© 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-JackSommersby Recent reviews written by member JackSommersby en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_181629980292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - At the onset of Carlos Reygadas' Japón, a nighttime view of congested Mexico City highway traffic fills the screen, and it pretty much gets across what&#146s intended: that it's something most people would rather avoid. We're then transported to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~181629980292 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:21:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_181629980292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_181419806340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Neil Simon&#146s Oscar-nominated screenplay for 1977&#146s The Goodbye Girl wasn&#146t anything particularly great (and neither was the Academy&#146s judgment that year -- it also nominated the screenplay for the mawkish dance melodrama The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~181419806340 Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:53:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_181419806340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_181042908804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - After doing four years in the soap opera The Young and the Restless, the great Wings Hauser contributed a scary, sensational, show-stopping turn as the psychopathic pimp Ramrod in the 1982 Los Angeles crime thriller Vice Squad. Positively... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~181042908804 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:46:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_181042908804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175059799684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Phenomenally entertaining and excitedly paced like gangbusters, Stuart Woods' Heat is a dazzling, atmospheric thriller that dares you not to finish its near-five-hundred-page self in a single sitting. Our hero is Jesse Warden, an ex-DEA agent... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175059799684 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:16:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175059799684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_180452494980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - The day after having sat through Mel Gibson&#146s ludicrous The Passion of the Christ I allowed myself the pleasure of re-watching Martin Scorsese&#146s miraculous, near-perfect The Last Temptation of Christ, and I&#146m glad that I did,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~180452494980 Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:18:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_180452494980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_178716708484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Brett Piper's Bite Me! begins with two low-rent dope dealers getting themselves killed in a fiery car wreck right before meeting their buyer, who's a go-between for the owner of a financially-challenged strip club called Go-Go Saurus, which boasts... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~178716708484 Sat, 2 Apr 2005 17:43:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_178716708484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_177946005124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Written and directed by Ace Cruz, the serial-killer thriller Fate plays out like a cross between David Fincher's dazzling Se7en and Gary Fleder's tepid Kiss the Girls, with a religious/sadistic fiend going around knocking off people,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~177946005124 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:02:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_177946005124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_176890285700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - In the sweet, spirited, endearing high-school comedy Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox is indelibly appealing as Scott Howard, a seventeen-year-old who's tired of being "average" in the eyes of his peers. Son of a widowed hardware-store-owner father, best... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~176890285700 Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:23:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_176890285700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_176397913732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Best of MacDaddy's 5th Year Anniversary gets off to such a bravura start that there's really no way it can sustain the euphoric high its beginning so undeniably gives off. Luckily, despite some occasional lapses and dead spots, it's more than... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~176397913732 Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:51:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_176397913732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175608991364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Grand Champion is a family film that certainly has its heart in the right place, but it's still a phony, dramatically-obvious, pandering-down-to miasma of various other (better) films that manages to be both overwritten and underdeveloped and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175608991364 Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:30:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175608991364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_173668273796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Summer Rental is one of the shoddiest-looking films I've ever had the displeasure of witnessing, and what's really telling is that it starts out looking shoddy in its overcast Chicago exteriors and still looks shoddy when it switches... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~173668273796 Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:28:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_173668273796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_174472007300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - After having recently suffered through an appallingly tepid Playboy video that was about as turn-me-on erotic as a sandpaper massage from a toothless hooker with a clubfoot, Penthouse's Pet of the Year Play-Off 2005 served as a most welcome... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~174472007300 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:39:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_174472007300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_174254165636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - If one is willing to shell out a fair amount of moola for a laptop computer, then one, it reasons, should also be willing to do the same for the carrying case that will be housing it while being transported, yes? The main question that arises is whether... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~174254165636 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:02:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_174254165636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_173911477892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Naughty in Nature is quite a ho-hum entry in Playboy's Exposed series that's fifty-seven minutes better spent surfing celebrity nude sites. We spend our time with seven young women decked out in short-shorts and tank tops as they disembark... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~173911477892 Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:25:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_173911477892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_172857659012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - At the beginning of the outstanding Ocean Front Property, a twentysomething man stands in the water right off the ocean shore one night contemplating suicide, to continue into the depths to drown out the quintessential misery he finds engulfing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~172857659012 Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:12:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_172857659012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_171136487044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - If ever there were a filmmaker ill-suited to adapt Gerald Walker&#146s fine 1970 novel Cruising, William Friedkin would most certainly poll near the top of the list. Here is a director who displayed in the excellent, hard-driving action pictures... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~171136487044 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:31:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_171136487044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_168062389892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - In the flawed but entertaining Heat, Burt Reynolds delivers one of his very best performances as Nick Escalante, an ex-mercenary and the only licensed &#147chaperone&#148 in the state of Nevada who may just be the most lethal man alive. Previously... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~168062389892 Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:51:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_168062389892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_167803195012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 isn&#146t exactly a groundbreaking, hardworking sequel or anything remotely of the like, but for what it is it&#146s awfully easy to like -- that is, if you&#146re a fan of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167803195012 Sat, 1 Jan 2005 19:45:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167803195012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_166797020804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - For the uninformed, after principal photography for Ridley Scott&#146s Blade Runner was completed and the film was put together in the editing room, it was decided by the studio heads that a voice-over narration was needed to clarify story points... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~166797020804 Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:14:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_166797020804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_158819847812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - The initial impression going into Buried in the Sand: The Deception of America is that it's going to explore the head-in-the-sand mentality of toe-the-line Bushies who've made it the rule rather than the exception to ignore inconvenient facts... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~158819847812 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:11:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_158819847812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_162223722116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Finding itself in perfect company with Charles B. Griffith's Up From the Depths and Sompote Sands' Crocodile, Richard Jefferies' Blood Tide is one of those low-budget Jaws rip-offs that has neither the imagination nor the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~162223722116 Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:51:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_162223722116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161738231428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - Until 1992's Under Siege, the black-belt aikido action star Steven Seagal's previous films -- Above the Law, Hard to Kill (both mediocre), Marked for Death, and Out for Justice (both pleasing) -- lacked memorable... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161738231428 Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:48:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161738231428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161450921604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - In Ridley Scott's magnificent Alien a group of intergalactic space jockeys stumbled across thousands of two-foot-high eggs inside a derelict alien spacecraft marooned on a distant planet, and when one of their overeager crew got too close to one,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161450921604 Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:47:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161450921604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161225346692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - C. Thomas Howell has always been a lightweight actor in the Rob Lowe vein: handsome, appealing, and sorely lacking in dramatic depth. Of course, this isn't necessarily detrimental when either he or Lowe appear in undemanding entertainments where dramatic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161225346692 Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:35:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161225346692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_160963792516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JackSommersby - The first fifteen minutes of When a Stranger Calls are fairly nerve-jangling stuff: a babysitter, Jill Johnson (played by Carol Kane), alone in the living room of a spacious two-story house where the owner's two young children are asleep upstairs,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~160963792516 Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:57:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_160963792516?linkin_id=8003929