Epinions Recent Reviews for dancingpotato

Speaks For Itself: Nancy Meyers' aptly titled Something's Gotta Give

Tue, 18 May 2004 19:16:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - There doesn’t seem to be a place for the over-50 crowd in Hollywood anymore. Despite the fact that a great deal of directors, producers and movie stars have reached this age, they seem to remain in denial. Whereas the 70’s and 80’s had its share of...

Fanboy's Trick or Treat: Alkaline Trio's Halloween at the Metro

Mon, 10 May 2004 22:46:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - You have no idea how hard it was to find this one. As far as I can gather, Halloween at the Metro was released sometime ago; six months ago, minimum. It was delayed a couple of times, obviously, seeing as how it was shot on Halloween 2002. I found out...

Later Daze: Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:10:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - I don’t consider myself a true horror buff; I haven’t seen a Dario Argento movie, much less a Lucio Fulci; I don’t read Fangoria… hell, I’ve never even seen a Nightmare on Elm Street movie. I do, however, have a marked interest for the bizarre, the...

Face to Face to Face: Nunally Johnson's The Three Faces of Eve

Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:54:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - I don’t exactly understand the appeal of disease-of-the-week movies; the people behind them will tel...

Hark, Harry Angel Sings: Alan Parker's Angel Heart

Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:47:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - Whatever happened to Mickey Rourke? The guy was on top of the world in the 80’s; he was a sex-symbol...

122 minutes for roughing: George Roy Hill's Slap Shot

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 02:59:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - I might be perpetuating a stereotype here, but Canadians love hockey. Especially French Canadians. I...

One for the Road: George Miller's The Road Warrior

Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:08:10 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - I vaguely remember a point in time where people actually wanted to know if they should see the origi...

Chandler and film gris: Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye

Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:34:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - Philip Marlowe is the quintessential noir character; the hardboiled private eye created by Raymond C...

Le Marais: It Came From The Swamp: Kim Nguyen's Le Marais

Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:20:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - In the last few years, mainstream Québec cinema has spawned two kinds of films: (1) big, broad comed...

The Ugly Side of Homicide: Joe Carnahan's brutal Narc

Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:54:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - Michael Connelly is one of my favourite authors; he writes awesome police thrillers that keep you gu...

Les Dangereux: Pulp Poutine: Louis Saia's Les Dangereux

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:46:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - Quebec is the only province in Canada, as far as I know, that has an entire film industry contained...

The Schmidt Hits The Fan: Alexander Payne's problematic About Schmidt

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:25:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - When did Jack Nicholson get so old? I watched Easy Rider and About Schmidt within a few weeks of eac...

Punch-Drunk Love: Punched Out

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:03:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - I’ve always been an Adam Sandler fan; I’m not going to say that I always thought he had it in him to...

Checkmate: Boaz Yakin's Fresh

Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:12:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - It’s probably impossible to make a list of all the “ghetto” movies that have been released since Boy...

Brand New Grows Up, Forgets Distortion on Guitars: Deja Entendu

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:59:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - In 2001, Brand New offered their debut album, Your Favorite Weapon. It was a fairly straightforward...

Shallow, pointless, unfunny... we'll be rich!

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:41:56 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - I’m starting to think that studios have stopped trying altogether. I’ll admit to liking many dumb co...

Everybody Knows

Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:19:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - Exotica is one of those movies so rich that you can’t possibly decipher it in one viewing. Oh sure,...

Sing Loud, Sing Proud: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:13:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - It’s become fashionable in recent years to say that you don’t like musicals. The reason for this is...

Death Comes Easy: Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning

Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:18:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - Generally, a band getting media attention is good. Alkaline Trio toiled for many years on small reco...

Jay and Silent Bob would be welcome in THIS Dogme.

Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:58:17 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - Directors are always looking for a way to revolutionize filmmaking by using radically different meth...

Heavy Artillery: Brand New's Your Favorite Weapon

Fri, 4 Jul 2003 01:00:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - I used to tell people that my favourite band was Alkaline Trio. I didn’t think; it just came out by...

To Forget Palermo (and this horrible film)

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:29:01 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - As a movie fan, I am relatively inexperienced. There are tons and tons of good films that I have not seen and that I should be seeing. I have access to many, many obscure French films and poorly made Canadian TV movies which I would love to see and...

Or: how violence is corrupting the youth of America... not quite.

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:19:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - I think it’s disturbing that “Generation X” has come to embrace Fight Club as their favorite film. If you go by most movie buffs ages 18-30, you will find a startling majority of them consider Fight Club to be the film they most identify with. They...

Five Easy Pieces: The Lost Review

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:09:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - Note: This review has been written for over a year. Since I left, it never got posted. Now, I'm posting it because I'm greedy.

No seriously, I think it deserves to be posted. I'll shut up now.

Through the years, Jack Nicholson has...

"I'm a spoke on a wheel. I am, and so are you."

Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:07:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dancingpotato - It was a match made in heaven. Like black and white in a cookie (yes, that’s Seinfeld reference, if anyone is keeping count). Abbot and Costello. Laurel and Hardy. James Bond and his flavor-of-the-week girl. I could sit here naming names all day, but...