© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-Mattachine Recent reviews written by member Mattachine en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_432378973828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - We all know that the Sex and the City series is a wildly fantastical version of New York, right? That no one really lives like Carrie and the girls, and in the real world Samantha would have had a case of HPV and/or HSV to contend with in addition... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432378973828 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:51:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432378973828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430707543684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Insect and rodent bites. Small town and big city. Young, angsty people. Mysterious men with mysterious origins. Conflict. Murder. Rape. Crash derby free for alls. What's not to love in Rant? First I'll say that I highly recommend this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430707543684 Tue, 20 May 2008 00:44:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430707543684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429550964356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Calliope Stephanides is a little girl growing up in Detroit in the 60’s, or at least she thinks she is as she has nothing else to go on. The family doctor misses a slight difference in her genitalia when she is born, and her parents raise her without... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429550964356 Sat, 10 May 2008 17:37:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429550964356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_428340973188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Oh, people love to hate on Madonna, but a great many also love her enough to keep her around all these years. Hard Candy is Madonna’s return – what Confessions on a Dancefloor was said to be – to her roots in dance music. In fact, this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~428340973188 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:24:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_428340973188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427000630916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Many years ago, the manuscript for the "Gospel of Judas" was found, yet it was only in recent years that it emerged, heavily damaged, and found its way into the hands of scholars, and out of the control of archeological pirates. That's neither here nor... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427000630916 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:12:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427000630916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426827681412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - My previous trip's plane reading was The God of Animals, which I can't stop thinking about. This is a great novel about a 12 year old girl's "coming of age" on her family's horse ranch. It is an amazing piece of writing that makes me want to sit... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426827681412 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:39:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426827681412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426827353732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - My plane reading for the trip here was I Am Legend by Richard Matheson which was really good. The book also includes several short stories after the novella, that are not mentioned on the cover of this version. I haven&#146t seen the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426827353732 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:30:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426827353732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_355520384644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - I have been reading the The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which is the most recent Oprah&#146s Book Club selection. To prevent anyone from saying anything negative about Oprah Winfrey, let me remind you that she is a legend. Lots of people... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~355520384644 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:54:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_355520384644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_263501418116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - They’ve been showing Misery on cable a lot lately so I wanted to review it, even though it’s an old movie. I’ve read several of Steven King’s books, and I think he is a great author with a great story telling voice. Indeed, it is what’s made... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~263501418116 Mon, 9 Oct 2006 00:20:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_263501418116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_219854442116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - I'm the kind of gay person who goes into a movie with the themes "gay" and "cowboy" with trepidation. But I went to see Brokeback Mountain anyway to support the Gay Agend--I mean, because I heard it was really good. I was not disappointed. This... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~219854442116 Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:28:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_219854442116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_214363311748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Anne Rice's latest novel, Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt draws from her research into the apocrypha, particularly the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which, from what I understand, was written between 80 AD and the 6th Century. She also draws from the New... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~214363311748 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:15:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_214363311748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_182238154372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Harry G. Frankfurt is perhaps one of our greatest living philosophers. He is probably best known for his essay "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" and subsequent updates and reconsiderations of the argument therein. He has published... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~182238154372 Thu, 5 May 2005 10:30:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_182238154372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155442908804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Mommie Dearest was meant to be Christina Crawford’s revenge. This movie, based on her book of the same name, was written after the death of her mother, the Queen of Hollywood. At the end of Joan Crawford’s life, she willed nothing to her... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155442908804 Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:12:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155442908804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155135348356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - I have to give Quentin Tarantino some credit. I know he&#146s a little obsessed with the &#147kung fu narrative&#148. Actually, I thought that his name was associated with this movie because he directed it--silly me!--but in fact he simply... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155135348356 Mon, 13 Sep 2004 01:07:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155135348356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_154389548676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - We live in the age of the blog. These days many people feel the need to put the mundane details of their lives on the internet for all the world to read. Their shopping lists. What they had for breakfast. How badly they hate their jobs. Squabbles... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~154389548676 Sat, 4 Sep 2004 15:43:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_154389548676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_152766156420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - In short, this movie, based on Richard Condon's best selling novel of the same title, is brilliant. Brilliant acting, direction, writing, and casting. It immediately became one of my all time favorite films. The plot is a kind of soft... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~152766156420 Sun, 22 Aug 2004 03:07:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_152766156420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_152515284612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - If I have to make "packets" for another presentation or training, I might lose my mind. Nonetheless, the standard in our office for these types of things are Duo-Tang folders. They are a little pricey for folders. Here on Epinions, they're listed at... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~152515284612 Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:31:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_152515284612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_151696150148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - The other night I was watching Terminator 3 with a friend, and I commented on how once you've accepted the story that is happening--robots from the future come back in time to either kill or protect their future enemies--some of the action still... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~151696150148 Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:55:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_151696150148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_151271935620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - In New York City, when you enter your local Rite Aid, you are generally ignored by the staff, except for the security guard who might stalk you a little bit to make sure you're not shoplifting, if you're an emaciated long-haired street tramp like myself... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~151271935620 Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:56:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_151271935620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_150113455748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - We can all relate to the desire to escape the rat race, the "drearies and normals", and become full-time fun seekers, with no cares in the world. Of course, most of us don't factor drug addiction into that fantasy, and even the most fantastical... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~150113455748 Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:16:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_150113455748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_149981073028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - I Robot Ghost in the Machine There was an excellent article in The Slate recently, which spoke to the issue of this movie being nothing like the anthology of stories, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, in that Asimov saw technology as a great good... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~149981073028 Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:29:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_149981073028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_149941292676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Catwoman had the potential to be great. An iconic character, an Acadamy Award winning beauty in the title role, Sharon Stone in a return to Basic Instinct evilness, and lots of cute cats. However, the romance-filled script and shoddy direction... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~149941292676 Sun, 1 Aug 2004 02:55:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_149941292676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_135268437636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - Charlize Theron said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that she didn’t think of Aileen Wuornos as a lesbian. She had sex with men without pay and had had relationships with men before her serial killing began. Rather than a lesbian, she was someone... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~135268437636 Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:18:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_135268437636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_133500210820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - I have to agree with Ingmar Bergman, who called Portrait of Jason (1967) "the most fascinating movie I have ever seen." This film is 105 minutes of Jason Holliday--a name he assumed over the course of his street life--talking about himself,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~133500210820 Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:59:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_133500210820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_132522282628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Mattachine - The Passion of the Christ First, let me please implore you not to take your toddler to see the systematic torture and eventual crucifixtion of the Son of Man. It's just irritating to hear you child scream in horror to the rest of us, who are... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~132522282628 Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:12:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_132522282628?linkin_id=8003929