Epinions Recent Reviews for joe5283

Being Charlie Kaufman

Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:35:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Four years ago, I was absolutely struck by a film called "One True Thing", which starred the magnificent Meryl Streep and Renee Zellweger, about an adult woman who is forced to move back into her childhood home to care for her cancer-stricken mother...

"Solaris" Hypothesis

Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:05:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - "There are no answers. Only choices."

This is one of the lines of dialogue spoken to Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) by Gibarian (Ulrich Tukur) inside the space station that is hovering near Solaris: a bright, purple-blue, spherical shape out in...

"Frida" Live, "Frida" Love, "Frida" Fly

Thu, 5 Dec 2002 04:44:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Ah, the "triumph of the human spirit": that age-old storyline that has maintained the utmost healthy pairs of legs to have outrun the artistic test of time. If you think about it, every story we read in books or watch on film carries this particular...

The Lean-n-Mean Breakdown on "Breakdown"

Mon, 2 Dec 2002 04:21:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - "You left the toilet seat up again..."

In many marriages, a wife who attempts to rid her husband of his careless actions has often said this statement. In 1997's "Breakdown", yuppie Jeff Taylor (Kurt Russell) gets into more trouble than he...

The Gift of "Panic" (Or Lack Thereof...)

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:06:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - "There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

This famous quote, which had lived as a mainstay at the forefront of human philosophy for numerous decades, taught us the lesson that fear was an absolutely self-destructive and, sometimes,...

The Confessions Of A Traumatized Mandrake

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:15:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Unless you've seen the film, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", or read the J.K. Rowling novel from which the film is adapted, you would most likely react with a blank stare if I asked you what a Screaming Mandrake was: the creepy, infant-like...

"Walking and Talking": Tougher Than It Sounds, Huh?

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:45:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Hey, I've got a question for you...

Remember that time you protruded from your mother's womb, kicking and screaming, shaking your tiny fragile fists in fright? No, probably not... Well, what about the time you courageously took on the...

"The Assassin" Opts For Suicide

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:16:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Boy, oh boy, as fate would have it, God granted me a free day today. What to do, what to do? Well, what I really desired to do was get in on the big fuss that was brewing over "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". But the thought of having to fend...

"Sex" Changes

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:29:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Change is good.

At least that's what writer/director/creator Darren Star seems to believe. If he didn't, his highly successful and critically-acclaimed HBO cable series "Sex and the City" most likely wouldn't have taken home the Emmy Award for...

How "Heaven" Took A Turn Through Hell

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:29:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Todd Haynes, writer-director of the "nuclear family" period piece, "Far From Heaven", must be an outlandishly courageous man, if not a flat-out masochist. It's unfortunate, really. Too bad the same cannot be said for his gift of foresight when playing...

The Hand That Rocks The Microphone

Sat, 9 Nov 2002 08:11:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - "The hand that rocks the mic owns the soul that soars for freedom." This personal quote is a varied take on an excerpt of dialogue from the 1992 Curtis Hanson thriller, "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle". The quote is an intentional tribute towards freedom...

"Friends" Is Family...

Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:06:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - WARNING: (This review has been written by a HUGE "Friends" fanatic. Chances are that it will be very long....)

Executive Producer/Creator Marta Kauffman has stated numerous times throughout the run of the "Friends" series that, "when we...

Left Out Of The Loop

Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:56:00 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Boy, as an avid movie junkie, there's nothing finer than being rewarded with the release of a brand spanking new, groundbreaking film to tantalize, revive, and extensively overfeed one's cinematic appetite.

Maybe that's why, in the dead cold...

Punch-Drunk Love: "Love" Conquers All

Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:55:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joe5283 - Many people out there seem to believe that Hollywood has already told every story there is to tell. If I were ever asked to compare P.T. Anderson's latest film contribution to a story that's already been told, I would probably say that one of the films...