Epinions Recent Reviews for eiley123

Because I am worth it.

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:50:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - As part of my ongoing attempts to look after ME a little better I thought I would try and address my poor old skin. Having spent the best part of 2008 in a caravan, with a house undergoing restoration works, sadly most of our little treats and home...

No more spotty face.

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:38:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - This review relates to the British version of Oxy Pads.A few years ago I tried the oxy face cleaning pads which were packed in a blue tub. I only used them occasionally and called them my oxyacetylene. This was because at the first sign of a...

One Omen too many?

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:41:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Film only review. I am not a lover of Horror films as I am such a squeamish baby. However the Omen, released in 1976, was one of that genre of films which I quite enjoyed. It has plenty of suspense and the violence is not that all bloody, brutal...

Life's a B**ch.

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:29:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - The DVD box of About Schmidt has claims that this film is ‘hilarious’ and ‘a comic treasure‘. Perhaps it is because I am not that far from the age of the main characters that I felt that, despite being a funny film, it was more...

Why can't I wear striped pyjamas all day?

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:09:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - A short while ago I saw a few clips for a new movie called The boy in the Striped Pyjamas'. I thought it looked interesting and a little different and made a mental note to look out for it doing the rounds. However, this week, hubby arrived home from...

Last chance list

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:07:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - I had always thought that the saying, 'Kick the Bucket', which refers to a person dying, was a very English, slang statement. However, as this is exactly what is referred to in the title of the American film, The Bucket List', I guess it is a more...

You Don't Mess With the Zohan: I want to make your hair smooth and silky

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:50:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - No Spoilers included, well hardly. You Don’t Mess With The Zohan. Right! Adam Sandler stars as Zohan, an Israeli special forces super hero who seems to have the knack of excelling in everything he does, of being extremely...

Odds Bodkins

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:49:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Do you still believe in fairies? Well whether you do, or do not, I would think that you might enjoy watching the shenanigans of these little creatures in the Spiderwick Chronicles. This film is rated as PG and it is really a children’s film but...

Central Park gone mad.

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:35:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Cloverfield is a strange film. We rented the DVD along with a whole batch of others as a Blockbuster Special deal. I suppose it was because the films were so cheap to rent that Hubby and I chose quite a diversity of films. I had read a little about...

Be Kind and Avoid

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:03 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Review contains minor spoilers. I saw some clips of 'Be Kind Rewind' at the cinema recently and thought it looked as if it would be a very funny movie. It seemed to have plenty going for it. Jack Black, whom I love, takes the lead role and the...

Mamma Mia!: Oh Mamma

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:05:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Despite the fact that Hubby was always more of a fan of Abba music than I was, I could not persuade him to go with me to the cinema to see Mamma Mia'. So, last Tuesday afternoon, a girl friend and I trotted off to the matinee performance at a local...

What's all this about then?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:52:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - I happened to watch this film almost by accident. Channel hopping around another evening of television dross, in the hope of finding something entertaining and a little different, I discovered ‘Secret Window’. I have to say that for me it fitted both of...

Floppy cottontails

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:18:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - I came across the film Miss Potter on the old goggle box a week or two ago. I did not actually fancy watching this film but there was little else listed and my husband for one reason or another wanted to watch it. I have to say that all in all I was glad...

As good as chocolate? Almost!

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:10:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Special K cereal is, and has always been, marketed as a dieter's friend. It has slightly less calories than your normal everyday cereals and has less of the nasty elements such as high salt and sugar content. There are quite a few varieties of Special K...

Penelope: Oink, Oink

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:44:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - This film only review, only contains minor plot spoilers. Living in a caravan on my small garden, whilst my house is in the process of being dried out from last years floods, has been somewhat soul destroying. In fact it has been a pain in the...

Da Dum

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:06:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Jaws these days is somewhat of a classic among thriller or monster movies. Released in 1975 the 'Monster' in this film had come along way from the likes of King Kong back in 1933. The film Jaws was adapted from a best selling book by Peter Benchley...

Burton at his best.

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:30:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - FILM ONLY REVIEW Some films date really quickly and the screenplay, sets or terminology can be dead giveaways as to when a film was made. Watching Anne Of A Thousand Days this weekend , from now on to be referred to as AOATD, one of my strongest...

A colourful sight in Spring

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:19:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - One of my favourite flowering shrubs has just recently finished flowering for yet another year. We had our first Forsythia quite few years ago, in our second home, and recently have rediscovered this pretty Spring shrub. I bought the one I have in the...

You Cad.

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:13:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Steve Martin and Michael Caine co-star in this very funny 1988 film of deception and double deception set on the French Riviera. Caine as an aging, English, fake aristocratic, gigolo is perfect, as is Martin as the younger, rough and ready, philanderer...

Diddle um, Diddle um.

Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:44:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - Film only review. High Noon is a classic Western which was filmed in Black and White, and released in 1952, prior to the spaghetti westerns of the late 1960's which had their own style and sense of realism. High Noon follows the tried and tested...

An Old Faithful still going strong.

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:26:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - >>>>>>>&g
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We bought our first Personal Computer way back in 1997. As novices we read up on equipment but then let the specialist...

Cherry Cherry.

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:08:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - COKE AND ME Firstly I need to say that I am not the World’s biggest Coca-cola fan, or drinker for that matter. I occasionally have a Coke or Pepsi and, when I do, I always buy the sugar free option, even if I am planning on scoffing a Mars bar as...

A friend in need.

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:46:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - BACKGROUND When Hubby and I married in 1972 everyone, including ourselves used to call us the Odd couple. My husband was extremely untidy, liked to slob around and preferred to live in a very casual manner. On the other hand I was very house proud,...

A bit of a damp squib.

Sun, 1 Jun 2008 09:22:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - MORECAMBE AND WISE. Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise were a well known comedy duo who performed together for many years. They had regular television shows with both the BBC and ITV channels over a period of about twenty years. They had served their...

Love or Hate?

Sat, 31 May 2008 08:55:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eiley123 - It is a while ago since we visited Malta but, reading other writer’s sometimes derogatory reviews of this Island, I thought I would add my opinion. Malta lies almost at the centre of the Mediterranean and is 93km south of Sicily and 288km north of...