© 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-jaderabbit Recent reviews written by member jaderabbit en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_169175977604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - In the small Japanese town of Kurozu-cho, something has gone awry. Sweet and mild-mannered high-schooler Kirie Goshima knows something is wrong when she finds Mr. Saito, her boyfriend's father, crouched in an alley shooting video footage of a snail. It... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~169175977604 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 03:49:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_169175977604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_152805084804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - The best thing about the so-called American Godzilla movie is that it spurred Toho, the Japanese owners of Godzilla, to reinvent Godzilla. Tossing traditional Godzilla mythology to the winds, director Shusuke Kaneko brews up a new Godzilla mythos... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~152805084804 Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:40:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_152805084804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_133507288708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - Japanese movie star Chiyoko Fujiwara retired thirty years ago, at the height of her acting career. When Ginei Studios' old properties are torn down, documentary director Genya Tachibana decides to commemorate one of Japan's great studios by interviewing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~133507288708 Wed, 17 Mar 2004 03:54:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_133507288708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_127851466372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - Sometimes people tell me that Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is deep. I believe that their minds, unable to grasp the vast meaninglessness of this movie, have simply added their own wishes for depth to it. Bill Murray plays Bob Harris, a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~127851466372 Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:41:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_127851466372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_53871677060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - Among the icy-blonde Clayr, with their gift of second sight, lives one dark-haired girl whose every birthday is a trial. As she grows taller, the younger girls around her gain the Sight and are accepted as adults in the clan, but Lirael has neither the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~53871677060 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:49:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_53871677060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_66240286340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - In the far future, after a hundred years of alien domination, the human race is dying at the bottom of the ocean. They've been forced there by aliens called SEs, who look like humans with tattoos on their foreheads. The humans have built five cyborg... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~66240286340 Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:55:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_66240286340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_48459714180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - I'd been salivating over the beautiful-but-violent trailers with their creepy music for over a year by the time Spriggan finally hit the screen. I was expecting something momentous. I didn't dare hope for another Akira, but when a secret... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~48459714180 Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:30:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_48459714180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_54294515332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - You arrive in Metropolis, an immense and grimy city of indeterminate nationality. Over you looms Ziggurat, a skyscraper whose use and purpose remain clouded in mystery as thick as the smog that belched out by the smokestacks. Whether you are foreign or... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~54294515332 Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:30:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_54294515332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_40406519428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - I confess that I judged my buying decision for Patricia Storace's travelogue Dinner with Persephone on its cover. The bursting pomegranate suggests an intimate book about an outsider steeping herself in the mythology of an exotic and beautiful... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~40406519428 Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:08:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_40406519428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_49883483780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - One hundred years in the future, a brilliant engineer builds starships so sophisticated, he has to go back in time to find pilots good enough to pilot them. Naturally, attractive teenage girls show greater aptitude than most. The best and brightest of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~49883483780 Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:28:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_49883483780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_42726166148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - In the distant future, vampires overrun the earth, murdering some humans and mating with others. Feared by humans and despised by vampires, the half-vampires, or "dunpeals," can live hundreds of years cursing their own cruel fate. One dunpeal, a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~42726166148 Tue, 6 Nov 2001 20:35:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_42726166148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_40034274948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - I wanted to love <I>Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey into Rural North Dakota</I>. When author Chuck Klosterman was a teenage headbanger in the upper Midwest, I was a teenage nerd in the upper Midwest. Heck, we may have run into one another at... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~40034274948 Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:02:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_40034274948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_39908576900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - Anyone who's caught a glimpse of the <I>Cardcaptors</I> TV show knows that the lovely art and animation are head and shoulders above those of most Saturday morning mainstays. What's less widely known is that the episodic, boy-hero <I>Cardcaptors</I>... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~39908576900 Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:38:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_39908576900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_39533121156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - Rurouni Kenshin, Volume IV: False Prophet</I> begins just outside a restaurant, so allow me a food metaphor. The middle three episodes deliver full-bodied stories with delicate, flavorful nuances--rare roast beef with an earthy, tangy mustard that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~39533121156 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:21:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_39533121156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_39532334724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - True to his own rurouni</I> code of honor, legendary swordsman Kenshin Himura has vowed to protect Megumi Takani, who begged for his protection from druglord Kanryu Takeda and the fearsome Oniwaban ninja group. Kenshin and his comrades--lanky,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~39532334724 Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:18:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_39532334724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_33839419012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - In Japanese folklore, the jin-roh is a "man-wolf"--not a werewolf, a human who turns into an animal and back again, but a mockery of humanity, a beast that walks on two legs. Hiroyuki Okiura's <I>Jin-Roh</I> examines an elite-force policeman's conflict... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~33839419012 Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:19:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_33839419012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_34219658884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - I preordered <B>Anime Toonz Presents Kikuko Inoue simply to hear the popular Japanese voice actress sing a few <I>anime</I> theme songs I like and a few I didn't know. With Japanese soundtracks running around thirty bucks a pop, it seemed like a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~34219658884 Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:38:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_34219658884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_15240760964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - When we last left our intrepid protagonist (it doesn't feel right to call the little moneygrubber a "hero"), sorceress Lina Inverse seemed destined for a slow and painful death in a dungeon. The semi-squamous Zelgadis and his henchmen think no torture... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~15240760964 Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:23:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_15240760964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_24028810884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - Normally, I wouldn't waste my time and yours by writing a review of a product that already has forty-odd reviews and expecting anybody to read it. However, now that I've seen the re-mastered, re-dubbed <I>Akira</I> Limited Special Edition, my fingers... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~24028810884 Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:46:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_24028810884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_20854181508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - In a world with no sunlight, all light comes from Sunstones, magical gems controlled by spells. In the Castle, sunstones denote status and confer power. <I>The Seventh Tower: The Fall</I> begins the story of Tal, a Chosen child of the Orange Order who... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~20854181508 Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:17:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_20854181508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_26027396740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - Robin Hudson's set for an enjoyable Halloween devoid of excess. The producer of All News Network's Special Reports plans to take her naive intern, Kathy Loblaws, on a tamed-down Girls' Night out with her friends, and then go home and crash. When the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~26027396740 Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:01:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_26027396740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_12644748932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - <I>Ogre Battle 64</I> combines the control and scope of a strategy game with the story and solid world of an RPG. The result is an engrossing mix of wargame and novel-like drama that speaks to both the power-gamer and the idealist. My husband and I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~12644748932 Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:55:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_12644748932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_19876449924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - Katsumi Liqueur has been to Hell and back. When she returns to the Attacked Mystification Police (AMP), her comrades aren't sure she's the Katsumi they know and love, or whether she's given in to the demonic Lucifer Hawks and become something they can't... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~19876449924 Wed, 16 May 2001 20:01:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_19876449924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_21011009156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - The dapper, sarcastic enchanter Chrestomanci, the character who ties together Diana Wynne Jones's four Chrestomanci novels, is enjoying a revival in these wizard-crazed times. The novels have come to light in paperback, hardcover, and omnibus editions... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~21011009156 Fri, 11 May 2001 18:00:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_21011009156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_15239384708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaderabbit - The very first scene sold me on the comedic fantasy anime <I>The Slayers</I>. A voice-over tells us that Lina Inverse is not only a powerful sorceress, but a marvelous human being, stopping bandits from their nefarious deeds. The animation shows... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~15239384708 Thu, 3 May 2001 20:55:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_15239384708?linkin_id=8003929