© 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-SKAD13 Recent reviews written by member SKAD13 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_472226041476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - If you are a silent-film buff - or if you simply enjoy vivid characterization and sprawling imagery - Glen David Gold's "Sunnyside" ($26.95, Alfred A. Knopf) is the novel for you. It's "Ragtime" for early-movie fanatics. Evidently, Gold never... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472226041476 Sat, 30 May 2009 16:13:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472226041476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468714163844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - In a sadly fertile field, Laurel and Hardy: They’re Still Funny is by far the biggest rip-off of any book ever associated with the classic comedy duo. Its multitude of sins begins with its inexplicably defensive title and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468714163844 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:25:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468714163844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_455854100100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - I am of two minds after reading The Final Film of Laurel & Hardy. On the one hand, the book is a meticulously researched and detailed history of L&H's final theatrical movie. On the other hand, considering how mostly unbearable the book's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~455854100100 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:22:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_455854100100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_452288810628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - Buster Keaton's classic -- dare I say epic? -- silent comedy The General (1927) has just received a sterling DVD release from New York's Kino Video ($30). I can't recommend a better stocking-stuffer for your friendly film buff.The movie is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~452288810628 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:58:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_452288810628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_444742471300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux; $26) begins with the sad story of Janice Valleau Winkleman, who retired to Florida after losing the comic-book-artist job she... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~444742471300 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:26:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_444742471300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437831765636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - The same critics who got all misty-eyed at the return of Indiana Jones are carping about the lack of plausibility in Journey to the Center of the Earth. How is it, for example, that the movie's hero comes upon a century-old, abandoned mine shaft... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437831765636 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:38:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437831765636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435709513348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - My son was instantly entranced by WALL-E. I, being the snobby movie reviewer, felt skepticalabout it at first. I should have gone with the kid's instinct all along. The title character's name is an acronym for Waste Allocation Load... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435709513348 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:36:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435709513348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434549001860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - I don't wish to add to the controversy that already surrounds Mike Myers' comedy The Love Guru. So I'll briefly describe the plot, then I'll list the movie's virtues (of which there are a few) and its debits (of which there are more). Myers... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434549001860 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:22:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434549001860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432271036036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - At the start of Kung Fu Panda, Po -- a chubby panda voiced by Jack Black – gets locked out of a kung-fu match that will determine his village's next "dragon master." Po goes through all manner of contortions just trying to get a glimpse of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432271036036 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:50:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432271036036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431530610308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - If you can't make it to Sex & the City: The Movie, you might want to check out when Carrie Bradshaw was a social outcast. If you've never heard of "Square Pegs," blame CBS for cancelling, after a single season, one of TV's most quirky, original... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431530610308 Mon, 26 May 2008 20:44:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431530610308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430537739908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - (SPOILERS?: Some set-pieces are described in the next-to-last full paragraph; otherwise, nothing major.) The fourth Indiana Jones movie is as much fun as you'd hope it would be. But when you think about the movie later, it holds... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430537739908 Sun, 18 May 2008 18:43:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430537739908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_422213357188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - Horton Hears a Who! is the first movie adaptation that truly "gets" Dr. Seuss. Other than a few, blessedly brief attempts at hip jokes, this movie really feels as though it takes place deep inside a Seuss book. The animation is splendidly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~422213357188 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:37:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_422213357188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_411775045252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - Considering how popular National Treasure (2004) was, The Disney Co. snuck its sequel, NT: Book of Secrets, into theaters as though it should be wrapped in a brown-paper bag. That's too bad, because the movie is a whale of a fun time in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~411775045252 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:45:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_411775045252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_410988744324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - I came to Sweeney Todd with a clean slate, as it were. I'd never seen any of the previous stage or screen versions, and I'm generally adverse to the archly ironic style of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim. All of that said, I was thoroughly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~410988744324 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:39:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_410988744324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_410217254532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - (FOREWARNING: Yes, I saw the same movie you did. If you don't agree, don't plan on trusting this review. -- SKAD13) I don't know your opinion on gun control, but where Hollywood’s lack of imagination is concerned, I'd say there’s a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~410217254532 Sun, 9 Dec 2007 20:14:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_410217254532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409322032772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - If Sidney Lumet -- the veteran director responsible for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead -- thinks his movie is unique and spellbinding, apparently he hasn’t seen Reservoir Dogs. Like Dogs, Devil concerns a seemingly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409322032772 Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:51:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409322032772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407965634180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - Although the two documentaries' subject matter couldn't be more different, My Kid Could Paint That has a lot in common with The King of Kong, released earlier this year. The subject of Kong was an amateur video-game player who... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407965634180 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:22:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407965634180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407627665028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - If you haven't heard of a movie named Lions for Lambs -- despite its starring Robert Redford (who also directed), Tom Cruise, and Meryl Streep -- there's a good reason. The movie is based upon a four-letter word that's almost totally forbidden... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407627665028 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:06:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407627665028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407553085060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - It's astonishing how far dysfunctional families will go to convince themselves that they’re not living a lie. In American Gangster, the dysfunctional family is the American heroin market. The head of the family is druglord Frank Lucas (Denzel... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407553085060 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:12:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407553085060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405575929476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - By now, you've heard that Michael Clayton stars George Clooney. But for a huge stretch of the movie, he gets shunted aside via the overacting of Tom Wilkinson. Wilkinson plays Arthur Edens, a high-priced lawyer. Edens' firm is representing a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405575929476 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:02:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405575929476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405561511556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - Despite its place in movie history, The Jazz Singer (1927; DVD release, 10/16/07) must be approached with a caution usually reserved for radioactivity. Definitely rent this one before you invest in the three-disc DVD set. The backstory is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405561511556 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:42:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405561511556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_403305500292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - Ten minutes into The King of Kong, you'll ask yourself, "Why am I watching a documentary about nerdy gamers?" By movie's end, you'll realize you're watching the Rocky of video games. Many peripheral characters inhabit this movie, but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403305500292 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:03:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403305500292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_403238129284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - Call me overly reverent if you must. But the music of The Beatles means a great deal to several generations of listeners, and I am sad and angry to see it so thoroughly mangled in Across the Universe The movie's bald literalness and its... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403238129284 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:38:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403238129284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402154294916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - With the recent DVD release of the first five years of Fleischer Studios' Popeye cartoons, it would be grand if there was a book to serve as a companion piece for viewers' research into these delightful shorts. Thus far, however, I've been able to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402154294916 Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:34:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402154294916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_401307307652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author SKAD13 - If I had a nickel for every time someone has asked me, "Don’t you like any movies?", I could retire from writing about movies. This time, I’ll make you a deal: I'll tell you how much I really liked a small, simply-told movie if you'll go out... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~401307307652 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:45:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_401307307652?linkin_id=8003929