Epinions Recent Reviews for PMellEagle

Peretti's "V" is for VICTORY and Veritas!

Fri, 25 May 2001 17:37:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - The Veritas Project: Hangman's Curse is apparently the first of a new series by Frank Peretti. I read it as it was a gift from someone who knew I liked Peretti's earlier works, especially "This Present Darkness," and assumed I'd like anything Peretti...

'Berries JAM! Age Better than Wine!

Fri, 4 May 2001 10:30:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - A Generation in the Making... the legendary Raspberries return with their first album in a quarter century!

Wally Bryson, Scott McCarl, and Dave Smalley are and were 3/6 of the four-man band known as Raspberries... THE...

The Verdict: The TRIAL is Worth Reading!

Thu, 3 May 2001 16:06:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Peter Thomason has a problem... a very serious problem! He is discovered staggering away from the scene of a traffic accident, incoherent and with the car's key in his pocket. Inside the car is the body of Angela Hightower, daughter of the...

All Thrusters Do Not Fire for Space Cowboys

Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:06:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - You can't beat the star-power of this one... the original four astronauts... potentially... get another chance to reach for the stars as the rescue-mission-team to salvage a crippled Russian "communications satelite" that...

Rescuing the Maiden in the Tower

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:14:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Robert B. Parker scored another solid hit with A Catskill Eagle, a "Spenser" novel from 1985... This one involves the "rescue" of Spenser's long time sweetie, Susan Silverman from the clutches of one Russell Costigan, a rich, millionaire,...

Left Behind Series in a Reader's Digest Condensed Books Format!

Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:30:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Pat Robertson writes a pretty good novel... for the first half of the book... then you get the feeling of impending doom (either the pending Armageddon OR the pending publishers deadline?)

The End of the Age is Robertson's...

When Nights Are Forever...Then Love Is The Answer

Mon, 9 Apr 2001 02:32:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - In the mid-70's, England Dan & John Ford Coley blasted their way up the charts from out of nowhere with a pair of powerful love songs, "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" and "Nights are Forever Without You". RHINO Records...

Steinman's Bad for Good is Good For Music Lovers!

Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:37:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Nobody writes a song like Jim Steinman does!

I could stop my review there and suggest strongly that you locate a copy of this CD... it's that good... but some of you would have questions... like:

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Truly the Lesser of Two Evils!

Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:55:06 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Billy the Kid vs. Dracula... even the name makes you want to guffaw! Then to see John Carradine in the credits... well, what did you expect...

I saw this movie years ago, on a late night "Creature Feature" back in...

Need a Laugh or 2? This Movie is 4 U!

Sat, 31 Mar 2001 03:45:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Initially I rented "Pure Luck" out of morbid curiosity... I wondered how bad a movie it would be.

I mean, imagine... who in their right mind would cast Danny Glover and Martin Short as the stars of the same movie?...

Many Fans Are Lost Without Their BREAD

Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:07:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - For a brief time in the Early '70's, Bread was a staple of one's musical diet. It seemed that anything they released was destined for the top ten, several songs, like Baby I'm-A-Want You, If, Everything I Own, and Diary became overnight...

FOX News IS as Fair and Unbiased as NEWS GETS... Read This and YOU DECIDE

Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:34:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Sure, Bill O'Reilley is no doubt conservative leaning. Sure Sean Hannity IS unashamedly conservative (but Colmes is there for balance... who's fault is it that he's outclassed and outgunned on most issues?

Where is the...

BMG = Bargain Music Group... BUT You Get What You Pay For!

Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:37:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Over the Past Three Decades, Eric Carmen has been involved as an artist and/or a writer for many classic songs, hit's by Celine Dion, Shaun Cassidy, Mike Reno & Nancy Wilson; of course by his former band, the Raspberries and All...

Capitol REMEMBERS The Raspberries!

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:17:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Unlike a "greatest hits" album, Capitol Collectors Series - The Raspberries does not limit itself to replaying the songs that the casual listener might know... rather they include the bands greatest hits... in this case "Go All...

Romantic Ballads and Rockin' Tunes: Eric Carmen is Back!

Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:17:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - I Was Born To Love You is the American issue of a Japanese album released the year before Winter Dreams) It's been a long time coming for the man who gave us "All By Myself", "Hungry Eyes", "Make Me Lose Control" and the...

2 Astronauts and the Navel Academy

Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:39:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Yeah, it's true... in the 60's it was most risque for Barbara Eden to show her navel on television... like we were dreaming of Jeannie's belly-button...

The beauty of this show is that Barbara Eden played Jeannie, the genie-in-a-bottle that...

6 Words Short of Perfection

Sat, 3 Mar 2001 01:09:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Finding Forrester is a wonderful tale of life's hopes and life's disappointments told thru the dark & tragic life of a Pulitzer winning author and the bright hopes for a better life of a "wrong side of the tracks" teenager from the Bronx...
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Underachieving Stars Scale New Heights!

Tue, 27 Feb 2001 02:15:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Chris O'Donnell.

Bill Paxton.

Scott Glenn.

These three men have at one time or another been the lead in decent motion pictures. Their talent is not in question, but their stars have never truly risen in Hollywood...

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of Chevy's/Rio Bravo's

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:31:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - First let me state that this review is based on last nights dinner at Rio Bravo, which is the same company as Chevy's (the company is gradually changing over their chain...)

For the past several years my wife and I have been Don Pablo's...

A Show For Detective Manics: Mannix

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:21:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - My parents were big into Detective shows when I was growing up. As a one-tv household (Yes Virginia, there WAS such a thing once...) I either watched what they watched or did without!

So I saw Mannix week in and week out. My memory of...

Small Vices Fed My Hunger for a NEW SPENSER NOVEL!

Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:15:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Robert B. Parker's great-American detective, Spenser, reaches a new level in Small Vices. For those who have grown older with the sleuth, it comes as no surprise that he is willing to take on the case of a small-time criminal jailed for a murder he...

Tune IN... Frequency is a GREAT Movie!

Tue, 6 Feb 2001 00:20:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - I gotta admit, I was a bit skeptical when I was told that this was a "must see" movie, but on a recent Saturday night I wandered the local video rental store and decided that this was the night I'd find out!

Reading on the rental...

O'Really O'Reilly?

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:38:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Sometimes when you really anticipate reading a book, you are disappointed. This was not one of those times!

I had heard of Bill O'Reilly before; in fact during the recent Presidential campaign season, he became a nightly fixture on my...

Not too much of the book gets Left Behind in this superb movie.

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:20:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - Oft times one reads a great book and is left disappointed by the movie; this is not one of those cases. Left Behind lives up to the incredible promise of the immensely popular book series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

The...

Spenser Ages Better Than Wine!

Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:33:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author PMellEagle - In Robert B. Parkers latest Spenser installment, we find our hero headed for the deep south to head up security for a race horse. In the process the horse survives but it's owner turns up dead!

Spenser, the sleuth we're all growing older...