Epinions Recent Reviews for OReviewLius

Amelia...Let Your Fancy Fly!

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:11:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Remember the days when the captain of your flight actually knew where he was, and would grace the passengers with an update every now and then? "To your left is the deepest fresh water hole in the United States... Crater Lake." I don’t know about...

Who Gives a 'Hulk'

Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:55:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - The ‘Hulk’ with it All! I suppose it was the record-breakin...

The Gilded Beast Within Us All

Sat, 18 May 2002 00:01:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - There is nothing particularly 'unfaithful' to reality in this new film by Adrian Lyne and this is what makes it so uncannily unnerving. Usually, at least in American films, female infidelity has some sort of "raison d'etre" behind it, such as marital or...

"Onwards and Upwards, always onwards and upwards"

Sat, 15 Dec 2001 17:45:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Courage, compassion, and most of all, foresight, are human qualities that are too often relegated to the "should've, would've, could've" world of hindsight and reflections on what might have been. So it is gratifying to experience the enactment of these...

Refuse...Refused!

Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:37:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Bread and Roses is one of those films that every American should see, but won't. It is a film that should be part of every high school Social Studies curriculum, but isn't. Besides tackling an essential issue of modern labor and corporate ethics, the...

The Film that Wasn't There (and the problem that is)

Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:59:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - "The Film that Wasn’t There"… (and the problem that is)

No wonder the world continues to punish itself with unending violence. As...

$100,000,000 ROBOTIC RUSE

Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:10:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Every once in a while, as if to reassure its audiences that there is a real world out there with real problems to be solved, Hollywood ventures into films like Erin Brockovich, or gives us another dose of interesting but politically innocuous history in...

Wondrously Superficial

Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:08:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - I must admit that I was doing a lot of "wondering" during this quippy portrait of university life… sometime during the last third of the 20th century. Basically, I was wondering if the screenwriter or director actually had any real experience...

All About Too Much

Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:59:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - All about some really screwed up people is more like it. Hey, if you’re into trans-sexual prostitution, violence, fun with Nuns, transplants, implants, Aids and all the wondrous territory that goes along with it, then this film is for you. But in all...

Rebel Faith

Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:22:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - I used to think, as an angry young man, that a rebellion against God was the only way to make things right in a world that seemed corrupt from the get-go. After all, didn’t the bible tell us so? But now that I am an angry middle-aged man, I see the error...

Take Stock

Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:10:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - The United States is a country born in a response to excess. From its origins as a religious haven to its revolution against the inordinate constraints and exploitation by its colonial masters, Americans’ "rights," to freedoms of all sorts, has...

Positively Negative

Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:30:24 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - A gripping film that ultimately doesn’t let go. Instead of taking

the viewer into a higher realm of ontological possibility it chooses

instead to...

Take that, Henry Higgins!

Sat, 12 Feb 2000 13:55:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius -

Those Brits! They may have been the most imperious of imperialists but they sure had a command of their language…as William Gilbert demonstrates here, not only in his sardonic tongue-twisting librettos but as an English gentleman of both humility...

The "rules" don't always rule

Sat, 12 Feb 2000 13:18:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Beautifully constructed tale of a New England orphanage in the heart of World War Two and more to the point, the sublime symmetry of the multi-layered moral choices that its characters make.

Rarely do we see a film in which good and evil are...

A War Within a War

Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:42:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Indeed! There is plenty of it, gently embracing the Redwood graced Pacific Northwest, 5 years after the end of World War Two. And with the fierceness of the winter storms, Robert Richardson’s stupendous cinematography, caressing the meticulous sets, we...

Blow by Blow Biography

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:35:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - I remember hearing bits and pieces about "Hurricane Carter" back in the 60's and 70's but never paid it no real mind. Even Bob Dylan's single evoking the miscarriage of justice... perpetrated so ignominiously on this free swinging slugger.....

Teenage theater

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:20:42 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - The fact that this film receives my 'ND' rating does not necessarily recommend it. It is, indeed, 'not depressing' but whatever else it is...is somewhat elusive. I suppose you have to appreciate the main characters...a 15 year-old precocious bespectacled...

Inane Necessities

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:07:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Yeah, There's something about slender, slinky blondes with affable countenances. They'll get you every time...as Cameron Diaz does in this ribald, low comedy farce.

Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller play a couple of her hapless admirers but there...

Through a lens darkly

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:31:58 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - While watching this film I was hoping for a miracle, of sorts. The miracle of light! Either the particular print that was shipped to this theater, or by intention, the film that I saw was ensconced in darkness. Perhaps it was a deliberate aesthetic...

Therapists Wanted

Thu, 27 Jan 2000 01:23:00 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Nick Nolte plays Wade Whitehouse...a guy who really needs a therapist.(or two)...probably ones that specializes in child abuse, drugs and alcohol. But where are they in this Northern New Hampshire town?

The son of Glen Whitehouse, Wade is a...

Safe and Silly

Thu, 27 Jan 2000 01:16:19 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Here is a film that settles for a few good laughs. Instead of using its comedic touches to lighten up some truly darker themes, "Analyze This" plays it safe and silly. Dealing with two of our culture’s most problematic realities…organized crime...

Young People Today

Thu, 27 Jan 2000 01:08:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, a plane crash, a hurricane and a travelogue of obstacles to the impending fate of our protagonists provide the "forces of nature" in this amusing romantic comedy.

The dialogue is crisp, the...

Fast Friends in the Fast Lane

Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:41:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Anyone who has spent time in their younger years "drifting," "crashing" and trying to eclipse the monotonous tyranny of "the system" will relate to the archetypal conflict so powerfully articulated in Erick Zonca's first...

Feminism meets Fascism

Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:34:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - Another "period" piece that recreates the ambience of the times better than it engages the viewer with the drama. Perhaps more tea with Mussolini would give this semi-autobiographical look at Zeffirelli's childhood a bit more grit. As it...

Digital Disaster

Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:49:06 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author OReviewLius - This film is a menace all right, but unfortunately it's no phantom. It's everywhere! Playing in supersonic-histrionic, 12-channel digital, THX multi-orgasmic-panoramic sensory-assault 6- dimensional sight and sound.

Admittedly, I only stepped...