Epinions Recent Reviews for DrFaustus

Forget San Francisco, Train Needs to Save Themselves

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:54:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - I suppose I should have known better than to get my hopes up. After all, their best known hits, Meet Virginia, Drops of Jupiter, and Calling All Angels may be finely polished pop tunes with a glossy sheen, but they never rose above...

Gravity Has Left Me Feeling Down

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:50:40 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Imagine your developing a video game featuring a series of puzzles based around the laws of physics. You have three tasks that you need to achieve: 1) to design an accurate, responsive set of software algorithms to recreate gravity and the way that...

Mika Is Not What You Think He Is, He is Golden

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:06:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Listen to Mika's sophomore album The Boy Who Knew Too Much for more than a moment or two and you'll invariably find yourself playing the "identify-the-musical-influenc
es"
game. Mika and Greg Wells, who worked together to produce the album, have...

Canon Pixma iP100 – Printer Power on the Go

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:48:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the Canon Pixma iP100 mobile printer has a leg up on every other printer on the market right from the start. At only seven inches deep, thirteen inches wide, and two-and-a-half inches tall, the...

Panasonic SC-PT770 Home Theater - a Blockbuster Entertainment Bargain

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:11:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - There's one key question that anyone looking to buy a home theater system these days needs to ask himself or herself... Well, to be honest, there are really two key questions if we include "Is it really in my best interest to buy a new home theater...

Tideland - You Aren't Going to Know What to Think, but Hopefully You'll Be Thinking

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:20:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - When a director with a distinctive vision and uniquely individual style manages to make movie after movie for more than thirty years, they're bound to end up recycling the same elements to the point where they become cliches. In the case of Terry...

This Must Be Miles Fisher's Place

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:05:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Back when I was growing up, MTV was the way to go for a fledgling musical act looking to gain some exposure. If a band had an interesting music video, everyone would be talking about them within days of its debut. Buzz about the band would...

Presenting Sweden's Newest Cultural Export, Movits!

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:47:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Evening at the Improv. We've got some real funny stuff for you tonight, and we’d like to start off with something based on some audience suggestions. First of all, can anyone give us a...

Eager to Please, but Not Quite Able

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:19:34 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - When I first heard it, I could have sworn it was an early Elvis Costello track. The nerdy sounding vocals with their staccato delivery and scooping bends on the longer notes, the crunchy pub rock sound of the guitar licks that start with a simple...

Brick – A High School Neo-Noir Thriller

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:46:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Odd as it may seem, the mainstay characters of film noir can be seen reflected in contemporary high school culture. The big, tough muscle bound thugs? Football players and wresters. The seductive nightclub singer? Leading lady of the high school...

Classic Sinatra II: You've Heard the Best, Now Hear the Rest

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:25:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - The recent passing of Michael Jackson has got me thinking about musical superstars. A few years ago I would have thought that there would always be someone around making music that the whole world could unite around. Recent years, though, have seen the...

It Makes These Little Creatures Come to Life

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:44:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - I was born too late to experience the evolution of some truly spectacular bands. To me, the Beatles who recorded the sweetly innocent pop of Please Please Me and The Beatles who played the experimental psychedelia of The White Album have...

Peggle Dual Shot – Imperfect Version of a Perfect Game

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:40:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Amongst casual computer gamers, there are two kinds of players - those who've found themselves completely addicted to Peggle, and those who've never played the game. If you're in the latter camp, here's a quick rundown of the game that PopCap first...

Daddy Played the Banjo

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:30:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - There's an unspoken arrangement when it comes to actors who'd like to put out an album of music. They'll dabble around with whatever genre is the latest disposable flash in the pan, we'll opt not to buy it, they'll go on acting, and six months later...

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? Let's Find Out.

Sun, 10 May 2009 01:42:25 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Who doesn't love a good rhetorical question? Really, is there any more elegant way for someone to humbly make a point? Should I stop here before I go overboard with these rhetorical questions to start this off? Okay, all inanity aside, rhetorical...

Apple's New iMac - a 24-Inch Powerhouse

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:09:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - I've been asked plenty of times over the years why I prefer to use Macs instead of PC's. More often than not, I explain that it's out of a force of habit - back when I started college and found myself in the computer labs on a regular basis, the Mac...

Not the Same Old Birthday Songs

Wed, 1 Apr 2009 01:45:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - I wish Bleu McAuley were a personal friend of mine. Sure, it'd be nice to know a professional musician, getting to visit them on tour, hang out backstage, tag along to music industry parties, and maybe even cozy up to him enough to get mentioned in the...

Guilty Pleasures - Guilty as Charged

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:58:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - I've never been one to follow the prevailing trends in music. I was in grade school back when Thriller was first released, and I turned up my nose at Michael Jackson's sound in abject disinterest. Ten Years later, when Nevermind changed...

Join with The Feeling

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:19:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - The British do some truly incomprehensible things. They add the letter U into all sort of words where it has no business. They call "fries" "chips," and they call "chips" "crisps." They drive on the wrong side of the road, and they invent bizarre...

Blah Blah Blah Music Blah Blah

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:44:46 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Some pop music projects are easy to identify as terrible ideas from far away - Celine Dion covering AC/DC, the Chicago Bears releasing a single, Sgt. Pepper's being made into a movie. All terrible ideas with terrible results, but there's a...

2008's Best Documentary - Man on Wire

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:56:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - On August 7th, 1974, Philippe Petit undertook one of the most daring, death-defying stunts in history, and if we were ask any of today's big name, high profile, thrill seeking performers, he went about it all wrong. Petit didn't seek out any sponsors to...

That's Far Out, Man...

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:34:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Should we be expected to take an album seriously when one of its tracks is titled Ass Enchilada? How about if one of its tracks is a version of the theme to the Odd Couple performed by a jaunty whitebread choir singing nothing more than...

Slumdog Millionaire: Who Wants to Be a Slumdog Millionaire

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:12:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - The "rags to riches" story is undoubtedly one of the oldest plot devices known to man. If we were to put together some sort of timeline, the origins of "rags to riches" could probably be traced back to just a few short weeks after the invention of cloth...

Weezer Wishes You a Merry Christmas

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:58:31 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Years of heading out with my family for candlelight church service late every Christmas Eve has given me a certain preconceived notion of how certain Christmas Carols are supposed to sound - quiet, somber, stripped down to a bare piano accompaniment, a...

It's a Harsh Holiday with The Singing Saw at Christmastime

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:02:52 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - If there were some sort of aural dictionary of emotions, there are a handful of instruments that would be a shoe-in to be the definition for "haunting": pan flute, theremin, didgeridoo, singing saw - they all embody a dreamlike sense of mysticism and...