Epinions Recent Reviews for blackeye

Bubba Ho-Tep

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:15:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A film review by BlackEye BUBBA HO-TEP This wonderful surprise of a film brings back the ultimate Saturday matinee as experienced in the sixties. From the opening, showing dictionary definitions of “Bubba” and “Ho-Tep,...

Kill Bill Volume 1: Bill's Overkill One for the Grist Mill

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:54:33 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A film review by BlackEye San Quentin n. 1. Prison in California 2. The patron saint of retro video store clerks and self-appointed hipsters imprisoned in the past. Tricks are for kids. So is Kill Bill Vol. 1...

The Order of the Knights of Columbus

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:29:59 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A Film Review by BlackEye Attention all Goths! Attention all Goths! This film is for you! Gather some shrooms and ingest them prior viewing. They should kick in by the psychedelic scenes. If not, you may be in for a long movie, although the set...

Cabinet Fever

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 05:52:48 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A Film Review by BlackEye This black comedy is a teen metaphor for the current White House administration. Very little intelligence, with a lot of macho posturing. Lot’s of blood and very little sex, although there is one scene when the per...

Up From the Depths of the Abyss

Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - Note: I wrote this as a double feature for other publications. Since there is no facility on this si...

Kinky Friedman and Kapturing the Keystone Kops

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:25:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - In delivering the best, most provocative documentary of 2003, first-time director Andrew Jarecki tru...

Blinded By The Light or “I See Dead Chinese People”

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:55:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - “The Eye” is a psychological thriller out of Hong Kong. It has one of the most creative openings I h...

Republicans as Queer Folks

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:33:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - “The Trip” is not a re-release of the quintessential psychotropic Peter Fonda vehicle of the sixties...

Sea of Insanity

Tue, 3 Jun 2003 05:43:21 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - The Sea

Escaping to Iceland doesn’t seem to be the path to brighter horizons. I haven’t had this much fun since the 1998 Dogme style “Festen (The Celebration).” Baltasar Kormákur directs this over-the-top soap on a brand new...

Identity Crises

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:35:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - This amusing black comedy has as many identities as the lead character has personalities. Michael Cooney provides an intelligent, twisted script and James Mangold has a great time directing a stellar cast. This film pays homage to a multiplicity of other...

Dial M for Memory

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:22:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - The protagonist wastes no time in losing his identity to street thugs in this engaging Academy nomination for Best Foreign Language film from Finland. It is slow going at first, but we not only get a view from the outskirts of town through Finnish eyes,...

Irredeemable

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:47:24 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A film review by

BlackEye

With the American Congress childishly changing the names of all things Francais, from fries to toast, it’s probably not the best of times for the distributor to leave une crotte on this side of the...

Arachnophobia

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:12:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A film review by

BlackEye

The itsy bitsy spider came down the waterspout. He tried to remember what turned his life upside down and inside out. But instead of making the same mistake twice, the itsy bitsy spider went back up the...

Year of the Coma

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:58:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A film review by

BlackEye

Is there an indie film in current release without a coma at its center? Both Gerrys are comatose in Gus Van Zant’s latest, as are all the characters populating All the Real Girls. Of course,...

Danish Delight

Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:47:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A film review by

BlackEye

“Open Hearts,” Denmark’s official Oscar entry for best foreign language film, is produced in the authentic Dogme 95 format. This film is the real thing. As in all of these stylistic, realistic, Lars...

Gods and Governors

Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:36:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - A film review and analysis by

BlackEye

A Case for “David Gale”

Alan Parker puts his penchant for directing entertaining films, while also engaging in strong social and political commentary, to good use here. All...

Prufrock, Poetry, and Personal Tragedy

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 06:31:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - "Till Human Voices Wake Us” is a very personal film about tragic loss, repression of that memory and a journey to find release and rebirth. If you have the patience, this film takes a languid pace down memory lane with haunting results. It is nicely...

Gods and Monster Generals…

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:11:14 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - …Bellow pedantic prose. In a film longer than the Civil War itself, the writer/director was either unable or unwilling to duplicate his previous success, “Gettysburg.” He had no problem finding a good surgeon to amputate the limbs of the...

Gerry, Where’s My Car, Dude?

Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:31:39 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - This movie is almost review proof.

It’s “Dumb and Dumber” without the comedy. It’s “My Dinner With Andre” without the appetizing first course or the intelligent discourse. It’s “Lost Highway” without the...

Still Amelie After All These Years

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:26:09 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - It’s not a good time for the French to release a film in America, especially a Crème Fraiche like “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.”

However, since this black valentine was delivered like a rose to a cardiologist whose diagnosis was a...

All the Real Reel Girls or The Dukes of Hazzard go Indie!

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:14:40 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blackeye - This critically acclaimed film answers two profound questions: (1) How could an imbecile like George W. Bush occupy the White House and (2) what would happen if you gave money and a camera to a mentally challenged individual with an I.Q. in the 70’s?...