Epinions Recent Reviews for jaieinmiami

Turn of the Century

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:23:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - “Turn-of-the-century” is not a phrase you hear any more; that’s because, 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, people were still using it to refer to the period of the late 1800s and early 1900s, a quaint period where things like long-distance radio,...

Away From Her: August Years

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:35:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie create the most fascinating portrait of the august years of a marriage since Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn in On Golden Pond, 25 years ago. In On Golden Pond, Hepburn's Ethel Thayer held...

Waking Nightmare and Northern Exposure

Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:46:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - ONE OF THE 10 BEST FILMS OF 2002. 31-year-old British director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Following) made the leap from small-scale, critically acclaimed independent filmmaking to big-budget Hollywood commercial moviemaking with startling...

Murk and Tweed: Society of the Insane

Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:37:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - The human ego is a marvelously complex thing, and in Gosford Park you'll get to see about 40 of them barely bridled by the societal reigns we out here in the general public largely accept as a given. What's fascinating about Gosford...

What Nightmares May Come

Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:52:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - The new film Signs is director M. Night Shyamalan's attempt to woo back the audiences he won so spectacularly with his breakthrough film The Sixth Sense and lost with equal aplomb in his impenetrable follow-up, Unbreakable. Like...

I Had An Epiphany Watching This Stunning Photographic Essay

Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:01:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - Chop Suey focuses on internationally-celebrated fashion photographer Bruce Weber's personal feelings about two of his favourite people.

One is the gorgeous young Wisconsian wrestler Peter Johnson, whom Weber imports to New York to build...

Black Hawk? It's American idealism down in the Somalian dust

Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:59:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - "The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred... from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations." -...

THE RING: The Meek Shall Inherit (Middle) Earth

Thu, 17 Jan 2002 03:28:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - If I get 10 hits off this, I'll be happy. As the 184th published Epinion on The Fellowship of the Ring, nearly a month after its release, I realize I'm not winning any prizes for timeliness or relevancy. But with Oscar talk in the air -...

Muhommad Ali

Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:33:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - Ali is a movie everybody wants to love as much as they love its subject: the great sports legend Muhommad Ali. Michael Mann's big, expensive bio-pic delivers what we want, but it also suffers some disfocus with Mann's interest in relating the...

Harriet Potter!

Fri, 23 Nov 2001 08:34:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - There are 2 wizards in movie theatres right now. One is a British teenager pretending (with mixed results) to be challenged by the pre-adolescent fears that come with turning 11 under the name of Harry Potter. The other is a sweet...

O Modern Movie, Where Art Thou?

Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:15:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - Masterful film stylists Joel & Ethan Coen's new film, The Man Who Wasn't There, contains adultery, blackmail, murder, "pansies" (not the flower), embezzelment, pedophilia, hangings, viscious beatings, and electric chair capital punishment.
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David Lynch's Mucky, Hollow Drive: Off The Cliff

Sun, 21 Oct 2001 22:41:56 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - "In dreams/I walk/with you." - Roy Orbison, "In Dreams"

Once upon a time, David Lynch seemed a filmmaker of great promise. Movies like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, even Dune, plus his television pilot of Twin...

The L.I.E. That Speaks The Truth

Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:32:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - 14-year-old Howie Blitzer sports two black eyes for most of the new film L.I.E., and it's comically appropriate for this young Long Islander: poor Howie is being pummelled by life.

Howie's mother has just died in an automobile accident...

BAD LIEUTENANT

Mon, 8 Oct 2001 02:56:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - Have you ever arrived for your first day on a job you really, really thought you wanted, and busted your butt to get, only to get that sickening feeling two hours later that you'd made an awful mistake?

That's what happens to Ethan Hawke,...

What was I doing? Oh, I'm writing about a movie, a movie called "Memento"

Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:55:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - In these days of great uncertainty and insecurity, Memento stands out as an artwork truly in touch with the zeitgeist - even more so than earlier this year when it was in theaters. What, after all, do we really know about the very recent past...

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY - Ain't it Funny?

Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:21:07 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - (Disclaimer: if you are looking for a conventional recommendation on whether you & your date or friends should choose THE GLASS HOUSE as an entertainment for the evening, you should probably go elsewhere. My goal is not to be "most helpful" in that...

O: Green-Eyed Monster

Wed, 5 Sep 2001 01:06:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - The hero of the edgy teen drama O is not Mekhi Phifer; nor is it Josh Hartnett or Julia Stiles. The hero of O is jealousy.

Jealousy is the star in O; jealousy sets the plot in motion and jealousy motivates the characters...

Year of the Rat

Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:46:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - I'm such a seriously intense dude, any excuse to cut loose for some truly inspired silliness is as welcome as cool everfresh breath mints to morning cotton-mouth. Until Rat Race came along, the last time I fell out of my seat laughing at divinely...

The Art of the Voice-Over

Sat, 25 Aug 2001 21:54:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - The 40-year career of robust comedian Dom Deluise has included several supporting turns in low-grade box office hits such as Smokey and the Bandit, History of the World Part I, and Cannonball Run. Yet the best work of his career is a movie...

Undead: The Ghoulish Fishers of HBO's Six Feet Under

Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:55:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - The 4 core members of the Fisher family of Pasadena, CA, look pretty much like what you'd expect people who live around the dead to look like: pale, pasty, bug-eyed crazy. Nate and David, the two grown-up brothers who operate the small funeral home they...

Tim Burton's Banana Republic

Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:02:08 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - Early in Ron Fricke's 70mm extravaganza Baraka, there is a scene of some old orangutans bathing themselves in some Tibetan hot springs. Gazing into the eyes of these beasts, you could swear they have souls as old as time - that they have seen it...

Some of the worst things imaginable are done with the best of intentions.

Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:46:08 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - There's one truly spooky moment in Jurassic Park III, the latest installment of doomed expeditions to the Costa Rican islands habitated by havoc-wreaking, genetically-recreated dinosaurs.

It's not when the token kid is getting picked...

Cinderfella, in which the ugly duckling meets the trophy boy

Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:50:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - The tricky title of Trick refers to the famed capacity gay men have for transactional sex - boy likes boy, boy has sex with boy, both boys move on.

Initially, that's what Trick wants to appear to be about: two frisky NYC boys...

Scenes From A (Celebrity) Marriage

Tue, 24 Jul 2001 04:04:34 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - Now that Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman are getting divorced, doesn't Eyes Wide Shut look a whole lot different!

If a general consensus over this much puzzled-over 1999 film prevails, the verdict seems to be it's too opaque, too...

Who Knew? It's time for a Bush revival

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:15:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jaieinmiami - Maybe it's just the searing, oppressively humid Miami summer heat, but nearly everything has been p*ssing me off this month. It started when my air conditioner broke and my landlord took three days to replace it - with a used, semi-broken one...