Epinions Recent Reviews for jankp

How NOT To Make A Good Movie: Robert Benton's Twilight~

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:51:21 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Recently I was suckered into watching a 1998 movie that may be one of the finest examples of how not< i> to make a good movie and its dubious claim to fame has rendered me reflective. Why was such a movie ever able to land a studio Or usually...

Gypsy/Rom Band Taraf De Haidouks Puts On A Joyous Maskarada!

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:21:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Johnny Depp first met the already highly-esteemed band Taraf de Haidouks (Band of Gypsies) while filming the Sally Potter film The Man Who Cried< b> released in 1994 and he has praised their very unique talent as expressing the most intense joy. I...

Brock Cole's The Goats: Banned But Loved By Young Adults~

Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:09:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - We are celebrating Banned Books Week and so I looked again at my library's display shelves with banned or challenged books. 1987's The Goats by first-time novelist Brock Cole sounded and looked intriguing from its cover and I took a closer look...

Dr. Freudine Feels The Paranoia Of Philip K. Dick Story, A Scanner Darkly~

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:47:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she became intrigued by Walter Dean Myers' banned book, Fallen Angels.*****************After
leaving the library...

Dr. Freudine Intrigued With Harlem Writer's Still Banned Fallen Angels~

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:00:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my inspiring alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she had fun watching Deathtrap by the late Sidney Lumet.******************In
the morning I wake up to...

Anthropologist's American Saga Of The West Before It Was Won~

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:43:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - She closed her eyes and began to sing, calling upon Wolf and the Spirit Powers to help her. The magnitude of what she was attempting awed her. So many strands of her life had come undone. Worry about White men had been gnawing at her. Her...

Ralph Bakshi's Fire & Ice: Before Thom Kinkade Became A Famous Painter~

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:16:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - While I do have pretty eclectic tastes, it surprised me a little that I enjoyed 1983's animated fantasy film for adults, Fire and Ice, so much. All I knew about it was that the famous painter Thomas Kinkade worked on the background paintings for it with...

Sally Potter's Sensuous Dream Of Paris, Johnny Depp & Opera/Gypsy Music~

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:59:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Recently I've been more aware that there are two hemispheres of our brains, the right and the left, and that I live in a left brain-dominant society in the United States. This has been encouraged probably since World War 2, the period of the 2000 film by...

Simon Bloom, Gravity Keeper, Is Our Newest, Bravest Kid Superhero!

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:26:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - There are lots of fictitious superheroes who defy the imagination as well as the capabilities of the average human being. Either they've been bitten by something or come into their strange powers by accident. Well, I'm not sure about Superman, but isn't...

Hakugei: Legend Of The Moby Dick Is No Classic Like Melville's Novel~

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:54:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I hope you don't mind, but I've watched all twenty-six episodes of Osamu Dezaki's Hakugei: The Legend of the Moby Dick on DVD in six volumes and I'm going to give you, I hope, an entertaining overview as well as review of the series. Does that make sense...

"Painter Of Light" Thomas Kinkade's Story Is In His Art~

Tue, 9 Sep 2008 03:17:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I learned about Thomas Kinkade from my mother. She has been putting together big jigsaw puzzles for maybe two years now and her favorite kind of puzzle is a painting by Kinkade. When she couldn't find his painting in jigsaw puzzle form of a covered...

Nebraskan Ghost Stories Collected By Lincoln Minister~

Sun, 7 Sep 2008 02:02:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Ghost stories are not what I usually read as they're far more enjoyable listened to around a late campfire or with a group of impressionable kids. Still I was curious when my neighbor told me about a minister here in Lincoln, Nebraska who collected and...

Dr. Freudine Needs To Blow Up After Sidney Lumet's Deathtrap~

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:38:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she enjoyed a new perspective of Moby Dick with Jack's help.*****************
Irish
twiddles his thumbs...

Dr. Freudine Tickled With Jack's Gay Assessment Of Moby Dick~

Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:57:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she read a poem by Jan called "America I Beseech Thee."********************
I
no more hang up from a...

David Ayers' Street Kings Got A Bad Rap From Critics~

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:15:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I’m not much of a fan of high-action, bloody, cop thrillers like 2008’s Street Kings. I haven’t even watched L.A. Confidential, Harsh Times or Training Day that are fairly similar to it, having screenwiter/now...

The Leptin Diet: When To Eat As Vital As What To Eat~

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:22:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - There are only five sound rules to follow in order to keep in balance (or bring back into balance) your master hormone leptin. They seem sound to me because Byron Richards, a board-certified clinical nutritionist with plenty of medical journal articles...

Between Life And Death, A Frenchman Blinks To Write Memoirs In Julian Schnabel Film~

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:56:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I didn’t know at first if I would enjoy 2007’s Le Scaphandre et la papillon or, more universally, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. This true French story is told from the perspective of a forty-two year old man who is suddenly...

Archaeologists' Dramatic Revelation Of Jesus' Lost (Buried) Life~

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:31:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Recently having returned from the annual Science Fiction Conference, Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, authors of the 2008 novel The Betrayal: The Lost Life Of Jesus, observe in their website’s blog that there were many more...

Christopher & Dana Reeve Lovingly Remembered In Somewhere In Heaven~

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:12:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Despite being practicing Unitarian Universalists, Christopher and Dana Reeve have been given Christian spirits in an afterlife I’m not sure they believed in. The only contact I’ve ever had with a Unitarian was a professor one starry night contemplating...

When I'm A Rock 'n' Roll Star: The David Cassidy Collection - David Cassidy: "Best" Of David Cassidy's 4h - 6th 1970s' Albums On When I'm A R&R Star~

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:16:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - After reviewing a slew of David Cassidy’s albums on CD, I’ve taken much longer (about two months) to think about my review of the 1996 CD, When I’m A R&R Star: The David Cassidy Collection. It is a compilation of songs from...

Martin Fletcher - Breaking News: Martin Fletcher Reports from the Front: War Correspondent Martin Fletcher Reflects On Job In Breaking News~

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:17:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - It’s taken me a month and two other books (Nuclear Nebraska and The Obama Nation) to finish Martin Fletcher’s 2008 book, Breaking News, but finally I have. Other people will undoubtedly find his musings of life as a war correspondent much...

Liza Minnelli Continues 1972 Winning Streak With Bob Fosse At Helm~

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:02:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - After winning an Oscar for her riveting performance in Cabaret, Liza Minnelli again collaborated with director/choreographer Bob Fosse and lyricists John Kander and Fred Ebb in Showtime’s Liza With a Z. Fortunately for us Liza saved the...

Dr. Freudine Gets Lowdown From Jan On The Obama Nation~

Tue, 5 Aug 2008 03:06:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she had fun listening to Gregorian Chant: Hortus Musicus. ************** Jan follows me into the kitchen with the...

Dr. Freudine Impressed With Medieval Estonian Music And Modern Poetry~

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:53:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she was impressed with An Introduction To Gregorian Chant. ***************** I hesitate over choosing between...

Grace is Gone: John Cusack's Grace Is Gone: Much More Than A Political Film~

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:32:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Whether or not you support the U.S.’s war against Iraq, the 2007 Sundance winner Grace Is Gone will poignantly communicate to you what we can all agree on, that it has caused an harrowing amount of tragic loss to our country and its citizens...