Epinions Recent Reviews for PKWBassGuy

This book is more awesome than someone landing on your Boardwalk with a Hotel !!

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:44:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - Yours truly is not your everyday Monopoly player. So much so that no one will play with me anymore-- despite how much I collect all thing Monopoly. !! ( ties, towels, washcloths, afghans, comforters. etc etc. ) And so many times people will ask me...

Untitled J.J. Abrams Project: The triumph over the Macguffin !!

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:28:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - For those unfamiliar with this term--- Macguffin refers to something: an identity revelation, a seeing of something heretofore unseen by a viewer.. etc etc.. upon which a movie's plot hinges. Macguffins might be called the already pulled-pin grenades...

Not worth Jack.

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:11:59 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - TITLE : IT's not worth Jack Fifteen years ago I totally believed the touching hype this dreck of a movie that emanated from its trailer. Therefore , upon my very bad choice , some colleagues of mine and I saw this movie between two out of town...

T is for a terribly terrifying villain !

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:01:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - The alphabet -monikered murder mysteries by Sue Grafton about the no-nonsense ( and for the most part drably humorless ) Kinsey Milhone are like the qualified comfort of an old friend or relative--- you are certainly glad to see them and for their...

Goofily Fun and full of Garish Grand Gugniol!!

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:19:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - If you are not remotely familiar with the films of Ken Russell, this movie is an excellent work with which to dive into the pool of surreal phantasmagoria this director always creates. His movies at times tend to be incoherent in spots, because he...

Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms: The reluctant classic.

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:49:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - While there is no doubt this book, like the other two of Hemingway's warhorse novels ( The Sun Also Rises and For Whom The Bell Tolls, both of which I plan to review here as well) -- are indeed classics, I realized something shocking upon my...

Plum short-- but Plum fun !!

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:39:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - It's such a refreshing delight that now Janet Evanovich is putting out these little tidbit continuations of the numerically named Stephanie Plum comedy crime capers in between the usual June arrivals and publications of her main works in the series...

Welcome HOME Father Tim...

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:10:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - WARNING : This review contains spoilers for the seven books in the series that preclude this book. ( A few of which can be found in the older reviews in my list.) While it certainly wasn't the literary monumental earthquake that the...

This is a facelift in a bottle!!

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:01:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - Something amazing happened when I was in Las Vegas for my yearly trip for my birthday. It was indeed my 40th birthday and even with all the lack of sleep and excessive partying -- a lot of my pals for encouragement would ask strangers the following :...

Not all that heroic.

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:42:18 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - Picture it. ( Pun Intended) It is mid to late 1977 and the first movie that I have seen that I can remember in my 4th grade year is Star Wars -- ((first that I have seen INSIDE that is -- ( everything I saw that I can remember before that was...

Guys don't have to have gross feet !!-- Part Two

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:19:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - As stated in my review for which this one serves as sort of a " sequel", ( see : http://www.epinions.com/
review/Iced_Teaberry_Mint_Foot
_Scrub/content_416625233540
) there has...

Just takes patience...

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:44:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - Ya’ know?... Forget Cockroaches!!– Some bio-mechanics scientist needs to study what makes GNATS so godawfully indestructible. A few weeks ago right around Xmas a friend was house-sitting my apartment and he inadvertently left out some open...

Guys don't have to have gross feet !!

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:17:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - Face it, even if you are not prone to looking downward, I am sure you have noticed a very unfortunate side effect to this overwhelming rage of flip flops and other kinds of sandals on guys in the past several years– the fact that we have to cast a...

A Remarkable Achievement

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:57:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - It's always a thrill when a book from an author I wasn't previously familiar with turns out to be a fantastic one-- even with one big issue going against it from the start-- it's flat out miraculous when the book has THREE things going against it...

Picoult Files #3 of 6 THE PLAIN TRUTH

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:13:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - ( This is my general intro that starts each of my reviews in this series, if you have already read any of these reviews please skip down to " ABOUT THE PLAIN TRUTH " ) If there is a popular best-selling author whose work better exhibits that usually...

A Fiery Classic.

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:28:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - The word that leaps to mind most intensely upon my recent rewatching of this 1958 masterpiece is.. HEAT-- and not for title-pun reasons. It seems that heat is the driving force and indeed the total gestalt of this whole script and the iconic...

The Picoult Files : #2 of 6-- Vanishing Acts

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:04:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - ( This is my general intro that starts each of my reviews in this series, if you have already read any of these reviews please skip down to " ABOUT VANISHING ACTS" ) If there is a popular best-selling author whose work better exhibits that...

The perfect combo of literate and " pop".

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:41:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - GENERAL INTRO : ((For this set of six reviews on the works of Jodi Picoult -- I am cutting and pasting the same general intro-- if you have read one of this planned series already .. skip down to the " ABOUT SALEM FALLS" section.)) If there is a...

Quite Simply, A Miracle.

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:00:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - The title of this review really says it all about this movie. There are so many ways the movie version of ANY musical can outright be a disaster. You can have superstars ( witness Barbara Streisand in the appalling movie version of " Hello Dolly") ,...

Yes.. but NO.

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:53:12 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - While my general reaction is that of negativity with my experience with Continental Airlines--- a VERY recent experience that is -- I just got off a flight of theirs coming back from Las Vegas for my yearly birthday trip-- I realized I have caught...

Judith McNaught - Someone to Watch over Me: What she needed to watch over her-- was an editor.

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:58:27 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - I usually certainly never want to give away EVERYTHING in a book , even if I am giving it as dreadful a "Don't read this silliness" point of view as strong as the one I am giving this novel in this Epinion. But here I am indeed going to do so , so...

V for Vendetta: V is for VERY surprising !!!

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:49:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - Dystopia , as it were, is cited by various dictionaries as the antonym of Utopia. The London of the not-terribly-distant future presented by this thrilling flick is something that indeed fits this textbook definition of “Dystopian.” London is run by a...

I'd rather eat a rock than watch this again.

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:35:03 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - So far in my survey of writing articles reviewing the ton of movies I was blessed enough to enjoy at last December’s Butt-Numb-A-Thon, a 25-hour-ish cinematic fest at the famed Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, I have cited the sublime (see below for links to...

Bang the UN-PC Drum LOUDLY!!

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:50:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - Welcome to Roots made around a year earlier through the twisted lens of Dino DeLaurentis – who you might say takes the noble solemnity of Alex Haley’s miniseries subject and pre-re-makes the subject matter into borderline porn through some sort...

It's 3, 3, THREE movies in ONE !!!

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:53:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PKWBassGuy - The title of this review refers , yes , to this weighty, powerful, and completely soul-eclipsing blockbuster film’s length. ( Significantly over three hours.) But not only does Mr. Jackson and crew so mesmerize you from beginning to end with their...