Epinions Recent Reviews for DanCallaway

Sprint Mobile Phone Service in San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland: The Secret: How to Improve Your Coverage

Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:08:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - Sprint PCS won't tell you why its coverage is spotty. This company has plagued its users for the past 3 years with dropouts, intermittent service, and spotty coverage in areas they advertise as broadly serviced. When questioned, they will hem and haw...

New York New York: Crossroads of the Universe

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:45:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - New York New York was the first of the new wave of amazing 'theme casinos' that has been sweeping Las Vegas. With an enormous, brightly lit, smoke-free casino, top-notch accomodations, and a very good outdoor roller coaster to boot, NYNY is at the top...

Marky Mark & The Shark

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:07:15 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - "The Pertect Storm" is certainly not a perfect movie. The tale of a group of hearty Gloucester fishermen who go out on a risky post-season cruise for valuable swordfish, it is a drama and an action movie.

Mark Wahlberg and George...

The Linear Pulp Fiction, with Character Study

Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:52:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - I would like to try to hash out some of the details of this non-linear plot in this opinion. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll enjoy it, but if you haven’t, find a more plot-based opinion that doesn’t give so much away.

The plot (not the...

Redemption & Hope

Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:23:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - Frank Darabont’s ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ is one of the most finely crafted movies in recent years. The compellingly empathetic Andy Dufresne is one of my favorite characters of all time, and an amazing ensemble cast makes the movie shine.

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Redemption Through Love

Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:04:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - ‘The Apostle’ is a valuable movie for our time, and a clear, fair portrait or a man who is perhaps not all that he could be, but who is trying.

As the movie gets under way, we find Robert Duvall playing Sonny, an affluent holiness minister in...

Sloppy Plot, but Fun Anyway

Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:21:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - ‘Keeping the Faith’ is a feel-good date movie with Ed Norton and Ben Stiller. It has the unusual character assignments of Catholic priest and Jewish rabbi for the two leads, and one of the movie’s strongest points for me is that it stays quite faithful...

Plain and Simple Fun

Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:39:19 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - This movie is probably one for the guys - that's how I saw it. I am usually limitlessly critical of drivel like this, but I make an exception for this movie because, well . . . I enjoyed it. I'd probably pan it if I had watched it under lesser...

Nos morituri te salutant!

Fri, 12 May 2000 15:39:23 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - 'Gladiator' chafed and chided my movie sensibilities until I really couldn't stand it anymore.

I sat patiently and expectantly through the first battle scene, whose wide shots are truly well-done and evidence that there was muted genius at...

You Want it Right Now

Tue, 9 May 2000 13:17:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - Come on, you spoilsports. I can't believe I am reading negative reviews of McDonalds with sentences like 'the food is bad' and 'the commercials are lame.' You have to judge McDonalds based on what it is: homogeneous products at predictable prices. It's...

Sony KV-20M40: Flat, Bright, and Dense Picture

Tue, 9 May 2000 12:45:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - It seems like Sony almost has an unfair advantage in the television market. Their Trinitron tubes always show the flattest, most appealing pictures in the dingy aisles of the terrible electronics stores of the U.S. This unit is no exception; its...

Upside Down in the Block? Who Cares??

Fri, 5 May 2000 21:12:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - Henckel makes the finest knives in the world, hands down. Actually, strike that - you DON'T want your hands down when you're using a Henckel - you want them up in the air! These knives glide through chicken and beef as f they were gelatin, and the...

Keyspan USB Twin Serial Adapter: Works Well For What it Is, But No Cakewalk

Thu, 13 Apr 2000 04:24:00 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - The Keyspan Twin USB adapter is a good unit. If you have a new iMac and you want to connect your old peripherals (printers, cameras, and even some MIDI gear) it's the only way to go. That said, once you cross the line and give up your serial ports for...

Smooth, Familiar . . . Welcoming

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:41:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - Heineken Special Dark is one of my favorite beers around. It is brewed with the same high quality as Heineken Lager, and I find it to be one of the most mellow, smooth dark brews available.

It's not always easy to find this beer. In fact, it...

I Once Was Lost, But Now I've Found . . . TurboTax

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:33:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - I began my first tax filing this year. I had never had to file before, and I was suddenly thrust headfirst into the process with two jobs, multiple stock sales and dividends, and higher education stock credits to worry about. As I delved into the...

Good Coffee, Check Out the Clean Flavor!

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:16:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - Krups has always made a good coffee maker. When I bought this unit, I will confess that I was not particularly discriminating in my search for a coffee maker. The most important feature I required was a timer so I could put the unit next to my bed to...

Great For Some, Junk For Others

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:57:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - The Sony DCR-TRV103 is a great camcorder for the money. It's not so easy to find anymore, but I still see it sold at Costco and other 'behind the curve' retailers. It's not the newest, and it's not the cheapest.

Having a DV camcorder is...

Dated, Solid, Acceptable

Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:30:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - V-Tech has a good niche in the cordless market: cheap and cheerful. You'll find 'THE FONE' as it is called, for under 40 dollars on the web, or in Staples, Best Buy, etc. It's a good phone, and there's not much to say about it's features. It's 900Mhz,...

The Ends Justify The Means

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:22:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - Hopkins students tend to be pretty down on the life at JHU. The social life is generally quiet, the workload is relentless, and the surrounding neighborhoods leave something to be desired. In order to present an accurate and fair rating of Hopkins,...

Breast Pump: These Ads are Boring as Watching Cement Dry

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:54:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - The idea is cute, but the execution really leaves something to be desired. These commercials can have reviewers in them, but they really need to do a better job of conveying the idea of epinions - that you can earn money and learn about everything from...

iMac: Yikes! Bad News!

Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:02:52 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - This is the worst way to get the Epinions name and theme to the public! The site isn't even mentioned in the commercial - there's just a flash of the address at the end of the commercial. It is useful to have an ad that emphasizes the raw, uncensored...

Liliputian Locomotion: Phone on the Go

Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:02:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - The SCP-4000 caught my eye when I was shopping for a replacement for my Sprint PCS Touchpoint. Why was I looking for a replacement? The Touchpoint served my needs in general, and it had a few diamond-in-th-rough features. However, I was on the market...

Slow-Burn Showstopper!

Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:13:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - 'Bag of Bones' is a very richly written story, and a departure from Stephen King's tendency to equate suspense with shock and horror.

Kevin Noonan, the main character, is a writer who loses his wife to a mysterious embolism-like attack. The...

Hey! 2 Connections at Once!

Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:30:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - EarthLink is a great service, although I'm not sure they know why! My friends and I have been sharing (and I mean SHARING) an EarthLink account for almost 2 years. I got the account for myself, to use in a house with some friends. Obviously, with one...

King's Best.

Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:23:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DanCallaway - I find Christine to be the best Stephen King book available. From the brooding 3rd-person narrative of its midpoint to the reflections and wisdoms of the 17-year-old most-time narrator, Dennis Guilder, Christine is chock full of late-seventies teenage...