© 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-jeffcoffy Recent reviews written by member jeffcoffy en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1412-2A192E99-3A05D36F-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - In the 1980's, most highbrow critics declared the horror film dead. The kinds of horror films we got then were usually comedies in nature, like "Evil Dead 2" (1987) or "Re-Animator" (1985) or were full of sudden... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1058624 Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:43:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1412-2A192E99-3A05D36F-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-5B47-1066762D-3A032518-prod2?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - “Charade” is a peculiar film because it represents the absolute best of Hollywood filmmaking without actually contributing anything to the history of cinema. It's a perfectly constructed entertainment film, perfectly perched in its time. It represents a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1058919 Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:51:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-5B47-1066762D-3A032518-prod2?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1C9F-1065CA21-3A032360-prod2?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - You will have to decide where you stand. Do you love cinema enough to want to see an exciting, groundbreaking, and astonishing new film, Darren Aronofsky's “Requiem for a Dream”? Or are you unwilling to put yourself through what is undeniably a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1058922 Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:44:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1C9F-1065CA21-3A032360-prod2?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6540-10622E6B-3A031A23-prod2?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - We all have certain expectations for movies, especially movies as heavily advertised as “Charlie’s Angels.” But sometimes, very rarely, we go to these movies and in the first five minutes our expectations are put aside. “Charlie’s Angels” is one of those... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1058923 Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:41:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6540-10622E6B-3A031A23-prod2?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-31AA-26F06B90-39FDBD09-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - Earlier this year, I called "The Way of the Gun" just about the coldest crime movie I'd ever seen. Had I seen Lars von Trier's feature debut "The Element of Crime" first, I never would have made such a silly statement. It makes... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1059621 Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:28:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-31AA-26F06B90-39FDBD09-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-4EE9-26EFBBCA-39FDBB47-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - Perhaps the most intriguing and frustrating question of recent years has been whether to treat all people--all races, sexes, and sexual orientations--as equals, or whether to stay true to traditions and heritage, and keep the differences between us... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1059623 Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:19:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-4EE9-26EFBBCA-39FDBB47-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-46DB-234C19E8-39F46A56-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - "Kwaidan" has been advertised as a Japanese horror anthology film, like the classic "Dead of Night" (1945), "Spirits of the Dead" (1968), "Creepshow" (1982), and many others. Viewers might be surprised to find that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1060954 Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:43:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-46DB-234C19E8-39F46A56-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3068-234BFA80-39F46A05-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - The moment Brian De Palma's "Sisters" (1973) starts, we know we're in for it. One of Bernard Herrmann's last and greatest scores thrusts at us over images of unborn children. This is a score that stops just short of physically reaching out and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1060955 Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:41:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3068-234BFA80-39F46A05-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-4F83-234B908A-39F468F6-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - I was prepared, going into Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," to dispute the Best Actress award given to Bjork at the Cannes film festival. But after just a few minutes, I was convinced that she had deserved the award after all. She had... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1060956 Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:39:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-4F83-234B908A-39F468F6-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-720C-234B49B5-39F46841-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" is a passionate movie bursting with ideas. But it's also a huge mess, lacking the discipline and order to streamline its various parts into a workable whole. Still and all, I wouldn't swap "Bamboozled" for ten... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1060958 Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:34:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-720C-234B49B5-39F46841-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-5633-234AFEBC-39F46781-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - "Pay It Forward" is an actor's movie. It's full of emoting, weeping, brooding, laughing, speech-giving, and throwing things. It's the kind of movie that gets sent to the top-notch actors of the day, the ones who have just won or been nominated... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1060959 Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:31:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-5633-234AFEBC-39F46781-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-142D-CA0AEFB-39E73B4F-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - I first saw Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece "Rashomon" (1950) back in the mid-80's when my English teacher Lee Gorsuch loaned me his personal VHS copy. So it's only fitting for me that Kurosawa's beautiful and funny last film,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1062833 Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:43:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-142D-CA0AEFB-39E73B4F-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6D51-CA073B6-39E73AB7-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - One of the great atrocities of the American cinema is 1964's "My Fair Lady," which I prefer not to blame on star Audrey Hepburn or director George Cukor. Their own personal styles did not fit that monstrosity of overspending and bad taste... