© 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-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_483719089796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - The “Art of War” franchise has produced 2 good, fun films.  Wesley Snipes has been largely responsible for how good they are, but there are also smart script-writers and effective directors involved. Somehow, the 3rd film has run... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483719089796 Fri, 4 Sep 2009 03:33:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483719089796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483704278660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - This film is a Disney product.  It’s cutesy, kitschy, full of small … yech … children, and partly animated.  The only problem is that it’s cutesy to the max, kitschier than “Leave It to Beaver”, and the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483704278660 Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:12:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483704278660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483466972804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - [This review represents a revised text of the original.]With regard to this 4-dvd set, this reviewer must separate content from packaging.  As to the former, the set contains an pertinent selection of  6 TV presentations, most of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483466972804 Wed, 2 Sep 2009 02:02:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483466972804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483447836292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - The year is 1954.  Oldsmobile has decided to sponsor a Yule-season special.  The subject:  Victor Herbert’s saccharine musical, “Babes in Toyland”.  The production starred some very well-known names of the time... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483447836292 Tue, 1 Sep 2009 21:18:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483447836292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482112147076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - “Marie Antoinette” is the name of a film made in 1938 by the great W.S. Van Dyke (Director), the wonderful Norma Shearer (Marie Antoinette), the brilliant Robert Morley (Louis XVI), the talented Tyrone Power, the inimitable John Barrymore,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482112147076 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:43:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482112147076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_456211598980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Showtime’s obviously expensive production of “The Tudors” has got its first season into circulation as a set of DVDs.  I have seen some advertising on this, and my first reaction was that any series portraying Henry VIII as a lean... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~456211598980 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:05:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_456211598980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_452330163844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - I have always been a collector – stamps, books, chess sets, music, and so on, 60-years of it.  Current craze is of course DVDs.  Collectors generally compulsively hang on to something once they’ve acquired it – even if it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~452330163844 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:00:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_452330163844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_451786149508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author catu11us - Let us surmise that in the heady early days of the Third (or Temporary) Reich, Herr Doktor Gobbles commissioned … um ooops … Doktor Goebbels commissioned a film the purpose of which would be to discredit Christianity.  Let us further... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~451786149508 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:39:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_451786149508?linkin_id=8003929 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