Epinions Recent Reviews for ebrown2

"This is the barbecue we had last night"-Lynching revealed in WITHOUT SANCTUARY (Revised Review)

Mon, 30 May 2005 23:35:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - America's Greatest Humorist does his Swift impersonation: "A dispatch from Memphis mentions that, of two negroes lately sentenced to death for murder in that vicinity, one named Woods has just confessed to having ravished a young lady during the...

Hollywood's First Star listens to the ants scream in FLORENCE LAWRENCE, THE BIOGRAPH GIRL

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:27:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - CONQUEROR WORMS: "They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living."-Errol Flynn On Wednesday, Dec. 28, 1938, a young woman named Marion Menzer heard screams from the house next door. She found her neighbor, a 52 year-old...

Peter Greenaway meditates on birds and immortality in THE FALLS (Revised Review)

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:41:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - (This review was originally in the Suggest Products area, I revised it and reposted it here) Before he gained world-wide fame as the creator of THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT and THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER, Peter Greenaway learned his...

The Persistence of Angels with Dirty Memories: MST3K: Angels' Revenge

Wed, 12 May 2004 00:28:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - For those who don’t know what MST3K is, please check out my review here, where I explain the show's premise and appeal: ht
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"It is a film that ought to have bankrupted everyone connected to it!" Walter Kerr

Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:14:43 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - Before everyone has a stroke over my giving THIS film a bad rating, take a really close look at the VHS picture in the upper left hand corner. Notice that fellow that looks like Oliver Hardy on the left? That IS Oliver Hardy, and this is the entry for...

No Cavaliers need Apply in Preston Filbert's THE HALF NOT TOLD

Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:08:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - A few years back, I was working in the university bookstore with an older man named Nick, a former Virginian whose avocation was the study of the Civil War era. I asked him if he had continued his investigations here in Missouri, and he replied in the...

"Did you ever see a dream walking?" Dana Andrews does, in Otto Preminger's LAURA

Thu, 6 Jun 2002 01:06:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - "I shall never forget the weekend Laura died. A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass. It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection. I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York. For Laura's horrible death, I was...

T.V. Turkeys-The Horror Made Flesh

Sun, 3 Feb 2002 02:53:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - Rightly assailed as a "vast wasteland," television has been the dumping ground for the detritus of American Pop Culture since its inception. Even its so-called "golden age" was a case of parasitism off of the last gasps of vaudeville and live New York...

We can dismember it for you wholesale...MST3K: THE CRAWLING HAND

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:42:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - "It's the little things that you miss..."

The Crawling Hand (1963)- Episode 106 of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000

"While I understand Best Brains' decision not to air these episodes anymore, there is a certain specialness...

Archived Web Services Reviews: A guide to the recent Carnival of Crime in England-THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDAR

Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:52:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - While taking a break from writing a spec script "Cats and Dogs II," featuring Mr. Bigglesworth the Sphinx from AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME (voiced by Eddie Murphy, of course, catchphrase "Where's my G*$Damned Fur, dogboy?"), I decided to take a...

It's a REEL life horror movie for film fans-KEEPERS OF THE FRAME (H2WO)

Sun, 4 Nov 2001 04:24:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - SCREAM!- as you realize that 90% of all silent films are gone forever...

THRILL!- to the realization that the "safety stock" that the remainder are stored on has an ugly habit of degenerating into black vinegar...

SHUDDER!- as...

To sink below Coleman Francis-the turgid terror of MST3K's WILD WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN

Sat, 29 Sep 2001 02:07:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - The topic of "Worst Director of All Time" has long been a subject for debate among B-movie mavens. Some will throw out Arch Hall Sr., or Coleman Francis, or even try to sneak by Ed Wood. However, -my- vote for the bottom of the barrel in Z films goes to...

ORLANDO: The Queen's Geas, "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old"

Tue, 7 Aug 2001 01:16:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - If you had ageless existence, how would you choose to spend your time? Would you seize the day and live life to the hilt, or take your unbelievable good fortune and become the ultimate slacker? As much as we mere mortals are reminded of the finitude of...

