Epinions Recent Reviews for derek_h

Perfect Murder, but the script writer should've been shot.

Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:50:50 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - “Rich people aren’t like you and me,” says one of the minor characters to his detective partner towards the middle of this movie. And how right he is – “you and me” don’t have our lives turning on the weakest of plot twists.

“Perfect...

Shoot Them UP!

Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:30:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - Now here’s a damn fine film. In Quentin Tarrantino’s directorial debut, he establishes himself as an unparalleled ripper-off of other, better films, a style that was to make him famous with “Pulp Fiction.” However, in this film, he doesn’t even try to...

Rip-off artistry at its finest...

Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:15:58 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - It doesn’t surprise me that unthinking, bible-thumping film naifs – those who prefer The English Patient to Sling Blade, Ally McBeal to White Picket Fences, Mindy to Mork, or the red part of a bomb pop to the blue – would bash Pulp Fiction. That’s a...

The most luscious of luscious.

Thu, 27 Jan 2000 01:45:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - Luscious Jackson is probably best known for their, “Fever In, Fever Out,” which, while decent enough, never comes close to their debut EP, “In Search of Manny.” “In Search of Manny” was the very first release on the Beastie Boy’s Grand Royale label, in...

Carrey's finest...

Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:08:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - I have to admit, I’m not usually one to jump on a bandwagon, but in the case of Jim Carrey, it’s just so damn hard not to. This movie in particular, directed by Ben Stiller (who everyone knows as the smegma-stained shlomo from “Something About Mary”),...

A Movie That Wears Its (Commendable) Heart On It's Sleeve.

Mon, 24 Jan 2000 02:39:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - This is one of those movies that I’d see in the video store every time I went in, look at the cover, deliberate for a few minutes, then decide against. On the cover, it’s not a bad cast – Matt Dillon, Danny Glover, and Ving Rhames, though each of these...

Simplistic view of war...

Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:31:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - I know that I’ll probably be branded as a communist for saying this, and worse, as an American heretic, but here goes: “Saving Private Ryan” is not a good movie.

I can understand the hubbub around the spectacular special effects – Star Wars...

Dead Souls Haunting

Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:03:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - When I read this book last year, I remember being a little bit let down by it. It didn’t seem to be what I was expecting, and I recall having forgotten that I’d read a few of his short stories. When I did remember the stories, I remembered being not...

The Japanese Mind: An almost timeless report.

Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:33:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - The book is really an excellent one -- a concise, to-the-point summary of the Japanese mass psychology. Robert Christopher uses certain historical data to back this up, or rather to give his insights a theoretical point of origin. The most interesting...

Miller Sitting in the Sun

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:25:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - Like most of Miller’s essay collections, I’m just not as overwhelmed by this book as I am of his “novels” (The Tropics, The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy). There seems to be too much contentment in him when he writes his reflections, which (I’m sure) is...

The Soft Machine Trilogy -- a sort of memoir

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:20:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - I hadn’t read William Burroughs for about five years, and then it was only Junky and Queer that I read – hardly the least accessible of his works. I picked up Naked Lunch and Cities of the Red Death about three years before that, when I was still a...

Crowley, Aleister: The Law is For All

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:14:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author derek_h - Overall, I agree with what Mr. Crowley is saying: “The Law is for All; Love is the Law, Love under Will,” “Every man and every woman is a star,” and that the essence of the above statements is that each human being has to undergo a vigorous self-search...