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1062834 Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:40:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6D51-CA073B6-39E73AB7-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-EA6-CA0393F-39E73A21-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - "Billy Elliot" features an extraordinary performance by Jamie Bell as the title character who is the son of a poor English miner and wants to become a ballet dancer. At one point, a character refers to him as "our little Gene Kelly,"... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1062835 Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:38:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-EA6-CA0393F-39E73A21-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1CDB-C9FDFAD-39E7393C-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - It begins in an unbelievable cacophony; a tempest of noise. Those of us who like to read opening credits are distracted by the overwhelming sound of the waiting room. All these women, many blonde, most rich, and all Texans, are waiting to see one man:... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1062836 Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:35:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1CDB-C9FDFAD-39E7393C-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1C3D-1C2182D7-39E211DB-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - Despite the three other very good movie versions of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1990, 1996, and 2000), many world scholars still associate the quintessential film version with Laurence Olivier's 1948 version. It's almost as if Olivier were... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1063609 Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:44:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1C3D-1C2182D7-39E211DB-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2F33-1C212376-39E210E7-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - This grand epic from the 75-year-old Japanese master Akira Kurosawa is one of his finest achievements. Crafted from Shakespeare's "King Lear," it concerns an aged warlord who wishes to divide his kingdom up between his three sons (instead of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1063610 Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:42:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2F33-1C212376-39E210E7-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7BBA-1C20E62F-39E2104A-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - I have nothing against comedies where fate sticks out a foot to trip the hero and everything goes wrong. I do have something against comedies where the hero is so dumb and awkward that he causes everything that goes wrong. Unfortunately, "Meet the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1063612 Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:38:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7BBA-1C20E62F-39E2104A-prod3?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3ACA-56B3919-39D4C6C0-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - It's a familiar image. Two boxers, in a fit of exhaustion, fall against one another in a kind of professional embrace. In the new film "Girlfight," the image takes on a new resonance as one of the fighters whispers in the other one's ear,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1065532 Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:46:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3ACA-56B3919-39D4C6C0-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7D57-56AF46E-39D4C610-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - A friend once told me that he put on a tape of "Evil Dead II" during a wild party, just to show someone a particular scene. Before long the party came to a standstill and everyone was gathered around the TV watching the film. I didn't discount... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1065534 Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:41:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7D57-56AF46E-39D4C610-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7D66-56A75AD-39D4C4CC-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - Have you noticed how most comedies today are desperate? They stop just short of getting on their hands and knees and begging you to laugh and pleading with you to love them. I'm sure that if they could add a sitcom laugh track to tell us when to laugh,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1065536 Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:36:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7D66-56A75AD-39D4C4CC-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1BB8-1FBB14B-39CBFB11-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - OK, so “Woman on Top” isn't a very good movie. I know that. But I can't help myself. I had a good time. I enjoyed myself for several reasons. One, I could stare at the magnificent visage of Penelope Cruz for hours on end, and “Woman on Top” is only 90... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1066886 Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:38:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1BB8-1FBB14B-39CBFB11-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6D8-1FB82DF-39CBFA9B-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - I was too young to catch William Friedkin's “The Exorcist” when it first opened, but my parents owned a paperback copy of William Peter Blatty's novel. On the back cover was plastered a picture of the possessed Regan (played by Linda Blair) that gave me... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1066888 Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:35:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6D8-1FB82DF-39CBFA9B-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3737-1FB58EA-39CBFA2F-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - “Pola X” is the latest film by French genius Leos Carax, a most complicated and difficult filmmaker who, as far as I see it, exists in the wrong time period. Carax should have been making films back in the silent days, when his wild, mad images would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1066889 Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:33:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3737-1FB58EA-39CBFA2F-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-42A6-B56A6F6-39C2B71D-prod1?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - "Good Morning" was the first film I'd ever seen by the great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu, who is perhaps better known for his powerful "Tokyo Story" (1953). As a comedy, "Good Morning" doesn't affect us in quite the same... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~1068234 Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:57:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-42A6-B56A6F6-39C2B71D-prod1?linkin_id=8003929