TWILIGHT OF THE COCKROACHES - "What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?" (Anime W/O)

Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:31:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - Insects have had a curiously long history in animation. Ladislas Starwicz, the amateur Polish entomologist and nature film-maker, started his career photographing the little buggers in their natural state. When the hot lights used by 1909 film-makers...

Fritz Lang Dreams of Death in DESTINY [1921]-Underappreciated Films W/O

Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:32:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - A beautiful young woman staggers out of a time-lost German village in the dead of night, searching for her missing lover. She is drawn by an unknown magnetism to a wild meadow outside a high-walled garden with no discernible entrance. As she stumbles...

"Have you ever tasted adventure in your own bathtub?"

Sun, 8 Jul 2001 02:34:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - A seedy bum asks the above question, and we are suddenly thrust into a world where a former child star of personal hygiene films takes questionable dictation from a depressed and psychotic boss. Totty Tinkles found fame and fortune teaching such stars as...

Coleman Francis's dark designs take shape in THE SKYDIVERS

Thu, 5 Jul 2001 02:28:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - "My Swing Choir against yours-Mano A Mano!"

In the "cult film" community, opinion is badly split on the merits of the television show MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. For every one of its fans (like myself) who find it a funny and generally...

A dog in a wheelchair is good for your child!

Mon, 25 Jun 2001 01:12:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - If there's anything that I hate, it's cheap emotional manipulation. I like heart-warming stories as much as the next jamoke, but if you take me out back and gut-punch me I'll resent it. Therefore, when something comes along that is both uplifting and...

"The exquisite corpse drinks new wine..."

Sat, 23 Jun 2001 00:22:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - From: The Ministry of Fear

To: All Unauthorized Citizens

Subject: Survival in Al-Amarja

"A terrible screeching sound comes from above you, like someone ripping sheet metal in half. On the third floor of an apartment building, a...

Archived Web Services Reviews: Where else can you watch LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD in primetime?

Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:10:58 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - How would you like to turn on your TV set or computer and get great classic foreign and US films available during prime time? Well, during the week of June 11-15, 2001, you could see LA BETE' HUMAINE, THE SOUTHERNER, and TOPPER RETURNS at 8 p.m. EST on...

Albert Camus' THE STRANGER (not!) meets the Spaghetti Western in...

Sun, 10 Jun 2001 02:34:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - After seeing Grouch's excellent review of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, I just couldn't resist the long-standing impulse I've had to review the parody version...

It's only to be expected that parody and humor would eventually mark the...

"I felt very weak, as if I had lost my virginity..." (FIS Write-Off)

Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:51:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - Late at night, a lovely Mexican girl slowly creeps into a deserted castle. The fear on her face is evident as the creepiness of the surroundings sinks in. Suddenly, something thumps to the floor directly in front of her!

AAAAAAY!

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Hubris and Nemesis stalk Paul Henried in THE SCAR

Tue, 29 May 2001 00:26:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - Would you do -anything-, even kill, for the chance to escape from an impossible situation into a new life? This is the choice facing Paul Henreid as John Muller in THE SCAR (a.k.a. HOLLOW TRIUMPH-1948).

Muller is a medical school dropout with...

In a world dominated by dark conspiracies, how can you get a good dental plan?

Mon, 28 May 2001 02:15:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - As Rebecca tailed the Mover operative, she let her mind wander back to the first time she came to Al Amarja. She hadn't realized then the bizarre turn of events that would push an executive for the Girl Scouts of America (TM) into the battle against a...

Howard, Fine and Howard lend a touch of class to M-G-M

Sun, 27 May 2001 22:57:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ebrown2 - Two sinister clowns with German accents roll a drunken circus performer...

Joan Crawford gets the "treatment" from four backstage roughnecks...

A band of inept plumbers ogle the student body of a girl's college after their shower...