© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-jsherry Recent reviews written by member jsherry en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_240154611332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - Ship of Destiny is the concluding volume in Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders Trilogy. Here Hobb brings together the disparate storylines she has been weaving together in the previous two volumes. Three generations of Vestrit women are at the center of this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~240154611332 Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:02:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_240154611332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_219092192900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - Somehow "The Liveship Traders" just got better. Robin Hobb, the author of the "Farseer" trilogy and "Ship of Magic", has written a book that builds upon the story began in "Ship of Magic" and expands it far enough that already I have to consider "The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~219092192900 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:44:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_219092192900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_218990415492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - What story is there left to tell exactly? Why does the 1942 Disney classic “Bambi” need a sequel? Truly, no sequel is needed since “Bambi” is a true classic and is one of the great animated movies in film history. At the end of “Bambi” Bambi himself... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~218990415492 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:16:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_218990415492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_217324293764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - How exactly do you make a movie musical based on a theatrical musical based on a movie about making a musical? Very carefully. Susan Stohman directs this adaption of the Broadway musical which she also directed and she retains some of the major cast from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~217324293764 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:22:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_217324293764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216360652420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - Matthew Stover is the latest author (after Terry Brooks and R.A. Salvatore) to be given a chance to adapt one of the Star Wars films to a novel. Stover is no novice to the Star Wars universe, having written the excellent prequel novel "Shatterpoint" and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216360652420 Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:41:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216360652420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216299376260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - Dan Simmons' "Ilium" is an impressive, complicated epic of a science fiction novel. I didn't know what to think when I first heard about "Ilium". The way it was described to me was that "Ilium" is a science fiction telling of Homer's "The Iliad" and it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216299376260 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:01:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216299376260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216299245188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "The Interpreter", directed by Sydney Pollack, is a very smart political thriller. Critics have called it an "old fashioned" movie and that it is an "old school" political thriller in the vein of a "Manchurian Candidate". This is meant as a compliment... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216299245188 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:58:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216299245188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216298983044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - Here is the setting: An idealistic young teacher arrives at a well respected private school with the intention of making a difference in the lives and education of the students. This teacher soon runs up against a tradition bound administration as well... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216298983044 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:55:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216298983044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216298000004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - I like Milla Jovovich as a superhero. Her breakout role in "The Fifth Element" was all that was needed to sell me on her. She was fine in the first "Resident Evil", which was better than perhaps it was given credit for. But in "Resident Evil:... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216298000004 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:50:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216298000004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216297803396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "Being Julia" is really only notable as a film because it is the movie which garnered Annette Bening an Oscar nominee to once again pit her against Hilary Swank in the category of Best Actress in something of a rematch of the 1999 Academy Awards when... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216297803396 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:46:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216297803396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216296558212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "Elantris" is the debut novel from Brandon Sanderson. Blurbs on the cover from Orson Scott Card and David Farland say this book is "the finest novel of fantasy to be written in many years" and "one of the finest debuts I've seen in years." When I read a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216296558212 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:29:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216296558212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216296230532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "Solo Command" is the seventh volume in the X-Wing series and is the concluding book of Aaron Allston's trilogy about exploits of the Wraith Squadron founded by Wedge Antilles. To give a quick refresher, Wraith Squadron was formed because Wedge's Rogue... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216296230532 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:25:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216296230532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216244850308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "The Family Trade" is the first volume in a new series by Charles Stross called "The Merchant Princes." I would assume this series is going to be a trilogy, but I could not find this stated. In theory, the type of world Stross created would allow for as... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216244850308 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:07:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216244850308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216244588164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - Andrew Exum enlisted in the Army thinking that military service would be a good way to pay for his education at the University of Pennsylvania as well as serve his country in peacetime. He thought that he would likely serve in peacekeeping duties in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216244588164 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:03:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216244588164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216244063876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "Gardens of the Moon" is the first book in a proposed ten volume series titled "The Malazan Book of the Fallen". To call this an epic fantasy would not do justice to the potential scope of this book and series. Steven Erikson has most often been compared... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216244063876 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:59:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216244063876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216243801732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "The Courtship of Princess Leia" holds an interesting place in the Star Wars timeline. Chronologically it fits after the conclusion of the Wraith Squadron trilogy and is shortly before the Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy. But it was written after the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216243801732 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:56:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216243801732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216243408516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - I hate to be a book snob when reviewing a movie, but when the title of the movie is "I, Robot" and is said to be "inspired by" the classic science fiction collection by Isaac Asimov, one would have a reasonable assumption that the movie would bear some... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216243408516 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:53:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216243408516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216243342980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "Tatooine Ghost" is a Post "Return of the Jedi" Star Wars novel set between Dave Wolverton's "The Courtship of Princess Leia" and Timothy Zahn's "Thrawn Trilogy". It picks up the story not long after Wolverton's novel. Han Solo and Leia Organa are newly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216243342980 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:51:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216243342980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216242949764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - You don't go into theatre to see "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" and expect to see a modern classic of American Film. You go into a theatre to see the new "Deuce Bigalow" movie to see a dumb movie that may very well be funny. After all, Adam Sandler's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216242949764 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:48:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216242949764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216242687620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - I first read Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir "Prozac Nation" when I was in college and I was transfixed. The force of Wurtzel's personality and the passion in which she wrote honestly jumped off the page as she described her fight with depression and how she... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216242687620 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:46:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216242687620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216222764676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - Before I watched "Vera Drake" I had no question in my mind that Hilary Swank was the Best Actress of last year for "Million Dollar Baby". No question. Halfway through "Vera Drake", I wasn't so sure anymore. To really break down "Vera Drake" into its... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216222764676 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:14:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216222764676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216218373764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "Isard's Revenge" picks up the action smack in the middle of a big space battle against the forces of the Grand Admiral Thrawn. Those who have read Timothy Zhan's "The Last Command" will be very familiar with this space battle as this is the battle which... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216218373764 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:10:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216218373764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216218111620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - A film by Robert Zemeckis "The Polar Express" is based on a 29 page award winning children's book by Chris Van Allsburg. Robert Zemeckis obviously had to expand Van Allsburg's book, but he still begins with the first line of the book and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216218111620 Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:05:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216218111620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216005054084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - Often billed as a football comedy, I'm not sure The Longest Yard really is one. Starring a young Burt Reynolds, The Longest Yard is, simply, a good movie. Reynolds is Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, a former NFL star quarterback who has been out of the game for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216005054084 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:16:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216005054084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_216004791940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsherry - "Peacemaker" is the debut novel by author Dan Ronco. Ronco has experience in the software industry so it is with personal knowledge and experience that he crafts the story of artificial intelligence and the future of the technology industry. Ronco... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216004791940 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:13:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_216004791940?linkin_id=8003929