© 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-jsommersby Recent reviews written by member jsommersby en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_490819128964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The made-for-Showtime horror anthology Body Bags is far from breathtaking stuff, but for those hungering even for some semi-enjoyable stuff of this genre it’s perfectly passable. Maestro filmmaker John Carpenter is our guide: He amusingly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490819128964 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:05:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490819128964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490701753988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - In the middling serial-killer thriller Sacrifice, the talented Michael Madsen disappointingly gives another of his run-of-the-mill, lazy performances that hasn’t so much as a whisper of either effort or ingenuity. After finally breaking... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490701753988 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:46:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490701753988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490465365636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - I can’t say that the psychological thriller Jagged Edge is ever boring anywhere in its entirety, but it’s far from intelligent stuff and hampered by a faulty screenplay possessive of many logic loopholes that seriously mar its... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490465365636 Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:01:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490465365636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490133294724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Written and directed by Penelope Spheeris, the ultra-low-budget Suburbia pretends to explore its central subject -- that being the ‘80s punk-rock crowd of displaced teenagers with terrible home lives holed up in a dilapidated abandoned house... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490133294724 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:59:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490133294724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489897168516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The so-called comedy Labor Pains is such unredeemable, IQ-insulting garbage that I can’t imagine even the few remaining die-hard Lindsay Lohan fans out there even remotely tolerating it. For a sometimes-appealing but limited actress who... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489897168516 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:54:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489897168516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489137999492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - In the sweet, spirited, endearing high-school comedy Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox is indelibly appealing as Scott Howard, a seventeen-year-old who's tired of being "average" in the eyes of his peers. Son of a widowed hardware-store-owner father, best... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489137999492 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:03:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489137999492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487063850628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Despite its shortcomings, Vanilla Sky emerges as a worthwhile entertainment, the risky type almost guaranteed to turn off the masses and win over only a few. Essentially, it functions as another one of those morality plays where a materialistic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487063850628 Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:17:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487063850628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486072946308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Unlike most of Zalman King's soft-core sex flicks (the Red Shoe Diaries series; Wild Orchid) Vivid (re-titled Luscious for home video) is solid filmmaking, with an interesting story and three-dimensional characters. I know, I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486072946308 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:11:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486072946308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484977249924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Considering the expensive non-coupon-applied pies of Domino's, Pizza Hut and Pizza Inn, the underdog franchise Pizza Patron makes for an alternative just as long as one realizes that with this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484977249924 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:11:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484977249924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483744910980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - If you're depressed and looking for something in the brain-dead garbage department to send you even further into a mental abyss, look no further than writer/director Mark Norberg's The Heat Chamber. Shot on the cheap for just under a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483744910980 Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:01:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483744910980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483287928452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The Sum of All Fears doesn’t have enough going for it in the way of imaginative writing, directing, and acting to make it anything worthy of high praise, yet it isn’t bad, either. It’s passable entertainment that’s neither... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483287928452 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:10:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483287928452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482202979972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The superfluous Blood Simple is certainly a visual feast for the eyes -- set in a mostly blue-collar Texas town mostly at night where the main hangout seems to be a country-western bar, the colorful neon signs are so garishly lurid they’re... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482202979972 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:39:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482202979972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_481914621572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - If one is willing to shell out a fair amount of moola for a laptop computer, then one, it reasons, should also be willing to do the same for the carrying case that will be housing it while being transported, yes? The main question that arises is whether... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~481914621572 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:01:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_481914621572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_481254674052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Poor Sylvester Stallone. After his box-office stamina started to considerably wean after his back-to-back 1993 successes Cliffhanger (passable) and Demolition Man (extraordinary), he was reduced to having his serial-killer thriller Eye... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~481254674052 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:52:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_481254674052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480510316164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The remake of George A. Romero's 1978 masterpiece Dawn of the Dead, which involved a group of four humans taking refuge inside a huge shopping mall from a horde of flesh-eating zombies and still boasts the greatest opening sequence of all-time,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480510316164 Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:07:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480510316164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_479446666884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The best thing one can say about John McTiernan's Basic is that it's better than John McTiernan's Rollerball. Of course, being that Rollerball was a thoroughly incompetent cinematic turkey, the fact that Basic is superior to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~479446666884 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:24:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_479446666884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_478746939012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - For those unwilling to unload a good ten dollars on an overpriced Italian pie at Pizza Hut, and if you're out and about and don't feel like going home and plopping a cost-saving pre-made one into the oven (the SureFine brand offers damn... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~478746939012 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:46:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_478746939012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477982396036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The Polaroid PDV-0700 Portable DVD Player isn't necessarily the greatest thing since the all-you-can-eat-fajitas special at The Wild Turkey in Dallas (shameless plug, I know), but for its acceptable $149.99 price tag, it succeeds in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477982396036 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:04:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477982396036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477468266116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Kurt Russell's galvanizing performance as a corrupt Los Angeles policeman is the only reason to get involved in the substandard crime drama Dark Blue. It's based on a short story by best-selling author James Ellroy, whose novel L.A... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477468266116 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:35:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477468266116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476572716676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Johnny Depp's wry, witty, winning performance is the only real reason to get involved in the maddeningly uninvolving psychological thriller Secret Window. Depp plays Mort Rainey, a best-selling novelist who's experiencing quite the case of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476572716676 Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:38:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476572716676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475406962308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - While The Mean Season isn't perfect (it has a couple of major flaws), it's still an effective and commendable piece of work -- a film that, while not totally honest in following through on the intriguing issues it raises, manages to unnerve and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475406962308 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:16:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475406962308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474391416452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Stephen Gaghan's Abandon is a failure, yet it's such an intriguing and respectable one that I find myself a bit disheartened at having to give it a non-recommendation. As it is, the film is mostly interesting yet not compulsively so, moderately... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474391416452 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:10:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474391416452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473389502084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Collateral Damage has next to nothing working in its dubious favor -- that is, except for a single redeeming factor: Francesa Neri's sexy, star-making turn as the wife of a renowned Colombian terrorist responsible for the deaths of the hero's (the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473389502084 Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:52:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473389502084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471624158852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Michael J. Fox gives a very fine, disciplined performance as Joe Rasnick, a Cleveland blue-collar worker trying to keep both his family and small-time band together in writer/director Paul Schrader's Light of Day. Joe isn't the kind of guy who's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471624158852 Mon, 25 May 2009 14:26:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471624158852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470366391940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Blue-collar worker Eddie Marino is a Brooklyn family man and homeowner just trying to get by. He's a mechanic who drives the same beat-up gray van to work every day and puts in a good day's week for good-but-not-great pay; he's having to put in more... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470366391940 Thu, 14 May 2009 10:12:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470366391940?linkin_id=8003929