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This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-frwhiskey Recent reviews written by member frwhiskey en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_490509340292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - The House on Haunted Hill, a 1958 horror film starring Vincent Price, sets a ridiculous murder plot up in a mauseleum-style huge house on a hill.  (It's a home in Lose Angeles, built by Frank Lloyd Wright, in ancient Mesopotamian... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490509340292 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:12:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490509340292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488312049284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - This film of a true story from 1927 Berlin is a good representation of Weimar Republic youth - or so people would claim.  A wealthy young man befriends a fellow rebel from his Steglitz neighborhood school - only the brilliant and poetic friend is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488312049284 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:40:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488312049284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484166307460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - Khalid Housseini's novel is a page-turner, regardless what critics may say about his somewhat simplistic writing.  His gift is indeed that of a storyteller - even if all the elements and characters are contrived, who cares?  A good story is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484166307460 Tue, 8 Sep 2009 03:24:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484166307460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_49430105732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - Kevin Kline plays the stereotypical Californian, a man lucky enough to work in his chosen field, architecture, yet hate his job for 20 years. When he's finally fired - since computer models have replaced his 3-D model-building skills - he's presumably... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~49430105732 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:48:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_49430105732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482724318852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - The plot may be thin in this film - just as the Alaska ice is too thin!  The basic story is capitalizing on the theory of global warming, with the permafrost defrosting in the dead of winter.And so we begin at a far outpost of an oil... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482724318852 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:45:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482724318852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475792903812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - Yes, the old coal-mining town in ex-Soviet Mongolia is horrendously grim, starkly set in a frozen environment.  The yurts on the huge, empty plains surrounded by sheep and horses remind a viewer that this is the origin of so many Native Americans -... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475792903812 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:29:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475792903812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458333785732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - BACKGROUND TO THE FILM:  Harvey Milk, a middle-class Jewish New Yorker of exceptional wit and intelligence, flounders abundantly in his adult life as a promiscuous gay, an undecided in any career path, and a narcissus lost and alone on his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458333785732 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:13:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458333785732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_445190016644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - CAVEAT: Do not rent the wrong Bonhoeffer film; one is a documentary with a lot of talking heads; this is the German-Canadian drama of his life. (The former has been reviewed here at Epinions).Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the outspoken Lutheran minister... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~445190016644 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:08:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_445190016644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_444424294020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - This story will attract those interested in pre-Nazi Germany and Poland, because it is based on a true strongman of the times. In this film by Werner Herzog, the Polish Jewish peasant/blacksmith Zishe Breitbart is spotted at a travelling circus, brought... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~444424294020 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:39:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_444424294020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_444414267012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - This 1990 fim features Dennis Quaid as a yong American-Irish union organizer, Jack McGurn, a film projectionist by trade. He is constantly in trouble with his provocative speeches against the owners and capitalists. He is fired in Brooklyn, considers... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~444414267012 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:00:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_444414267012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_444046413444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - Elijah Wood plays a young Jewish-American in search of his roots in this oddball film, basically a roadtrip back in the Ukraine in an old (GDR) Trabant. He makes contact with a bickering three-generation family who run "Heritage Tours", to take "rich... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~444046413444 Mon, 8 Sep 2008 04:18:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_444046413444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442779930244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - I thought a children's film would cheer me up, especially a goofy Halloween movie. It did warm my heart, to think that an old, retired and eccentric magician (Ben Kingsley) would decide to finally adopt an orphan boy, and even bring back his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442779930244 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:51:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442779930244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442393398916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - If you love Scandanavia, here is a film to avoid. The story of a lonely night-watchman, Koistenen, befriended suddenly by a strange woman in an empty cafe, who is misled to believe that he is in love and/or being loved: whew, this is one heavy-duty... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442393398916 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:44:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442393398916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442282446468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - Anyone interested in Hungary and Romania would theoretically like to see this film. A more boring and self-indulgent film about a trip back home I've never seen. Elie Wiesel, a well-known writer about the European Jewish persecution, goes back to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442282446468 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:46:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442282446468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441421500036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - This is a slow story of a professor, age 45, married with one child, content with his life in a "little paradise". That is his work at the university, lecturing on Persian writers; his kind wife and mother; his comfortable home and garden; his Braille... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441421500036 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:39:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441421500036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441184587396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - This is the first of prodigious-producer Eric Rohmer, who in his 70's started a series of four morality films, each a tale of the season. So "Conte de Printemps" is the first, with its morale rather opaque to a modern American audience. Even the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441184587396 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:45:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441184587396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440566124164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - In bed for weeks with an Achilles Tendon rupture, I truly loved the book "The World According to Garp", centered as it was on the life of a nurse, her illegitimate son, injuries, accidents and deaths all happening regularly but arbitrarily. The book... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440566124164 Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:25:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440566124164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439251078788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - This movie is good for many laughs, whether intentional or not. I began to suspect it was written by a woman, to make fun of male scientists' stupidity. The line is ofttimes repeated in the film, "We made her a female so she's be easier to handle"... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439251078788 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:44:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439251078788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433084468868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - Cary Grant's role in this, his penultimate film, in his early 60's, is said to be closest to his true personality. He plays a drop-out college history professor, fed up with wearing ties and teaching copycat boys in similar ties, so off he went to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433084468868 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 01:58:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433084468868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_428227464836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - Here is a very long drawn out British film which, simply stated, presents this plot: widowed, once philandering man, now old and grim but at the peak of his work, finds himself deeply depressed at his teenage daughter's anger towards him. He becomes... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~428227464836 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:19:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_428227464836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426611805828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - When a film is this perfect, yes, flawless, I find myself unable to go on and on, because it is as if one ate a perfect piece of cheesecake, and is then asked, while in bliss, to describe the cheesecake. First of all, London of 1960's, its grey and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426611805828 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:02:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426611805828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424175308420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - My overwhelming sense in watching this film was a sense of happiness that SOMEONE did not give up, complain, whine, go on disability or welfare, or refuse to be happy and cheerful for his customers. He learned their names, tipped them for their helpful... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424175308420 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:28:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424175308420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423677038212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - This new Austrian-German coproduction, filmed in Vienna, Monte Carlo and the Babelsberg studios of Potsdam, is a fantastic reenactment of the famous "Operation Bernhard". The idea by the Nazis wasn't a bad one: print the English pound - later the U.S... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423677038212 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:30:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423677038212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421466640004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - This story operates at many levels: Albert Finney, playing a classic professor at an elite boys boarding school in England, is being fired after 18 years' service, for the school wishes to modernize - and that means, in the 1980's, bringing in a modern... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421466640004 Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:41:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421466640004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_420750397060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author frwhiskey - FDR and Eleanor may not engage as hot topics these days, although we hear endlessly about FDR in WWII history classes. For the casual viewer, sceptical that their early years of dating, education and marriage, could be of any interest: you're wrong!... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~420750397060 Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:38:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_420750397060?linkin_id=8003929