Epinions Recent Reviews for atruelove99

One of the worst movies of all time

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:54:25 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Yes, KST has a legion of fans, is beautiful, was adorable in "Random Hearts" (if you could overlook a US Senator with an English accent)and lets her age show in this movie.The plot is so downbeat, it defies description.KST is released from jail...

Dead young US soldier tear-jerker

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:39:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - A Marine officer (Kevin Bacon) - having retired from combat to a desk job - volunteers to accompany the body of a young KIA US soldier (of his own hometown) - Chance - back to the funeral and his family. In short, a feel-good...

Early Hanna Schygulla for $22

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:34:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Hanna Schygulla has become a cult item mostly in Europe, but even in US (Sandra Bernhard says she aspires to be her...), She is most magnetic in later years when her round face and monotonous voice (albeit in German) are compelling for some reason...

Rita Tushingham for $10

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 03:27:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Two country girls move to Dublin (and, eventually, to London). The main story concerns the girl played by Rita Tushingham (the other is Lynn Redgrave), who is befriended and helped by an older man (Peter Finch) .. who gives sanctuary .. and who then...

See the Bio, skip the cult

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:24:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Sybil Temtchine - who plays a patient and then the lover of the young Psychologist, Nathaniel, is the most photogenic of the cast. Helen Mirren, as one expects, gives a great performance as Ayn, but this is such an unlikable (and boring) character .....

young Helen Mirren - a babe

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:09:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - About the only Mirren early work previously available was Age of Consent (1969) playing an Australian girl against James Mason's artist, fully nude in the sea. This box set is a collection of BBC TV plays. Helen comes across charmingly in a Parkinson...

Solid chunk of Brit WWII upper class ambience

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:24:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - The Anna Neagle collection has recently come out at low cost. How can you lose? USAAF waist gunner Dean Jagger is billeted in the London house of Lady Patricia (Anna). He outshines Brit Army Maj Rex Harrison and becomes her boyfriend. Visits to the...

English cult item Sally Hawkins - early TV 3-parter

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:36:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - This 3-part serial on region 1 DVD will provide Sally Hawkins fans with one of her early major appearances. She is a Fingersmith (outdated English slang for thief) in a Victorian London slum; in a long-term scam she falls in love with her mark Maud, a...

Brit comedy, now on DVD for $10

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:04:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Don't bother with Amazon.com - and amazon.co.uk have never heard of it - this newish DVD (PAL Region 2, you will need your Global DVD player ($90); don't forget to use a y-connector to merge the two white hole soundtracks into your audio input).. E-Bay...

Puccini for Beginners: Usual lesbian/straight plot

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:56:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Writer Allegra (a rather unattractive Elizabeth Reaser) is dumped by her tall, adorable girlfriend (a 5-minute supporting part for Julianne Nicholson - OK I won't go on about JN). Not too likely that a babe like JN would opt for Allegra, but still...

Lame Brit 70's satire

Tue, 15 May 2007 10:02:29 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - The 'best' of a BBC comedy series - Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson and others. Rather lame, and some skits require a detailed knowledge of British TV (and specifically going back to the 70's and before...) Mildy amusing: 'the 2 Ronnies' with a...

Cult OOB theater comes to DVD

Sun, 13 May 2007 08:07:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Charles Busch's (writer, & original stage performer of the Chicklet character) autobiographical novel W----s of Lost Atlantis has recently become available (Amazon.com, about $1) He recounts how - tiring of his one-man cross-dressing act (mostly out...

Brit country house romp - Julie Andrews

Sat, 12 May 2007 12:49:23 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - You can get this DVD sent from amazon.co.uk for about $9 total (you need a $90 global dvd player from Sam's Club etc) I hadn't even realized this was Noel Coward (reset in post WWII) until reading the previous review. The full complement of...

Kiss Jessica Stein one more time

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:47:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - If you wanted to kiss Jessica Stein (the delightful and slightly foreign Jennifer Westfeldt)(and who of either sex wouldn't), this is another chunk (straight this time ?). She plays a minor role, but this is the best part of the DVD. (More 'coy' and...

How fireworks are made

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:28:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - We gather that US (major display) Fireworks are monopolized by a few Italian families. The head of one such (New Jersey) blows himself up, and a relative (Stanley Tucci) is imported from the old country, learns the trade, woos friend of the family...

Absorbing narrative

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:18:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - The scholarly narrator takes us through all six wives, with plenty of film of surviving buildings and some dramatization along the way. Not as detailed as the various other available DVD's (the BBC Henry VIII series for example, or one-queen movies like...

Cinderfella: Anna Maria Alberghetti- rare footage

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:02:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - She was adorable in Menotti's short opera the Medium (or possibly the Telephone), and you can see her in 10,000 Bedrooms (Dean Martin), and a few others (but she kept busy for many years). As has been noted, she lights up this DVD. Jerry does a...

Intelligent adaptation

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:53:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Alice is played by the adult Kate Beckinsale. This works just fine. Her character is knowing and perceptive , like Alice in the book, and like the upper-class 12-year-olds that Carroll told the story to.. the Book needed to be cut, otherwise it would...

Catherine Deneuve, but nothing else

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:11:37 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Totally unwatchable (Engish subtitles) Jewelry Business movie For Deneuve fans only. CD comes into possession of some stolen jewels, the only residue of her suicided Husband's business. Yes, we gather that there are three parties attempting to recover...

awfully boring

Fri, 5 Jan 2007 07:45:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - The title is from Peter Pan: "Dying must be an ..." Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant. I suggest reading the book (also very dragged out) also. Stella, 16, joins a ratty Theatrical Company in Liverpool (filmed in Dublin), 1947. The usual coming of age story,...

Movie star cameo, and film-clip, collection for $3

Fri, 5 Jan 2007 07:31:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - "M. Cinema" (Michel Piccoli) is 100 years old, with failing memory, and holds court in his French mansion. He hires a female Cinema student as a 'companion' to refresh his memory with Movie anecdotes, etc. (There is a subplot involving young wannabe...

Brit. Trannie Comedian Eddie Izzard for $5

Fri, 5 Jan 2007 07:02:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - Available in junk DVD bin at Supermarkets. This film it appears was never really released, & has been described as one of the biggest bombs of all time. Matt Leblanc, Eddie Izzard(& 2 others, Brit.) dress up to infiltrate a women-staffed Enigma...

Brit Comedienne-Singer Gracie Fields

Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:55:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - (aka Madame Pimpernel, UK) Gracie was immensely popular as a Singer-Comedienne-North-of-Eng
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pre-WWII, then blew it all by ducking the war in Hollywood (other Brits like Christopher Isherwood could get away with it). This straight US-made WW-I...

Brit Music Hall History

Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:06:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - E-Bay-supposedly all Region DVD. (Not listed in IMDB.com) History of English Music Hall from Vauxhall Gardens onward. Brit WWII stars that you may recognize: Rob Wilton, George Formby, Tommy Trinder,Max Miller, Gracie Fields, Arthur Askey, Tessie...

Brit WWII radio comedian

Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:55:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atruelove99 - (DVD - Region 2 possibly - from eBay etc. Good luck) Big-hearted Arthur is assisted by comedy vets Moore Marriot and Graham Moffat, and by Googie Withers (!) Arthur is jilted and sent to a remote lighthouse, accompanied by a young girl stowaway. A...