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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_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 http://www.epinions.com/content_469232684676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - At the onset of Carlos Reygadas' Japón, a nighttime view of congested Mexico City highway traffic fills the screen, and it pretty much gets across what’s intended: that it's something most people would rather avoid. We're then... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469232684676 Mon, 4 May 2009 10:11:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469232684676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468159598212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - You'd think the sensational James Woods as a manic Los Angeles cop tracking a cunning serial killer of beautiful women in a thriller adapted from a novel by L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy would result in a simply electrifying entertainment... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468159598212 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:08:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468159598212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_467108007556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The Item has the distinction of being the first digitally-shot film ever to debut at the much-revered Sundance Film Festival, a fact that the writer/director/star behind it, Dan Clark, is more than proud to attest to, as if its mere acceptance... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~467108007556 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:57:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_467108007556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466369089156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - The political thriller The Kidnapping of the President is quite the cinematic anomaly in that it's possessive of a whoppingly implausible story premise yet possesses reasonably plausible story facets that manage to lend it a surprising degree of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466369089156 Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:28:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466369089156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465478651524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - In light of being extremely disappointed by recent crappy array of horror films, I was quite craving an effective slasher flick that needn't be Shakespearean in context yet merely competent at delivering the rudimentary goods of this particular... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465478651524 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:40:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465478651524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464592998020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - If a director is saddled with a very low budget for a horror film that involves ghosts and demons, then, granted that the best of special effects aren't going to be afforded him, the best course of action is to insinuate and suggest much of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464592998020 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:56:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464592998020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463100808836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Creepshow 2, the sequel to George A. Romero’s groundbreaking 1982 original, is distressingly lame. You go into it wanting nothing more than a scary good time, and end up getting as much a cinematic lemon as could possibly be drawn up by... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463100808836 Sat, 7 Mar 2009 18:50:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463100808836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462421397124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - At the beginning of Tobe Hooper's abysmal The Funhouse, a pretty eighteen-year-old woman undresses in the bathroom and steps into the shower, and this is intercut with a point-of-view shot of someone in the next room taking a knife out of a rack... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462421397124 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:14:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462421397124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462327746180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - It's rather difficult to assess whether Kill Switch is Steven Seagal's worst direct-to-video action flick since so many of them are of the bottom-of-the-barrel variety, but, upon reflection, they weren't quite as cringe-inducing as his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462327746180 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:53:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462327746180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462227541636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Terror on Tape, a compilation of low-budget horror movies, directed by Robert Worms, is a vast improvement over Andrew J. Kuehn's dreary Terror in the Aisles, which was also a horror-movie compilation but of bigger-budgeted ones that was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462227541636 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:18:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462227541636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462114164356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Richard Pryor is in agreeable form in the otherwise-forgettable medical comedy Critical Condition. Playing dubiously-respectable businessman Kevin Lenahan, whose rancid ideas for real-estate projects range from an offshore shopping mall to a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462114164356 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:21:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462114164356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462015467140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Though he's been nominated for two Oscars, Will Smith is still more of a movie star than an actor, an entertainer than a dramatic interpreter, as his newest film, Seven Pounds, more than demonstrates. As a guilt-ridden I.R.S. agent unselfishly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462015467140 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:24:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462015467140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461912575620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - A rarely-better Burt Reynolds plays Richard Malone, a recently-retired CIA agent aimlessly driving his prized '69 Mustang cross country in search of tranquility (his former speciality was assassinations for Uncle Sam, until his trigger finger and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461912575620 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:13:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461912575620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461810142852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Co-writer/director John Carpenter's 1981 Escape From New York had both snap and style. This remake, again co-written and directed by Carpenter, has none of the former and only a smidgen of the latter. In fact, it's a largely joyless affair, one... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461810142852 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:38:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461810142852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461688770180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - You'd think a story line involving a five-hundred-year-old monster systematically slaughtering WWII German soldiers in a spooky Romanian castle in 1941 would make for an agreeable entertainment, but writer/director Michael Mann's The Keep, adapted... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461688770180 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:24:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461688770180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460904828548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Friday the 13th is an unimpressive production that nevertheless gets the job done. No one would ever mistake it for high art, yet considering its quite-modest aspirations, it fulfills its obligations more often than not. The name of the game here... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460904828548 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:28:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460904828548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460585995908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - It's the Spring of '76 in the small Maine town of Tarker's Mills, and a most disagreeable fiend of the Canis lupus variety is wreaking considerable havoc upon the townsfolk. First, a drunken railroad worker finds himself on the unpleasant receiving end... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460585995908 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:06:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460585995908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460072914564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Until 1992's Under Siege, the black-belt aikido action star Steven Seagal's previous films -- Above the Law, Hard to Kill (both mediocre), Marked for Death, and Out for Justice (both pleasing) -- lacked memorable... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460072914564 Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:25:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460072914564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458916466308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - With a semi-saving grace in the form of some occasionally well-milked humor, the slasher flick Graduation Day manages to botch things so badly in the gore-and-suspense department that director Herb Freed should have been subject to a citizen's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458916466308 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:20:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458916466308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458191507076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jsommersby - Terror Tract, which takes a broadly dark look at small-town Americana, makes for good fun. The film opens with an American Beauty--like crane shot of a seemingly docile suburban neighborhood; but, like David Lynch's Blue Velvet, the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458191507076 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:13:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458191507076?linkin_id=8003929