© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-catu11us Recent reviews written by member catu11us en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_425937440388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - It is Alfred Molina’s great misfortune that, in portraying Hercule Poirot, he has been preceded by Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, and David Suchet. Had this not been true, we might have been tempted to give his performance a higher rating than it is now... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425937440388 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:10:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425937440388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425827274372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Sketch comedy has a long history &#150 beginning in this country with vaudeville and burlesque, and in England with the music hall (&#147vaudeville isn&#146t dead; it just moved to England&#148). In the States, radio and television continued the earlier... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425827274372 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:06:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425827274372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425399127684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - It would have been nice had Tim Burton produced a “Sweeney Todd” that did a certain amount of justice to Steven Sondheim’s masterwork. Unfortunately, what Sondheim wrote and Burton put out bear only the most casual resemblance to each other … namely,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425399127684 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:49:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425399127684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423135252100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - In fine, the Bose Wave music system is a little wonder. Reading reviews here and there, it’s clear that people who don’t like this system expect things it wasn’t meant to do. Some complain that it doesn’t do what a multi-thousand dollar multi-speaker... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423135252100 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:52:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423135252100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423065325188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Well, apparently epinions is as yet unaware that this flma masterpiece is now available on DVD. Sigh.... It’s our amazing good fortune to have this document of one of George Bernard Shaw’s greatest plays, filmed during his lifetime so that he could... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423065325188 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:06:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423065325188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_422942576260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - The pity of this series is that it was short-lived. Still, 27 episodes isn’t a bad run. The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. is a western series with a lot of humor, bizarre characters, and several bits of science fiction. If this mix sounds... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~422942576260 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:07:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_422942576260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_422921670276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - “101 Dalmatians” is a classic Disney film and one of their best. Complaints about the animation style arise from failure to appreciate that it IS a style. It’s wonderful for its clarity and lack of clutter and arises from a cartooning style popular... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~422921670276 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:18:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_422921670276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_422052007556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - I don’t say that old movies are always better than new ones – but old movies are usually better than new. This is especially when they’re the same movie, and generically so when the old movie has no clone. The old “Four Feathers” is better than the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~422052007556 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:50:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_422052007556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421996433028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - As the Soviet Union became less repressive of the arts (Stalin knew what he liked, and it wasn&#146t Shostakovich), modernism crossed east of the Iron Curtain. Unfortunately. Naturally, many Russian composers opted for modernism in its most ghastly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421996433028 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:24:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421996433028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421916348036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Puccini’s reputation as a verismo composer is based primarily on La Boheme – a wonderful opera, but neither typical nor his best. His last opera was Turandot, and there’s nothing of verismo about it – a grand, grand opera, a fairytale opera, an opera of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421916348036 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:12:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421916348036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421651779204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - “Porgy & Bess” is George Gershwin’s masterpiece and one of the 10 greatest operas ever written (see my list on Amazon). For a long time (and even now … Leonard Maltin’s review, e.g.) condescendingly called a “folk opera” (translation: “the Met won’t do... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421651779204 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:19:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421651779204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421619207812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Well, I hate to admit to being wrong, but there actually is a worse Sullivan & Gilbert adaptation than &#147Gentlemen of Titipu&#148. This one seems to pin its hopes on the presence of some delectable eye candy &#150 namely, Chris Atkins, fresh from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421619207812 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:20:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421619207812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421481516676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - It&#146s well known that Brits generally do murder better than Yanks (or anyone else, for that matter). This trend started with Conan Doyle and continues right down to the present moment. Part of the reason for this is that Brit mysteries are genteel... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421481516676 Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:10:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421481516676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407611608708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - I should have known better. I knew "The Gentlemen of Titipu" was animated. But I also knew that the inimitable Anna Russell voiced Katisha. "It can't be all that awful," I told myself. WRONG. This DVD is 45 minutes of almost pure drek. First of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407611608708 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:26:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407611608708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_386300415620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Our local PBS station at one time offered a marvelous selection of Britcoms on Saturday night. Many of these gloriously funny comedies lit up the small screen like brilliant fireflies that lived only 3 or 4 of the short British seasons and (alas)... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~386300415620 Thu, 5 Jul 2007 01:16:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_386300415620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_383863983748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - The problem with modern totalitarian regimes – the most disgusting form of government – is that they produce no art: no music, no literature, no poetry, no architecture, no visual arts. The art that does come out of such states comes from those who... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~383863983748 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:18:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_383863983748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_352534433412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - It’s hardly likely to elicit any argument if I note that “Commander in Chief was deliberately planted in ground already prepared by “West Wing”. Unfortunately it was only a good show, not a great one. It was certainly better than to numerous dreary... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~352534433412 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:14:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_352534433412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_346967281284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Loony Tunes have ventured (at least) twice into the future. The first time was with the brilliantly funny “Duck Dodgers”. The latter time was with this … um … effort. “Loonatics Unleashed” isn’t without merit, and might be considered a good product... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~346967281284 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:50:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_346967281284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_330265038468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Let me say at the outset that the perceptive MrsNormanMaine has pretty much nailed this production, and I refer you to her review. Nonetheless, I have a few words, a few extra nails, to throw out. &#147Jekyll and Hyde&#148 occupies the musical and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~330265038468 Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:35:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_330265038468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_291134344836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - This is the 2nd of 2 very long TV movies/miniseries featuring two wonderful actors: Christopher Lee as Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Watson. (The following year a 3rd, “Sherlock Holmes in New York”, promoted Macnee to Holmes.) Like the first, it has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~291134344836 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:23:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_291134344836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_290679787140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - In 1991 and 1992, 2 long Sherlock Holmes pastiches appeared as TV miniseries. With Christopher Lee as Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Watson, we should have very high expectations of these presentations. For the most part, these were fulfilled to a large... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~290679787140 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:33:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_290679787140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_281317838468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - The fact that a film is on DVD doesn’t guarantee that its quality is very good. The fact that a film’s quality is threadbare doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy it. In addition to Overstock, one may find this pairing of Sherlock Holmes films on Amazon and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~281317838468 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:43:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_281317838468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_281224580740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - The recording at hand is a film of a production of Sullivan and Gilbert’s “HMS Pinafore” in Melbourne – in Australia, a land which usually does very well by Arthur Sullivan’s comic operas (and the accompanying libretti by W. S. Gilbert). The cover... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~281224580740 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:35:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_281224580740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_279534931588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Just what we need &#133 another rave review for A&E&#146s &#147Nero Wolfe&#148. Well, perhaps we will find a few things to say that haven&#146t been said before. Alas, this fine series lasted only 2 seasons &#150 actually, 1 more than I expected... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~279534931588 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:12:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_279534931588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_276298632836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Basil Rathbone reigned for 50 years as the very embodiment of Sherlock Holmes. The script writers were very fond of having him say “Elementary, my dear Watson”, a phrase he never uttered in Doyle’s original works. In any event, Rathbone has been... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~276298632836 Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:26:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_276298632836?linkin_id=8003929