s a world that I&#146m still to find.&#148 Yusuf aka Yusuf Islam the artist formerly known as &#145Cat Stevens&#146 who was born Steven Georgiou has just released his first pop album in 28 years (11/14/06). After a long... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~279078932100 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:38:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_279078932100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_278909259396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - CONSUMER ALERT: This movie is a turkey and should be avoided for as long as humanely possible. Sacha Baron Cohen has hit the really, really big time with Borat and so it is conceivable that you will be very tempted to rent this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~278909259396 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:15:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_278909259396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_277443415684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - On the surface Borat is a crude, rude side splittingly funny comedy that shocks everyone who sees it&#151even if you are familiar enough with HBO&#146s Da Ali G Show to know what you are in for. (And in case you are wondering, this is all... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~277443415684 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:00:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_277443415684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_240003288708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Todays sword and sandal feature under review is Hercules versus the Sons of the Sun, an 84 minute 1964 Italian and Spanish co-production. Our hero is played by Mark Forest who quit acting in 1965 to study and sing Opera and teach Opera to others... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~240003288708 Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:43:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_240003288708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_239991099012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - IL TRIONFO DI ERCOLE The Triumph of Hercules aka HERCULES VS. THE GIANT WARRIORS is a below average, circa 1964 91 minute Italian made sword and sandal offering. Milo (Pierre Cressoy), an evil tyrannical figure who bullies the people of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~239991099012 Fri, 3 Nov 2006 15:18:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_239991099012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_273451290244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Herein is my conundrum, to honestly analyze a beloved cult film, that I&#146ve discovered has too many flaws for me to embrace in spite of my respect for the director and appreciation of parts of the movie. It is akin to cult movie blasphemy to come... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~273451290244 Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:38:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_273451290244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_239971634820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - &#147. . .on land or on the sea as long as there is need there will be sons of Hercules.&#148 --Lyrics to the Sons of Hercules theme song (Sung with the gusto of a lumberjack song !!) Just to confuse everyone as much as possible with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~239971634820 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:58:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_239971634820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_268855512708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Clint Eastwood made an impressive directorial debut with 1971's Play Misty For Me. He plays a popular Carmel, California disc jockey named Dave Garver who keeps getting requests to "play Misty for Me" (as in the Errol Garner classic Jazz piano... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~268855512708 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:44:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_268855512708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_272280030852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - &#147Listen to me. A storm o'hell's coming down on this place any second. I don't know what they are, I don't know where they came from. All I do know is that these f&#146uckkers are fast, nasty, and hungry... and there's four of 'em. They got claws... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~272280030852 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:27:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_272280030852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_272230289028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Here’s a great double feature on a bargain-priced disc (under $10 at several places, DeepdiscountDVD.com and others), that was released as part of the MGM Midnight Movie series. Panic in Year Zero and Last Man on Earth are very well... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~272230289028 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:37:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_272230289028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_233248296580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - The PHANTOM LOVER or YE BAN GE SHENG has been declared director Ronny (BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR) Yu's masterpiece, by many. It was also YU's last Hong Kong film before going Hollywood with WARRIORS OF VIRTUE (1997) and BRIDE... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~233248296580 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:18:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_233248296580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_240178597508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - "You're only a mass of fat and muscle, full of violence and brutality!" Here&#146s a DVD package that offers cult movie, camp and sword and sandal lovers something they can&#146t resist. Not one but two full length entertaining movies and a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~240178597508 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:44:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_240178597508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_239796063876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Here we have a big twist on the sword and sandal films that were beginning to be produced and exported from Italy in what you would call astounding numbers. Dozens of these Gladiator aka Peplum / musclemen movies were being produced and exported because... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~239796063876 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:59:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_239796063876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_268933697156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Infernal Affair first began appearing at regional film festivals in 2002. The rights were immediately bought up by Brad Pitt & Jennifer Anniston's production company and Miramax. The movie was barely released to regular theaters in the U.S... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~268933697156 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:00:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_268933697156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_269325667972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Poetry at its best gets deep inside grief and peels open the pain and the secrets like a cook peeling an onion. Both will often make you cry. Poetry can explore tragedy from unique perspectives, twist the frames through which we look upon death, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~269325667972 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:51:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_269325667972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_269208096388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - In 1927 (future Nobel Prize winner) author Herman Hesse wrote the novel Steppenwolf a semi-autobiographical introspective story of a lonely writer in a state of utter despair who by chance meets a beautiful young woman who teaches him to be more... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~269208096388 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:01:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_269208096388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_268804853380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Once upon a time, the majority of people who wrote about this movie for Epinions embraced it insisting it was a 5 or 4 star masterpiece of a movie. It seemed like everyone was falling all over themselves heaping praise on this 'Just Say NO' movie. I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~268804853380 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:14:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_268804853380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_268247076484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Dirty Harry created one of the most enduring action film formulas still in use 30 years later.-- The over-the-top lone wolf vigilante who will do the right thing no matter what the cost in the most no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners, save the b.s. for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~268247076484 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:00:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_268247076484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_268083826308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - A few years ago they released all 5 of the Dirty Harry movies in a DVD set. Here’s a review of the films and of the DVD treatments, quality and extras. THE FILMS =-=-=-=-=-=- DIRTY HARRY (1971) =-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dirty Harry... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~268083826308 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:13:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_268083826308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_238210027140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Here's another fairly obscure flick that despite a cast of familiar names isn't worth remembering. A mediocre 1951 romantic melodrama is fused to a ponderously dull jungle psychological horror tale that&#146s in essence a twist on The Wolfman... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~238210027140 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:54:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_238210027140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_267423813252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - Simply Red, a band from Manchester defined by the vocals of it’s lead singer Mick Hucknell had two or three number 1 hits in the United States. The music would most accurately be described as an innovative twist on catchy lounge jazz mixed with smooth... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~267423813252 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:32:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_267423813252?linkin_id=8003929