Epinions Recent Reviews for juliette

A Boring Stupid Mess

Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:49:53 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Warning! The first half of this film is excruciatingly boring and stupid, but then the puns and slapstick humor kick into gear, indicating that it is supposed to be a "funny" movie, and it becomes just painful instead.

So what exactly...

I May Well Be a Perv, but Not Because I Saw This Film

Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:21:17 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Pornography: n. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. -Webster's

The word pornography crops up quite a bit in discussions of French filmmaker...

A Blast From the Past (Gay Pride W/O)

Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:33:51 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - What can you say about a 1977 Canadian cult film featuring a hairdresser who aspires to be a female impersonator, his pregnant schizophrenic roommate, a best friend obsessed with actress Karen Black, and a cab driver/manager who turns tricks between...

Wings of Desire meets The Twilight Zone

Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:11:51 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - How is it possible that the winner of the Australian Film Institute's award for Best Film of 1988, The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey should also be called, by at least one acquaintance of mine, "The worst movie I have ever seen?"

Let's...

I'm Using My Facelift Money to Go to Machu Picchu -- No Really!

Mon, 21 May 2001 16:24:03 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - The fully ripe tomato is not a young pink hard-bodied tomato. It has been on the vine for a while, kissed by many suns and washed by many rains, but handled with respect, this saucy creature goes a long way.

Several years ago, my sister...

Nancy Drew Is All Tied Up Right Now...

Fri, 4 May 2001 17:33:10 GMT
rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Nora Tibbs seems to have it all: she is beautiful, chic, a newspaper reporter happily in love with "the world's nicest guy." Then her younger sister Franny is found brutally murdered, naked, bound with duct tape, with strange symbols carved into her...

Roadiem's Rule #1: Always Sleep With Your Mechanic

Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:01:32 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - This review is part of a write-off in memory of epinionator roadiem, also known as Mike Lambert. I learned a lot from Mike in the short time I knew him: about perseverance, social decency, the importance of family, and of course, many things...

Let Go of My Frozen Waffle-like Object

Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:46:24 GMT
rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - This is not one of my usual smart-alecky book or movie reviews, instead think of it as more of a public service announcement.

As my faithful, long-time readers may recall, I have the Lexus of all toasters at my house. It's a gem, but then as...

The Secret Pastime of the Homeless: Water-skiing!

Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:29:30 GMT
rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Things must be very, very different in Paris compared to where I live. True, it is an ancient city where they speak another language, but that isn't what I mean.

In the several U.S. cities where I have encountered or observed homeless...

The Universe in a Crystal of Snow

Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:03:58 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - The snowflake is icily regular, but it is also chaotic; it is the seal of Abel and the mark of Cain, a dactylogram of the eternal conflict between order and disorder that rages at the heart of creation. -Chet Raymo

To a physicist like...

The Dork of Cork

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:05:53 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - So did you hear the one about the Irish dwarf astronomer? No, not the joke, the movie. Based on Chet Raymo's novel, The Dork of Cork, the 1995 film Frankie Starlight is the story of Frank Bois, who does happen to be Irish, a dwarf, and an...

Simply Annoying?

Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:43:05 GMT
rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Sell the boat but keep the dog. These are just two of the 100 ways that author Elaine St. James suggests we may simplify our lives.

Obviously, not having a boat will simplify one's life, but how does owning a dog make life any less...

The Devil's Rain: McHale vs. Capt'n Kirk

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:31:24 GMT
rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - You know you are in trouble when the descriptive blurb on the back of a video box is replete with punctuation errors and misspellings. Especially if the enclosed video is not even a foreign film. For me, the pain of reading the cover of 1975 horror flick...

Why THE SIMPSONS Flopped in Japan

Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:13:09 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Consider a cartoon strip as haiku: four panels only, a clean spare drawing style, minimalist text.

A Japanese woman sees three teenage boys walking past their elderly teacher without showing the proper respect. "Bow!" she...

Stay Hungry - Big Stars Before Plastic Surgery!

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:20:38 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Okay, quick trivia quiz: in what movie did all of the following appear: Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Englund, Jeff Bridges, Scatman Crothers, and Ed Begley Jr?

Why, that would have to be the little-known, but well-loved...

Get a Grip on Evolution -- It Feels Gooood!

Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:15:58 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Note: If you are a believer in what is called "Creationism," please do not send me vituperative emails, or anonymous NR's. This review is not about philosophy or religion; it is about a book.

(Charles Darwin sat on his...

Hotel Kalifornia: We are all just prisoners here

Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:36:03 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Two short notes: I want to make it clear that this is a friendly sort of Write-Off because juliette would be a fool to take on writers like Zentropajk and hirohito99 in a competitive-type one (and she is no fool, or so she likes to...

A Summons to Memphis: a River of Images

Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:10:06 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - You know how recounting the plot of some books is like the telling of a dream?

"First there were these guys, see, and they were chasing this other guy through Poland, or was it Russia? Anyway, after that there was a train wreck, and the...

Joe - This Book Stinks and I Love It!

Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:08:49 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - One of the ways I know that an author is really going to deliver the goods is when I can smell the story he or she is telling.

In Larry Brown's Joe, just about every thing and every body stinks like you wouldn't believe. Set in what...

A Staggering Genius can be Heartbreaking Work

Thu, 11 May 2000 17:29:17 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Copernicus was wrong: Earth and all the planets actually, as it turns out, revolve around Dave Eggers.

Now, let me warn you, this review is far longer than most of mine, so if you want to just skip ahead to about mid-way, that's when I get...

Ameritech SpeedPath ADSL: I almost got to "fly"

Mon, 1 May 2000 17:01:23 GMT
rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Ordinarily I wouldn't write an opinion about a single bad experience, but since several people I know have had the exact same bad experience, I am going to break my own rule.

I am online 9 hours a day at work and 3 hours each night at...

Chef's Choice Diamond Hone 110 Knife Sharpener: a real gem

Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:33:33 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Butchers know that dull knives are the most dangerous. As a knife becomes dull, and more force is needed to wield it, control is lessened and the results can be ugly and painful.

Since the "rustable" carbon-steel knives that...

Rhapsody in August : No Swords, No Screams

Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:46:05 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - I admit it. I got a little scared when I saw Richard Gere's name in the opening credits of Rhapsody in August, Akira Kurosawa's final film released in the U.S. (1992)

Richard Gere? Oh, please!

But then the little angel on...

Sure, it's a Cuisinart Custom Control Toaster, but $100?!?

Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:05:58 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - Yep, and worth every penny. (Actually we got it on sale for $80, but still...)

This is the third toaster I have owned and, I assume, the last. The main feature I originally sought, and which this model has in spades, is something I call The...

Blood Meridian -- If you have the GUTS!

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:34:49 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author juliette - It is said that when you pitch a Hollywood project, you get 20 words or less. Okay, then.

Blood Meridian is "Reservoir Dogs meets True Grit, with Christopher Walken in the John Wayne role, and Jesse Ventura as his...