Epinions Recent Reviews for catseyeglasses

The Sum of All Fears

Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:55:43 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Ben Affleck has big trouble to chase and big shoes to fill in this prequel to Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games that imagines Jack Ryan's salad days as a a young CIA researcher lucky enough to have done a term paper on the new Russian president or...

Little panic in the Panic Room

Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:14:24 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - It's never a good sign when a so-called suspense movie fails to make you spill popcorn at least once. Panic Room, a mostly competent thriller from the director of the genuinely creepy Seven, opens with a mother-and-daughter team (Jodie Foster and...

Killing a perfectly good teen book

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:04:05 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - As the latest entry in the "worst teen movies of the late 1990's" sweepstakes, please welcome Killing Mr. Griffin, a so-called suspense film loosely based on horror novelist Lois Duncan's classic tale of adolescence gone awry. Originally...

Prodigal Talents

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 21:33:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Until the Epinions site catches up with the new releases . . .

Old Barbara Kingsolver fans will rejoice in the release of her latest novel, Prodigal Summer; back are the learning, loving, longing, left-leaning heroines in the style...

But I'm a Campleader!

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:42:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Liberal-minded sort looking for an evening of bubble-gum rental fun? But I'm a Cheerleader, the tale of an all-American girl shipped off to heterosexual rehab by her concerned parents and clueless friends, is a perfect way to while away ninety...

Nurse Betty

Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:53:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Anyone who has cringed their way through Neil LaBute's masterpieces of satirical mysogyny (most notable, In the Company of Men), is in for a frothy treat with his latest work, a learning-to-love-yourself fable about a small-town Kansas girl (Rene...

Boca Chica

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:59:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Whenever I'm going out in parts downtown and to the east, I inevitably eat at Boca Chica. And why not? It's rare that you'll find anywhere in the newly-tourist-friendly New York that will offer you food spicy enough to make you sweat.

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A waffle maker that actually works

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:28:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - My childhood memories are of waffles pulled in half by the wafflemaker, disconcertingly blond and cold three seconds after being pulled off the iron. Imagine my shock in discovering that Cuisinart has made a waffle iron that actually works--one, in...

Put it to bed

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:12:34 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - A. Manette Ansay's conceit is that she writes about the particularly stultifying world that is the Midwest; unfortunately, I've always found that her Midwest sounds just like the California I grew up in or the New York where I currently reside...

If you have to go to law school . . .

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:59:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - God knows, you should find something else to do with your life. As my college advisor used to say, "If you want to be on L.A. Law, go to acting school." If you simply must grow up to be a lawyer, however, NYU Law is the least noxious...

Flashdance on a bar

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:53:36 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Heading to Coyote Ugly for scene after scene of gorgeous women stomping on a bar top and spraying male admirers with selzter? Don't believe the trailer. Coyote Ugly is a small-town-girl-makes-good fable about a cheesy New Jersey songwriter trying...

Demented for the short run

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:35:04 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Fans of John Waters' audacious Pink Flamingos and quirkily heartwarming films such as Hairspray and Pecker will doubtless enjoy this latest installment in Waters' ouvre--Waters has a distinctive aesthetic and the sort of screw-you-Hollywood attitude...

Bring it On

Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:00:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - They're the girls you love to hate--the cheerleaders, impossibly perky, oddly dressed, and inexplicably popular. As if you didn't get enough of them in high school, they're back, they're on screen, and they're ready to teach you Valuable Life...

Aimee & Jaguar: Stylish, innovative Holocaust filmmaking

Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:37:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Stylishly filmed, compellingly acted, and nontraditionally conceived, this movie version of Austrian journalist Erica Fischer's 1996 nonfiction work, Aimee and Jaguar, is well worth suffering through art-house movie theater atmosphere and German...

Sleater-Kinney at its best

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:31:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - If I had to be stranded on a desert island with only one album, it would be this driving masterpiece, which swings moodily back and forth between exhiliaration and anguish, and compulsively back and forth between lead singer Corin Tucker and...

All Hands on This Good Album

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:15:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Sleater-Kinney is the girl band you wish you were in, with the guitarist whose moves you wish you could copy and the lead vocals you wish you could scream. Politically savvy, technically gifted, and hopelessly stylish in a thrift-store way, the...

Faint "Praise"

Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:11:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - I'm not sure what to do with a movie which is fabulously well done and makes the viewer feel like she needs to take a shower afterwards. "Praise," an Australian import, is the story of a lazy, laconic convenience-store employee who takes...

Cutting new "teeth": Zadie Smith's bold voice

Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:56:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Oh, how I wanted to hate this novel. Cross-continental literary sensation Zadie Smith, breaking into the stiff white male Booker Prize bastion in her native UK, is an attractive, bespectacled, twentysomething woman whose debut novel, White Teeth,...

Annie: Finally, a movie version to watch

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:57:37 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - If your children are going to force you to view the same video again and againandagain, might as well be this charming, 90's version of the classic Annie musical (happily free of the 80's version's stickiness and plodding pacing). A host of...

The Hurricane: A Slide Show

Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:04:14 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - I've quickly taken to calling Norman Jewison's latest offering, a biopic of middleweight great Rueben "Hurricane" Carter, "Hurricane: A Story as Told by Sock Puppets," a title about as appropriate as a friend's description,...

The Reasonably Talented Mr. Ripley

Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:39:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Patricia Highsmith's noir novel gets A-list treatment in this Oscar-hungry version of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Anthony Minghella picks up the pace from his sludgy English Patient, adapting Highsmith's claustrophobic thriller into a neat little film...

Dead Poet's Society with valium

Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:44:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - The girls of Claymoore don't get to stand on tables and sound their barbaric yawps; as Susanna Kaysen discovered when goaded into committing herself, the young women at this elite mental hospital spent most of their time palming their medications,...

Magnolia: stay home and rent Boogie Nights

Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:11:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Boogie Nights promised that Paul Thomas Anderson would be a brilliant filmmaker; sure, Boogie fell apart after the Sister Chrisitan scene, but Anderson's next movie would demonstrate that Orson Wells II had arrived. Instead, Magnolia, two parts...

Providence Renaissance

Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:19:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - Ten years ago, when I packed my bags for my college in Providence, Providence was commonly known as "the armpit of New England." Happily, that crown has been returned to the New Haven from whence it came, and Providence has undergone real...

Dead on Arrival . . . but amusing anyway

Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:01:59 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catseyeglasses - If you've never been to a teen beauty pageant, this movie will go right under your head; Drop Dead Gorgeous adolescents (played mostly by grown women) spar for a crown in a morality play about bad rich girls and plucky trailer trash. If you've ever...