Epinions Recent Reviews for TRISMEGISTOS

What May Be the World's First GOOD SF-Erotica Novel

Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:02:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - Warning: If you are easily offended, go pick up a copy of the Elric saga or something. This century's own Lovecraft, Paul diFilippo (Fuzzy Dice, Ribofunk, The Steampunk Trilogy has composed a moving, well-woven, utterly seamless sci-fi tribute...

Back Once Again

Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:53:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - I just rented, and thoroughly enjoyed, Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 2", in which most of the familiar cast returned to face a new villain. Even Big Willie Dafoe makes a return cameo as the Green Goblin ...aaand I better shut up right there, except to say...

You Can Get There From Here

Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:32:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - "Do not attempt to adjust your set. We control the horizontal. We control the vertical..." When you pick up _Fuzzy Dice_, the dated warning rings perfectly true. A nerdy, lonely bookstore clerk, who is absolutely underemployed and hating life, is...

Yeah, I Know, But

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:10:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - [EPINIONS STAFF: YOU DON'T MAKE YOURSELVES VERY ACCESSIBLE. I WILL START READING AND WRITING ON HERE AGAIN, BUT A LOT OF MY REVIEWS HAVE BEEN FROZEN AND OR NOT PROERLY CREDITED, PLEASE ADVISE.] Greetings once again, Epinionators. I have been out of...

Tommy..I Think They're Beginning to Like Ya!!!!

Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:02:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - "Funny Bones" is one of the most underrated movies ever made. It's one of those flicks you hear people talking about for years, and then someone finally pulls it off the shelf and throws it in at a party.

And then... it is like putting a...

I'll Have A Coke, Then

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:45:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - "What's crazy to me," Sean Patrick Flanery ("Powder") says to Norman Reedus ("Braveheart") and David Della Rocco (obviously a friend of Troy Duffy the writer), in the opening scene of 'Boondock Saints, "Is decent men with loving families who come home,...

Truth In Advertising

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:19:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - WHY

WHY

WHY

WHY

?!?!?WHY?!?!?!?

in the name of

GOD ALMIGHTY

was this movie billed as a COMEDY?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Someone please tell me. I don't get it.

All right. A lot of people have...

Dinner and a Show (muhahahaha)

Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:08:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - Director Bret Ratner has finally done Jonathan Demme's cinematic classic 'The Silence of the Lambs' the justice that it, and author Thomas Harris, so richly deserve.

Let's forget about the insulting, spineless piece of eye candy that was...

The Spider House Rules

Fri, 17 May 2002 13:13:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - Spiderman and the Green Goblin are battling on a bridge, Spiderman faced with the tragic ethical dilemma (lifted straight from an ethics text) of saving one person, saving a whole bunch of kids, or going after the criminal.

When what to our...

And I'm Never Going Back Into Myself

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 04:49:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - Director John Cameron Mitchell has managed to:

Create a musical with a level of hip irreverence and cartoon humor not seen until 'Moulin Rouge' came out a while later,

Look really hot as either sex, both directing from the floor,...

Thanks For the Memories

Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:26:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - Ahhhh, God amighty, where were you the first time you saw "Clerks"? I was sitting on my neighbor's couch with a tall can of Foster's lager. That tall can ended up, for the most part, being sprayed out of my nose from laughing so hard.

And now...

Ed Gein: The ABC Afterschool Special

Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:55:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - "Ed Gein" tells the story of Plainfield, WI serial killer Ed Gein, who murdered an estimated ten women (ballpark) and dug up many more in the years between 1945 and 1957.

NOW: We KNOW that Gein was the model for Norman Bates. Robert Bloch, one...

All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter

Mon, 31 Dec 2001 03:38:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - When I was a wee bairn, my Dad would shut off all the lights, burn candles and read to us from the works of a strange old Englishman who liked to write about pygmies with furry feet who smoke pipes and drink beer. The prose line was so instrumental to my...

I Need a Chaser!!!

Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:39:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - Did you ever get that not-so-fresh feeling?

...After "Quills", my girlfriend and I were obliged to watch the Marx Brothers' "A Day At the Races" just to clear our mental colons after this movie.

Don't get me wrong. Jeffrey...

5....7......23 1/2.....2....80....

Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:54:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - Where is the line between genius and autism, between talent and chemical imbalance? Is there a larger pattern to our civilization that could be grasped if only someone looked with unshielded eyes? What was the name of the movie with Ray Milland as Dr. X?...

Not With A Bang, But With A Whimper

Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:40:32 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - And now, Ethel Merman:

"Hoooooooooraaaaaay for Holllllywooooood...."

Hooray for Hollywood, where one of the most richly crafted psychological suspense novels ever put to paper in the latter half of the twentieth century can be hamstrung...

Yeah Buddy..Git Th Gluuuue

Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:21:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - "Contrivedly realistic?" This movie???

Whoever says that "Gummo" is contrivedly realistic must live in the Bay Area, or some other gated community without walls where the minimum income is 50K and poor people don't exist.

To paraphrase...

Work That Improv Runway

Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:53:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - First of all, anyone who prefaced a review with "Eww, he's wearing makeup..but he's really funny" should not presume to write reviews for the general public.You might find more relevant things to focus on. If I had a nickel for every male performer who...

Because They Can Can Can

Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:15:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - I know I’m going down in flames here.

But:

I have seen everyone else who reviewed this movie bandy about all sorts of charming little phrases like “MTV-inspired” . You must have had the same pompous geek prof that I did for Film 101, the...

I'll Bet She Slept Well That Night

Thu, 31 May 2001 16:10:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - In a much better and more carefully-crafted manner than the American ripoff 'Sliding Doors', 'Lola Rennt' ('Run, Lola, Run') is Tom Twyker's take on the Rod Serling/Fritz LEiber principle of changing the immediate past.

A stock device for a...

Homer Bucksnort's Iliad and the Oddity

Thu, 31 May 2001 15:56:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - "Them Sireens loved him up and then they turned him into a toad."

That line is the whole movie right there: the sophisticated understanding of Greek drama coupled with the hilariously slack-jawed tornado bait humor that the Coen Brothers have...

Mental Note...

Sat, 26 May 2001 16:23:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - Must not forget this is only a movie. Slotcar motor and disposable pen for tattoo gun to tattoo it on myself somewhere that I must not forget this is only a movie.

Must remember that this is the same Guy Pearce from "Priscilla: Queen of the...

The Unfinished Dance

Thu, 24 May 2001 22:23:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - As one eloquent reviewer put it so charmingly, "This movie bites"...you right in the buttocks. If you were not expecting standard Hollywood glop. If you were, there's plenty of it out there.

Lars von Trier set out to use digital video much the...

Like All Good Punk Rock Faerytales..

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:49:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - ...This one more or less hinges around the log line:"We were all wasted this one night, and.."

First off, what I DIDN'T like:

My foot in the world of punk rock shows me a world that was never that brightly lit. It's like the...

The Glory That Was Rome

Thu, 4 Jan 2001 06:02:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TRISMEGISTOS - This is not your father's Steve Reeves movie.

I just got done watching "Gladiator". You will probably need a moment to come back to the present day afterward. The scope of this production makes "Ben Hur" look like a...