© 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-alexdg1 Recent reviews written by member alexdg1 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_476154596996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - When I bought the three-disc, six episode set of PBS' 1997 Liberty! The American Revolution, I found it to be a somewhat uneven account of the War of Independence which emphasized style over substance.While it has a great cast of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476154596996 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:11:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476154596996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475894091396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - As fresh and original as George Lucas' Star Wars (a.k.a Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope) looked and felt to its audience over 30 years ago, it really is a good example of how a creative artist can "borrow" themes, character archetypes... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475894091396 Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:30:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475894091396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475657899652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Although Fox's action-adventure/political thriller/serial drama 24 is still, after seven complete seasons on broadcast televisions, one of the better "must-see" shows in the early 21st Century, its longevity is proving to be both a curse and a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475657899652 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:20:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475657899652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474618367620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Perhaps it's a sobering - even sad - commentary on the quality of American public schools, especially when it comes to how much we learn about history at the upper levels, but I was not surprised when I heard Nathan Alexander stating that before he... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474618367620 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:36:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474618367620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474141855364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Besides the dreaded "chick flicks" and "beyond sophomorically moronic spoofs," f there's one Hollywood genre that I tend to avoid - consciously or not - it's the "private investigator who gets caught in a web of intrigue while on what seems to be a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474141855364 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:24:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474141855364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473914904196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - In the summer of 1988, around the same time when I was wrapping up my Spring Term classes at Miami-Dade Community College and getting set to go on my study-abroad trip to Spain, 20th Century Fox released two films which I never saw on the big screen but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473914904196 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:56:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473914904196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472786439812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Ask anyone who knows me well - or read enough of my online missives and musings - about my reading habits, and you'll probably come away with the impression that I don't read too many books written by women unless they are Star Trek or Star... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472786439812 Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:15:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472786439812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472441982596?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - One of the saddest, if rather unavoidable, facts of life I've had to learn as an avid movie watcher and film critic is that even the best talents in Hollywood are often associated with movies that were made with good intentions but nevertheless are... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472441982596 Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:28:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472441982596?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471195094660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - It is, perhaps, a truism of television watchers everywhere, but it's often been said that if a series goes on long enough, it will have more than its fair share of weak episodes or even an "off" season.Take Star Trek: The Original Series,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471195094660 Thu, 21 May 2009 13:59:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471195094660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470979874436?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - It's hard to believe that almost 25 years have passed since Columbia Pictures (now part of Sony's multimedia empire) first released director Fred Schepsi's Roxanne, a gentle and offbeat adaptation of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470979874436 Tue, 19 May 2009 14:20:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470979874436?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470150647428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Considering that years that end with the number 9 have been, for good or ill, somewhat fateful for Gene Roddenberry's now 43-year-old Star Trek franchise, it's perhaps fitting and proper that director J.J. Abrams' eponymous feature film be... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470150647428 Tue, 12 May 2009 14:33:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470150647428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469593591428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - In the early 1990s, after the completion of what was then the Indiana Jones film trilogy and before pre-production work began on the Star Wars "prequels," George Lucas decided to carry out a bold experiment that would simultaneously satisfy fans'... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469593591428 Thu, 7 May 2009 14:10:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469593591428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469021724292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - When I took a creative writing class in 1987 - the same year which saw the release of Steven Spielberg's film version of Empire of the Sun - our professor, David Schroeder, told us that the most basic advice he could give us as writing students... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469021724292 Sat, 2 May 2009 13:33:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469021724292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468585320068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - If you've scanned the New York Times' Best Sellers list while reading your Sunday paper over the past 10 years or so, you've probably noticed the name "Nicholas Sparks."Since 1995 - when his novel The Notebook was first published -... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468585320068 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:10:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468585320068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_467238293124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - One of the great truths in life is that all art, as writer-director Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) is fond of saying, reflects the times in which is it created.A good example of this is 1970's Kelly's Heroes, a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~467238293124 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:19:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_467238293124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_467138023044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - If you came of age - or were the parent of a teenager - between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, you probably remember the romantic-comedy subgenre known as the "Horny Teens Movies."  These were usually low-budget projects that married bare-bones plots... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~467138023044 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:25:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_467138023044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466497932932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - With the success of Paramount Pictures' Star Trek movie series of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hollywood producers and screenwriters continued to mine the formerly-maligned medium of television for story ideas and even story-telling... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466497932932 Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:52:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466497932932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466269081220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.... It is a time of crisis in the Galactic Republic. With a dispute over the taxation of trade routes in the galaxy threatening to erupt into a major conflict as the greedy Trade Federation blockades... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466269081220 Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:52:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466269081220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465061711492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - In the fall of 2008, Lucasfilm Limited and the Time-Warner-owned Cartoon Network began airing Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a 22-episode-long computer animated series which tells the "untold stories" of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and some... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465061711492 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:43:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465061711492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464759000708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Although most of my training - incomplete as it may be - as a writer has been geared toward print (or at least online) journalism, one of my goals in life has always been to write either a novel or a screenplay.In my younger, more naive... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464759000708 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:59:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464759000708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464663056004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - With the spectacular success of Ken Burns' The Civil War's first broadcast run in the fall of 1990, the Public Broadcasting System aired many similarly structured documentaries which focused on many events and important figures in American... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464663056004 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:12:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464663056004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464373517956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - One of the sad consequences of how Warner Bros. allowed the Batman film franchise to be run into the ground - quality-wise - in the 1990s by directors Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher was my inclination to ignore both of writer-director Christopher Nolan's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464373517956 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464373517956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464065236612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - As someone who is both a Star Wars fan and an avid reader, I often have a hard time finding Expanded Universe novels that satisfies my need for a good Star Wars adventure that doesn't read like a quickly-developed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464065236612 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:21:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464065236612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463079837316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - If we look at every current successful Hollywood director's filmography, we are bound to find several failed projects or "could have been contender" films that, for some reason or another, failed both critically and popularly at the box... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463079837316 Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:21:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463079837316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461372034692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - This book will scare the hell out of you.When I was a student at Riviera Jr. High School in Southwest Miami-Dade County. I happened to notice that one of my classmates in Mr. Day's science class was browsing through a thick-looking... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461372034692 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:22:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461372034692?linkin_id=8003929