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United 93 is a stark and somber reminder of why we fight in Afghanistan

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:29:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - When Universal Pictures rolled out writer-director Paul Greengrass’ United 93 in 2006, I was not sure if I would ever see it. I certainly didn’t see it in theaters that year, and I did not rush to order it from Amazon when it was...

Piranha: Dante and Corman give viewers Jaws knockoff that's still fun to watch

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:52:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - When I was in my early teens, my next-door neighbors Russell and Germaine went on a trip to South Africa and brought me back a few souvenirs. Some of them were the expected Africa-themed knick-knacks, but the most memorable one was a copy of a...

Ripley (or something like her) is resurrected in weird fourth Alien film

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:41:13 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - One of the traits of The Alien Quadrilogy - the improvised franchise which started 30 years ago when 20th Century Fox released Ridley Scott's Alien - is that the movies get weirder as the "series" progresses.Had the studio left well...

Charlton Heston is stranded on a bizarre Planet of the Apes

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:10:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - In 1968....Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were shot.U.S. forces were fighting in Southeast Asia.The Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia.There were riots and protests all over the world.The Apollo 8...

The Prequel Trilogy gets its omnibus edition at last, and the Force is with it!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:14:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - It's hard to believe that over 10 years have passed since Del Rey and Lucas Books released the hardcover edition of Terry Brooks' novelization of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, perhaps the most anticipated - and perhaps least...

Rebecca adds Sugar and Spice to her sexy Housewives at Play

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:46:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - In the late 1940s, coinciding with the post-World War II economic and Baby Booms, various comic book writers and artists created a new genre aimed at returning war veterans and the women they dated or married - the romance comic.Initially...

Lawrence of Arabia: Big things have small beginnings, indeed.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:46:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - I don't know if anyone reading this remembers Connections, a British TV import hosted by the congenial writer and commentator James Burke that was broadcast here in the U.S. by the Public Broadcasting System in the early 1980s. This...

J.J. Abrams, Cruise do Mission: Impossible III and give viewers best film of series

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:02:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Even though Paramount Pictures' Mission: Impossible movies have been around since 1996 (when Brian De Palma's first adaptation of the old CBS TV series was released), I had made a conscious effort to ignore them.Though I was not a...

Tom Cruise and John Woo team up for watchable, if not great, Mission: Impossible II

Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:34:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Considering that Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible - a 1996 adaptation of Bruce Geller's Cold War-era TV series about an elite group of intelligence operatives known as the Impossible Mission Force - was a big hit for its star Tom Cruise and...

Mission: Impossible - It's not your father's Mission Impossible, but that's the neat part

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:35:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - In 1966, the same year in which NBC was airing the first season of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, its rival network CBS premiered producer Bruce Geller's Cold War-infused spy thriller, Mission: Impossible. Originally led by Daniel...

Like Water for Chocolate: Sex, food and magic make a fine mix in 1992 classic

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:38:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Although most of us Epinionators who have seen and reviewed Mexican actor-director Alfonso Arau's internationally acclaimed Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) have watched it in the comfort of our own homes on either VHS tapes or...

Danielle Steel's No Greater Love left me with a sinking feeling....

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:09:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - One of the basic truths about literature - no matter if it's the Great Tragedies of William Shakespeare or popular novelists such as Leon Uris and James A. Michener - is that historical figures and/or historical events are often the inspirations for...

From the Earth to the Moon chronicles our greatest adventure with respect and wonder

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:06:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Ever since U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin first walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and I - at age six - watched their ghost-blurry images on a black-and-white TV in our Bogota (Colombia) living room, I've been a self-admitted...

When We Left Earth deftly chronicles 50 years of America's manned space program

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:40:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because...

The Kodak EasyShare C713 Digital Camera as seen from a reluctant shutterbug's point of view

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:16:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - What Came Before: Adventures and Misadventures of a Reluctant Photojournalist:Even though I was more of a reporter/entertainment editor/op-ed writer when I was a mass communications student at Miami-Dade Community College (now called...

Look, Ma! No Wires! A loving look at the Microsoft 3000 Mouse for Notebooks

Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:19:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Even though most notebook computers produced nowadays come with a touchpad (also sometimes called "mousepad") that allows users to replicate traditional PC desktop and/or laptop mice, I suspected that it would be more practical to order a wireless...

Targus CVR217 Neoprene Slip Case: Style and security in a nice notebook slip case

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:34:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Although I've been - and I suspect I'll always be - a guy who prefers using a desktop computer rather than a notebook/laptop devotee, several factors - bad weather, the need to be online a bit more and the desire to not lose productivity at times -...

The Compaq Presario CQ60-410US as seen from a reluctant laptop owner's point of view

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:51:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - After 15 years of swearing that I'd never give in to the temptation of buying a PC Notebook, a combination of bad weather, the need for a backup PC, and a certain desire to be available online a bit more (but not chained to my desk!),...

Power of the Force's Purchase of the Droids is a nifty Star Wars collectible

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:47:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Although the scene where Owen Lars (the late Phil Brown) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) purchase R2-D2 and C-3PO from the jawas seems on the surface to be one of the least likely inspirations for a collector's item, it is a seemingly hum-drum yet...

24 - Season 7: Jack Bauer's back in reinvigorating seventh very bad day

Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:50:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - One of the downsides to living in South Florida is that because the latter half of a season of Fox's action-adventure/soap ope
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24 coincides with the start of our rainy season, weather can and does prevent its fans from watching...

Set in Star Wars galaxy, this Monopoly variant has the Force of fun with it!

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:39:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - A long time ago (nine years ago, really), but not in a galaxy far, far away, my best friend Rogers and I were in what might be called (for lack of a better word) a Star Wars collecting binge.Though I've always rejected being called a geek,...

For All Mankind is an engrossing video mosaic of the Apollo moon missions

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:44:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - It's hard to believe, even with all the technological advances that we currently enjoy (or endure) that can be traced to the mighty endeavor known as the Apollo Program, that 40 years ago today (as of this writing), millions of people all over the world...

Hewlett Packard C1124A Inkjet Paper: Another not-so-trivial review of a seemingly trivial product

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:15:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Although currently I find myself in the unenviable position of having to cope without a working deskjet printer, I think my experiences with printers and printer paper still qualifies me as a reviewer of Hewlett-Packard’s C1124A Inkjet Paper...

Though not as capable as a DVD-RW, Maxell's CD-RW is still not a trivial product

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:07:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - As someone who has been using personal computers since 1987, when I was given an Apple IIe desktop as a birthday present, I've seen "storage media" evolve from 5.25 "floppy disks", 3.5 "floppies" that resembled - uncannily - the data tapes used in the...

Neon Post-It Memo Cube: The Rainbow Connection for absent-minded writers

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:55:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author alexdg1 - Ah. The humble, unappreciated Post-It note. So small, so seemingly insignificant. And yet, at the same time, the Post-It note (in all its forms and colors), first introduced in 1977 (the same year Jimmy Carter became President and...