© 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-blade_runner83 Recent reviews written by member blade_runner83 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_208598240900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - The umpteenth cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's witty gargantuan novel, Vanity Fair is given a colourful and palpable rendition from veteran Indian filmmaker Mira Nair. The story details social climber, (or is it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~208598240900 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:15:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_208598240900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_208582905476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - In this contemporary re-reading of Robinson Crusoe, Tom Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a Federal Express trouble shooter who devotes more of his free time to solving problems at work, rather than his own dilemmas at home with his neglected... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~208582905476 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:09:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_208582905476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_197587799684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - The opening shot of Lee Tamahori&#146s Once Were Warriors is a thing of rare beauty and terrible truth. Gazing upon a tranquil landscape of rolling green hills and snow-capped mountains, Tamahori provides his audience with an initial glimpse of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~197587799684 Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:20:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_197587799684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_197532094084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - Even prior to the first day of shooting, there were ominous storm clouds looming over Terry Gilliam&#146s production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. By the third day, the real storm clouds had wiped out his entire set, destroyed valuable... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~197532094084 Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:40:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_197532094084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_197415505540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - Perhaps the most tragic element of Brian DePalma&#146s 1983 bombastic gangster epic Scarface is in the film&#146s last moments, when the director dedicates his picture to the men who conceived the original 1932 Scarface: director Howard... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~197415505540 Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:43:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_197415505540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_197236264580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - There is a brief, yet wonderful moment in Martin Scorsese's documentary about the early career of Bob Dylan in which we are shown a simple and discreet photograph of the icon taken just after the singer had entered his "electric" phase. In the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~197236264580 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:40:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_197236264580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_197120986756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - In 1955, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was almost at the end of his rope. Literally. With a series of bleak critical and commercial flops in his native Sweden, Bergman was given one last chance to repair his tattered career by his bosses at... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~197120986756 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:19:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_197120986756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_197066395268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - The debut film of Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci is something of a curiosity piece. Based upon a story by his friend, notorious Marxist filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Commare Secca tells the story of an investigation following the murder of a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~197066395268 Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:22:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_197066395268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_196959506052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - Orson Welles' last American picture as a director begins with a bang. Literally. Utilizing one of the greatest opening sequences ever filmed, Welles begins his expressionistic exploration with a single edited tracking shot that snakes its way through the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~196959506052 Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:52:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_196959506052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_196825353860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - The 1962 Hammer production of The Phantom of the Opera is generally placed in an awkward critical position. Filmed on a miniscule British B movie budget, Terence Fisher's sober abridged adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel has had to compete with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~196825353860 Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:02:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_196825353860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_196809363076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - No other studio profited more from the rapid success of the gangster film like Warner Brothers. In the thirties, the studio was heralded for its gritty social dramas about injustice, crime and moral decay. Little Caesar was perhaps the starting... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~196809363076 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:49:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_196809363076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_196655091332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - In a summer choked for revenues and success, it is pathetically ironic that its most inebriated product would become one of its greatest successes. For all the expensive CGI and bombastic budgets for films such as Mr and Mrs Smith, Fantastic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~196655091332 Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:21:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_196655091332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_192515837572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - With all the fuss about J-horror films over the past five years, it is interesting for those who have been following the genre&#146s meteoric rise from isolated cult phenomena to Americanized big-budget horror flicks to revisit the current remake... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~192515837572 Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:19:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_192515837572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_192469372548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - While Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker continue to await the commencement of the third (and hopefully final) Rush Hour movie, the series&#146 director Brett Ratner has at least kept himself busy during the interim period. Not only has Ratner directed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~192469372548 Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:36:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_192469372548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_192200150660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - Another day in Hollywood; another Japanese horror remake. After tackling Ringu (The Ring) and Ju-On (The Grudge), Hollywood&#146s latest entry into the Americanization of Japanese supernatural horror is Dark Water: a similar... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~192200150660 Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:15:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_192200150660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_192136777348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - Every summer brings its bombast and FX overkill, along with a few unnecessary and languid remakes. But of the latter, it is very rare that modern Hollywood actually betters a previous attempt at a project. However, this summer there have been two... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~192136777348 Fri, 5 Aug 2005 00:19:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_192136777348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_192032706180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - It is quite evident on Epinions that any component of a Michael Bay fan club is non-existent. I for one have despised much of the directors previous work. I severely have disliked nearly everything he has created and I am sure I will be abhorred by... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~192032706180 Thu, 4 Aug 2005 01:43:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_192032706180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_191913299588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - There are bad films. And then there are films that are created in such bad taste and with such little regard for anything in terms of quality, that actually become a fun, guilty pleasure. Such a picture is Seed of Chucky: a debased picture that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~191913299588 Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:44:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_191913299588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_191789239940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - For any artist, director or writer the most painful part of the creative process is when abruptly out of nowhere, those ingenious artistic stimulants are taken away. In the case of Eighties Madrid-based film maker Enrique Goded (Fele Martinez) the once... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~191789239940 Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:13:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_191789239940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_187976617604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - The triumvirate of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Doug Liman would appear to be a dream line-up. Toss in popular comedic sidekick Vince Vaughan and it appears to get even better. Add in a sexy tale of married assassins and lies with an intriguing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~187976617604 Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:29:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_187976617604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_187972030084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - McCreedy to Train Conductor: "Oh I'll only be here for twenty-four hours" Train Conductor to McCreedy: "In a place like this, that could be a lifetime" As the red Streamliner snakes and hurdles through the desolate Arizona desert in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~187972030084 Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:33:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_187972030084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185699569284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - Is Morgan Spurlock a genius or a mad scientist guinea pig? One thing is for sure that whether you love or hate Spurlock's salivating, yet frightening 2004 documentary Super Size Me; you cannot deny the importance of this film. Following its... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185699569284 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:18:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185699569284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185674075780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - Boris Sagal's The Mosquito Squadron was the last in a series of economical World War II adventure thrillers produced by United Artists and the Mirisch Company, which attempted to capture the spirit of more successful Sixties war films such as... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185674075780 Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:52:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185674075780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185523015300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - Throughout Ron Howard's filmography there is a common thematic element. Ok. Correction. There are two running elements in his canon. The first is the presence of similarly balding, less-famous brother Clint. And the second, and most troubling is the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185523015300 Wed, 8 Jun 2005 01:20:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185523015300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185284267652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blade_runner83 - What's the matter with Jonathan Demme? After creating two of the most commercially popular films of the Nineties (Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia), Demme's post- Lambs career has seen him direct a so-so Toni Morrison adaptation (... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185284267652 Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:46:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185284267652?linkin_id=8003929