Epinions Recent Reviews for joller

Sex, Droogs, and Rock 'n Roll

Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:05:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - What’s it going to be then, eh?

Alex and his droogs - Dim, Pete, and Georgie - are sitting in the Korova milkbar, drinking milk plus and waiting for the evening to unfold. They’re wearing white, the colour of purity, the colour of heavenly...

Talk to Me, Baby

Sat, 1 Jul 2000 09:46:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author joller - You would think, by now, that the dentists of this world would have figured the whole thing out. It is not the prospect of root-canal treatment that quickens your pulsebeat and tightens the knot in your chest.

It is not the finely-pitched whine of...

Bonnie & Clyde Meets Reservoir Dogs

Sat, 1 Jul 2000 09:28:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - Two things a man needs to get by in this world: Love and a .45.

That’s the code that drives and sustains Watty Watts as he cruises the desert highways with his sugarblonde baby at his side.

His love for Starlene, with her ragged...

What's a Mook?

Sat, 1 Jul 2000 09:17:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - “Mook?” The guy in the pool-hall can’t believe his ears. He’s never been so insulted in his life.

“I’m a Mook? What’s a Mook? YOU CAN’T CALL ME A MOOK!”

Blam. A fist connects with his face, and the joint erupts in a flurry of punches and kicks...

Ode to an iMac

Sat, 17 Jun 2000 05:46:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - Blueberry iMac, Apple of my Eye, I turn you on and I bid you “hi”. I see right through to your inner core, your sheer transparency I adore.

You’re whisper-quiet, you have no fan - apart from me and the rest of the clan. Which of your qualities...

A Western Epiphany

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:05:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - "That'll be the day." Uttering the line that would later be turned into a classic of Tex-Mex pop by Buddy Holly, John Wayne pours scorn on the notion that he might abandon the obsessive quest that drives him in John Ford's masterful Western,...

You Can't Dust For Vomit

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:58:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - "Rock 'n Roll! Rock 'n Roll! Rock 'n Roll!" Pumping their fists in the air, hoisting guitars and clicking drumsticks, the members of England's loudest rock band spill out of their dressing-room and follow the roar of the crowd.

In...

Apocalypse Wow!

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:51:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - As every Disney-addicted kid knows only too well, there is a dark side to the master's fables of sweetness and light. The apple dripping poison in Snow White, the monster whale crashing through the ocean in Pinocchio, the yellow-eyed hunting dogs lunging...

It Really Drives You Insa-a-a-ane

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:43:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - It's astounding. Time is fleeting. Fashions change, seasons come and go, fickle fame and fortune fade beneath the incoming tide of popular taste. And yet, somewhere out there in the darkness, someone is preparing to jump to the left, step to the right,...

A Monsterpiece of a Monster Movie

Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:58:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - Perfection, Nevada. Population: 14. Like the name says, it's a quiet, contented little town in the dead centre of nowhere. The kind of place where nothing ever goes wrong, because nothing ever happens.

The General Dealer trades in cold beer, postage...

See it Over and Over and Over Again

Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:53:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - It is February 2 in the one-groundhog town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and Bill Murray, sitting at the bar, is trying to drown his misery in a multiple Jack Daniel's. But this is the kind of misery that claws its way back to the surface, over and over...

You're not Paranoid. They really are here!

Sun, 12 Mar 2000 07:29:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - “They’re here!” yells the man in the rumpled suit, eyes wide with fear, hair plastered to his forehead with sweat, as he stumbles into the traffic on a bustling California freeway. Of course, no-one believes him. The guy’s nuts, or drunk, or just plain...

Hey! You hit my hair!

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:39:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - Red shoes shining, black flares swirling, paint can swinging in his hand, Tony Manero cruises down a Brooklyn sidewalk in the Saturday morning rush-hour. (You can tell by the way he uses his walk, he’s a woman’s man, no time to talk).

He pauses to...

Terror at 24 frames per second

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:36:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - Let’s begin with a simple definition. A motion picture is a series of static images, cast onto celluloid at 24 frames per second. It is a trick of the light, an illusion, an act of alchemy designed to illuminate or entertain. What you see up there on the...

Movie of the Millennium

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:34:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - We’ve come a long way, baby. Four million years ago, give or take a couple of millennia, a strange creature rose to its feet on the African savannah, and hurled a thighbone into the sky with a grand gesture of defiance and self-discovery.

The...

Man, I Love This Movie

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 06:55:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - Dazed and confused. To anyone who grew up in the Seventies - and I plead guilty - the words are guaranteed to strike a chord, not only of heavy metal guitar feedback, but of sweet nostalgia for those carefree days of innocence, exuberance, and wonder...

Often Imitated, Never Replicated

Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:08:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - Los Angeles, 2019. Night-time. It’s raining. Giant fingers of industrial flame whoosh into the coal-black sky, and a jet-copter drifts silently in a halo of fog. On streets awash with reflections of neon, humanity throngs.

Punks, police, scavengers,...

Maximum Minidisc!

Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:23:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author joller - I'm a Sony nut. Always have been, always will be, whether you're talking about a TV or a camcorder or a CD player or just anything else digital or electronic.

I love the Sony design, the functionality, the cutting-edge product range, the overall...