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2001 Honda Civic 4 door: Honda cutting corners, but still a good car

Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:52:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - This is my third Honda Civic, purchased 12/00 after my 1990 Civic sedan sprung a head gasket leak and a radiator leak after only 107,000 miles.

The 1990 Civic was a great little car, with excellent handling on snow and ice and a comfortable,...

Sibling Symbiosis and the Wreckage of the Sixties

Sun, 4 Feb 2001 12:50:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - It's generally accepted that no one cares about a film's resonance to the critic's personal life. Sometimes, however, a film hits SO close to home that a little truth in advertising is in order. Even Roger Ebert slips occasionally, as in his review of...

If you like misery, go see THE HOUSE OF MIRTH

Sun, 4 Feb 2001 11:33:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - Nestled away in Martin Scorsese's 1993 adaptation of Edith Wharton's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, almost unnoticed amidst the opulent and meticulously crafted food, the fabulous costumes, and Joanne Woodward's calm narration, was an aura of stifling...

Being Bill Gates

Sat, 3 Feb 2001 13:30:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - Let me be perfectly clear: ANTI-TRUST is a geek movie. Since I seem to be the only critic on the planet who actually liked this movie, and may be the only critic on the planet with over ten years of actual Life in Geekdom, the two may be related. But...

Count on Lonergan, Linney, and Ruffalo for true life drama

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:21:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - In a season clogged with megaplex dreck aimed at children and morons, I was privileged to catch this little gem of a flick that's so real, so heartfelt, so beautifully wrought, that it seems like a pearl hidden at the bottom of a stack of discarded...

A Nine-Iron Runs Through It

Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:24:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - Note to Robert Redford: It's BASEBALL that's poetic, not GOLF!

THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE, which could just have easily been called FAIRWAY OF DREAMS, or A NINE-IRON RUNS THROUGH IT, attempts to give the game of golf the same kind of poetry...

A boy's just gotta dance...and go for the Oscar

Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:09:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - I'm not quite sure what I make of BILLY ELLIOT. A charming, delightful, wee, quaint yarn in the tradition of THE FULL MONTY, LITTLE VOICE, SAVING GRACE, and BRASSED OFF, it's the story of an charming, delightful, wee quaint lad (the eponymous Billy) who...

A Pretentious Remake of "Pennies from Heaven"

Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:05:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - You can call it Dogme 95, you can call its pretentious credo a "Vow of Chastity", I call it amateurish filmmaking and I say to h*ll with it.

Danish director Lars Von Trier is one of the founders of the Dogme 95 movement, which...

Humiliation packaged as entertainment...

Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:30:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - Remember AFTER HOURS? You know, the Martin Scorsese film in which Griffin Dunne endures two hours of some of the most horrifying psychological horrors imaginable? Remember how that film seemed to be shot in "feel-o-vision," so that when you...

"Almost Famous" is darn near perfect

Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:18:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - As a music enthusiast from childhood and former Rolling Stone writer, Cameron Crowe knows the effect that great popular music can have on the human soul; It can make you sing, it can make you cry. It is the punctuation of life that can make your heart...

Jazz Age Jerk

Sat, 30 Sep 2000 18:04:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - As Woody Allen has become angrier and angrier over the last fifteen years, particularly at the women in his life, he has focused each of his films into either of his two passions: feeling sorry for himself, or 1930's culture, particularly pre-swing...

To be Young, Good-Looking, and Self-Involved in Paradise...

Sat, 30 Sep 2000 17:57:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - There's no talking about THE BEACH without first addressing the scrawny blonde-haired 800-pound gorilla who presides over the proceedings. It's easy to forget that before the Boat Movie which catapulted his career into the stratosphere and turned him...

Forget Rainforest Cafe; Enchanted Garden is the real thing

Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:36:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti -
Review Topic: Accommodations

On September 16, 2000, we boarded Air Jamaica flight 18 for Montego Bay, headed for our twelfth trip to Jamaica. After ten years of staying at small hotels along Long Bay in Negril, and unable to...

Note to Campion: Harvey Keitel is not a sex symbol!

Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:49:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - In Jane Campion's latest film, HOLY SMOKE, a character tells of the photographs of male movie stars she keeps in her nightstand drawer, at which she sneaks peeks while she and her husband are making love. Campion is fortunate in that she can find people...

a heartwarming, life-affirming, movie about abortion

Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:35:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - Perhaps only John Irving could pull off write a heartwarming, life-affirming, moving, nonjudgmental book about abortion; and certainly Lasse Hallström is the only director capable of filming it. And oh, what a wonderful job he does.

In 1993,...

A pastiche of 1930's leftist cultural causes

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:40:24 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - No one ever accused Tim Robbins of being subtle. Of course, no one ever accused Tim Robbins about being less than sincere and passionate about his causes and his politically-oriented films either. In THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, a pastiche of 1930's leftist...

The safest airline in the skies...and the most aggravating

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:41:31 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - There is much to love...and to hate...about Air Jamaica. The airline is majority-owned by Gordon "Butch" Stewart of the Sandals/Beaches hotel chain, and say what you will about Mr. Stewart -- he is one smart businessman. Stewart seems well...

A star (Jude Law) is born...

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:22:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - I wish I had just a soupçon of the luck Anthony Minghella had the day he decided to cast then relatively unknown actors Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Jude Law, and Philip Seymour Hoffman in his adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel THE...

Parenting your own mom isn't fun

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:09:23 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - A number of years ago, Matt Groening (of THE SIMPSONS fame) did a LIFE IN HELL cartoon about the various types of Moms -- including "Discipline Mom"

and "Fun Mom." Like most of us whose moms tended more towards Dire...

Some Unusual Suspects

Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:19:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - Ordinarily, any film that is not only hyped as being "like PULP FICTION," but also stars Benecio del Toro, Ryan Phillippe, and Juliette Lewis, would cause me to run screaming in the other direction. I am among the minority that has preferred...

Cheech and Chong Meet Ned Devine

Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:15:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - I don't know what makes Scots so funny, but they are. Perhaps it's living in a country with a heritage of men wearing skirts without underwear and eating oatmeal stuffed into a pig's stomach and then boiled, but Scots are funny. Billy Connolly knows it...

Doomed love on the moors -- with kreplach

Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:56:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - In 1997's TITANIC, a young Welsh actor slipped nearly unnoticed past all except those few young women whose tastes run more toward the dark and brooding rather than the blond and saintly. This young man had little to do except bring Bernard Hill a cup of...

Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:51:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - I know what you're thinking. Did I just sprout six talons, or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as these are some razor-sharp muthas, you've got to ask yourself one...

A Boat + A James Horner Score = MONEY!!

Thu, 6 Jul 2000 07:42:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - Over the first Independence Day weekend of 2000, the mantle of Hot Box Office Star was officially passed from Mel Gibson over to George Clooney, with the trouncing of the earnest endurance test THE PATRIOT by the Clooney vehicle, an adaptation of...

Martin Riggs in Knee Breeches

Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:05:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CozzifanTutti - Martin Riggs is the kind of character (LETHAL WEAPON I, II, III, IV... ad nauseum) an actor longs to play. He's tough, but sensitive, has a wacky sense of humor, and demonstrates the kind of raging grief that makes women want to cook him soup. Mel...