© 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-denisenoe Recent reviews written by member denisenoe en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_473256922756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - Made for the direct to home market and filmed on videotape, The Ghosts of Angela Webb claims to be based on a true story. I should probably say right off that I see no truth in either ghosts or psychics so I have to take The Ghosts of Angela Webb as a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473256922756 Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:59:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473256922756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461650169476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe -   Pigs at the Trough serves up a sizzling pile of business bacon   Arianna Huffington's Pigs at the Trough is subtitled How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America. The book does a superb job of showing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461650169476 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:58:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461650169476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461382520452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe -   Any Gun Can Play: A serviceably entertaining Western   The scene is that of classic town in the Old West. We see three coffins being hauled and a man, George Hilton playing the Stranger, riding a horse in front of them. Three men... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461382520452 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:40:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461382520452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460474846852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - Slightly Scarlet may be one of the most visually beautiful motion pictures ever made. The cinematography is beautifully clear and pure and the settings it records are made up of gloriously vibrant colors. The beauty of Slightly Scarlet is tripled by the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460474846852 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:41:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460474846852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460469341828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - Caligula was widely panned when it came out and is regarded by many critics as an unalloyed disaster. However, this reviewer sees it as a very interesting, even fascinating film, albeit one that is deeply flawed. The motion picture attempts to tell the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460469341828 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:39:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460469341828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432280931972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - This volume of short stories by the extraordinarily gifted Joyce Carol Oates is subtitled “Tales of Mystery and Suspense.” The subtitle is wrong. None of the ten stories in the collection is a tale of mystery and/or suspense. With a single exception, “... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432280931972 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:35:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432280931972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432271298180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - In John Allen Paulo&#146s debut book, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, this mathematician brought a sparkling wit and astute powers of observations to the widespread problems of math deficiencies and math avoidance. He followed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432271298180 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:57:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432271298180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_399212449412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - I rented this DVD because it has a most alluring cover. In the foreground is a bosomy, small-waisted lady in a black and cream corset with long white cloves and black stockings. She is shown up to her wide, richly lipsticked-mouth, her neck set off by... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~399212449412 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:01:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_399212449412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_399185776260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - There is a good movie inside La Virgen de la Lujuria (The Virgin of Lust). However, that good movie is about one hour long and La Virgen de la Lujuria lasts two and a half hours. Directed by esteemed Mexican director Arturo Ripstein, the film is set... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~399185776260 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:35:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_399185776260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_376725540484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - Perhaps no one is better equipped to write a guide for women called &#147On Becoming Fearless&#148 than Arianna Huffington (formerly Arianna Stassinopoulos). She is the daughter of a fearless mother, Elli Stassinopoulos. In the 1940s in Greece, her... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~376725540484 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:47:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_376725540484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_373871971972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - A made-for-TV movie, &#147Trilogy of Terror&#148 has attained a cult status unusual for a film first shown on the small screen, mostly because of the last of its three stories. It is a film that richly deserves to be seen &#150 and appreciated. Each... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~373871971972 Sat, 9 Jun 2007 17:30:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_373871971972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_352152161924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - This best-selling book has already got a good deal of publicity. Unlike most Hollywood exposés, You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again names names (for the most part) instead of hiding behind pseudonyms. Others have commented on the book's strange... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~352152161924 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:52:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_352152161924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_314124242564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - Jim Thompson is probably best known for his hard-boiled crime stories. “Now and On Earth,” a semi-autobiographical novel, is not a crime story. It is a gritty and realistic slice-of-life novel in which he unflinchingly conveys the bleak lives of a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~314124242564 Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:08:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_314124242564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_313214668420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - “The Picture of Dorian Gray” keeps close to the brilliant novel that inspired it except for a few innovations that usually work to the film’s benefit. It departs from the book in giving an otherworldly explanation for the granting of Dorian’s wish that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~313214668420 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:36:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_313214668420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_308739870340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is a classic because, although penned in the 19th Century, it is such an extraordinary work that it has the emotional force of mythology. When the reader first meets Dorian, the handsome, fresh-faced young man has just has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~308739870340 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:48:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_308739870340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_305660268164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - John Allen Paulos followed his best-selling &#147Innumeracy&#148 up with &#147Beyond Numeracy.&#148 Subtitled &#147Ruminations of a Numbers Man,&#148 it is a fascinating collection of essays for a popular audience. The book is intended to be accessible... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~305660268164 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:55:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_305660268164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_305640607364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - As is typical in movies, the high school kids in &#147Satan&#146s Cheerleaders&#148 all look like they should have graduated years ago. Both girls and boys appear to be in their twenties. The movie starts on a beach with the four cheerleaders of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~305640607364 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:08:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_305640607364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_304891596420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - “Twilight People” is a take-off on the “Island of Dr. Moreau” concept. A mad scientist, Dr. Gordon (Charles Macaulay) is on his own desert island where he is doing experiments to create humans with a variety of animal characteristics. He orders the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~304891596420 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:37:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_304891596420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_304872001156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - Set in America in the 1950s, Joyce Carol Oates’ “Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart” focuses on two troubled teenagers who come together through the oddest and most horrible of accidents. One of them is Jinx Fairchild, an African American... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~304872001156 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:36:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_304872001156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_302531448452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - A three-part series of the BBC that is on DVD, &#147Tipping the Velvet&#148 is the dramatic story of multiple sexual undergrounds flourishing in the shadow of Victorian repression. The protagonist of &#147Tipping the Velvet&#148 is Nan Astley (Rachael... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~302531448452 Sat, 6 Jan 2007 19:02:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_302531448452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_302447562372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - Joyce Carol Oates is one of America’s most famous and successful writers. She has written enthralling stories and novels in a variety of genres. “Come Meet Muffin!” is her first venture into children’s literature. Unfortunately, she either has no... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~302447562372 Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:19:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_302447562372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_299641769604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - In the epigram to &#147them,&#148 Joyce Carol Oates quotes John Webster from &#147The White Devil,&#148 as saying, &#147. . . because we are poor/Shall we be vicious?&#148 The question echoes through this complicated, impassioned, and masterful novel... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~299641769604 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:27:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_299641769604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_299603627652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - “Vampire Circus” opens upon a scene of bucolic innocence. Somewhere in a forest, probably in the 19th century or so, a well-dressed man is sitting on a log and sketching. A young woman and a girl-child, both attired in ankle length and pretty shift-style... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~299603627652 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:04:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_299603627652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_299126722180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - Joyce Carol Oates’ “Expensive People” is a flamboyantly and deliberately perverse comic novel born (!) of a an extraordinary premise. According to Greg Johnson in “Understanding Joyce Carol Oates,” the author wondered if it would be possible to write... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~299126722180 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:07:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_299126722180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_298663317124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author denisenoe - The title, &#147Twins of Evil,&#148 was undoubtedly chosen because it has a certain poetic resonance. The story told by the film is really one of a good twin and a bad twin. Somewhere in Europe during what is probably the late medieval or early modern... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~298663317124 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:41:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_298663317124?linkin_id=8003929