© 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-jarvococker Recent reviews written by member jarvococker en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_463947468420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - There's a tour de force sequence midway through David Fincher's THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON which speaks to the film's musings on fate and chance with stunning clarity. Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) narrates the minutiae of disconnected events and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463947468420 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:59:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463947468420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463847526020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - The new action thriller TAKEN is built around a ridiculous conceit. When his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped shortly after travelling to Paris, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has the savvy and resources to punt over to France and go... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463847526020 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:04:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463847526020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463788478084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Wes Craven, who directed the original "Last House on the Left," famously walked out of a screening of "Reservoir Dogs." As an audience member, he took offense to the sequence where Mr. Blond tortures the cop. The irony is that Craven's own film featured... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463788478084 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:25:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463788478084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463218314884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - James Gray's new film TWO LOVERS is a marvel of a film that  engages audiences while expressing nothing particularly new or fascinating. And yet this exquisitely acted character drama about a remorse young man shuffling through a romantic fog is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463218314884 Mon, 9 Mar 2009 04:41:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463218314884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463095828100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Marchello's journal--March 6. The squalid remnants of the snowstorm that rocked MoCo earlier in the week litters the streets outside AMC Loews Rio with streaks of mudcaked footprints, emblematic of the raw sewage of geek filled, sex... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463095828100 Sun, 8 Mar 2009 03:38:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463095828100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462387515012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Early in FRIDAY THE 13TH, a group of young adults make the pilgrimage to Camp Crystal Lake, which supposedly houses a sweet depository of weed. And a homicidal legend. Regardless, the prospect of riches outweighs the risk of horrible... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462387515012 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:47:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462387515012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423472434820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Midway through A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, George Harrison stumbles into the production offices of smug Simon Marshall (An uncredited Kenneth Haigh), who runs a "hip" trendsetting television program and tosses about mod phrases like "cheeky baby" and "sonny... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423472434820 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:16:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423472434820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423252102788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Berlin, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is a poker faced con artist at heart, making his living forging passports and producing counterfeit currency. Life is a swinging cabaret for this Russian Jew. "You could be a real great artist," a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423252102788 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:24:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423252102788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423202295428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Nine year old Carlos Reyes (Adrian Alonso) lives in a small Mexican town with his sick grandmother (Angelina Palaez). His mother Rosario (Kate Del Castillo) is an illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles. Carlito hasn't seen her in four years. She sends... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423202295428 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:26:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423202295428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_422363762308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - In THE BAND'S VISIT, the eight Egyptian members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra find themselves stranded at an Israeli airport when the welcome they were expecting from their embassy is nowhere to be found. Sticking out like sore thumbs... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~422363762308 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:21:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_422363762308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_422312119940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - FUNNY GAMES opens with the Farber clan--Ann (Naomi Watts), George (Tim Roth), and their son Georgie (Devon Gearhart)--in their SUV driving to their summer home. Ann and George entertain themselves with a game. They each select a classical music piece on... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~422312119940 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:07:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_422312119940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421703421572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - In THE DARJEELING LIMITED, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman star as brothers Francis, Peter and Jack Whitman. Estranged since their father's death, they have reunited in India at Francis' request for a quasi-spiritual retreat, much needed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421703421572 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:34:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421703421572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421477781124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is a down on her luck governess in drab clothing with a spotty record who in appearance isn't so far removed from Nanny McPhee (Minus the facial blemishes). Sacked from her current position and homeless, Miss... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421477781124 Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:45:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421477781124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421390749316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Terry Leather (Jason Statham) is a cool, used car shop owner with an eye on the future and a hand in petty crime. When an old friend from the neighborhood, Martine (Saffron Burrows, looking gaunt and lovely enough to be Keira Knightley's older sister),... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421390749316 Sun, 9 Mar 2008 02:38:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421390749316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421028597380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Glen Hansard busks late in the evening on an empty Dublin sidewalk. As he pours his heart into a morose lament on lost love and the hope for reconciliation, accompanied by a battered acoustic guitar to compliment his ragged appearance, the handheld... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421028597380 Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:59:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421028597380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_420812000900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Just five minutes into EASTERN PROMISES is enough to realize that director David Cronenberg is either some mad genius of cinematic discomfort or very possibly the sickest man to ever pick up a camera. For before audiences are introduced to the film's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~420812000900 Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:44:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_420812000900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_419836497540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Besides prestige, winning an Academy Award brings with it heaps of artistic license, and Ang Lee's directing triumph for "Brokeback Mountain" has by all accounts given him sufficient muscle to realize his lifelong ambition: to become Paul Verhoeven!... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~419836497540 Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:17:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_419836497540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_420586491524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - "One of our duties as teenagers," Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) speaks with the plain wisdom of a self appointed, teenage screen messiah, "is to occasionally piiiiiss our parents off." Amen to that. While there is a small kernel of truth in this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~420586491524 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:33:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_420586491524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_420469313156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - "I failed you as an elder sister," Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) confesses to Mary (Scarlett Johansson) in a rare moment of sisterly intimacy early in the new film THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL. The occasion is Mary's wedding night to a chump (Translation--no... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~420469313156 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 00:14:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_420469313156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404801425028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - "As long as possible live free and uncommitted." No, this isn't some credo for bachelors, but advice to future generations from Thoreau's "Walden." It's a romantic summons to set enough time aside to carve your own identity into the rugged, open abyss... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404801425028 Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:40:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404801425028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404546817668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - There's a moment late in DEATH PROOF that knocks me out whenever I see it. It's during the ecstatic "Ship's Mast" sequence, which is just the start of a legendary set piece that should redefine action pyrotechnics for future film generations. Stuntwoman... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404546817668 Tue, 2 Oct 2007 02:57:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404546817668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404177456772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - With ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, Julie Taymor has taken her considerable visionary chops, her flair for innovative story telling, her zest for the theatricality of moments, and chucked them out the window. What may have sounded good during brainstorming... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404177456772 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:33:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404177456772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404053003908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Don't tell anybody, but I left the screening of IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH of an opinion I never thought I'd live to admit--Paul Haggis has actually crafted a good movie. Possibly even a great one. Written and directed by Haggis ("Crash"), I was readily... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404053003908 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:09:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404053003908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_403951423108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Almost as a wink to the increasingly trite and self important habit of movies proclaiming they're based on true stories, Richard Shepard's new film THE HUNTING PARTY opens with this knowing salvo: "Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true."... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403951423108 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:32:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403951423108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_284126645892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jarvococker - Flabbergasted. That's the primary feeling I had watching the new drama BOBBY. Not because the film is anything great--it isn't--but rather because it's writer/director is none other than Emilio Estevez. Who would have ever thought the film maker behind... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~284126645892 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:22:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_284126645892?linkin_id=8003929