Epinions Recent Reviews for kiarrith

A rather dull affair all around...

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 06:14:02 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - This movie limps its way through a badly written script without even the prop of interesting characters or acting...

Having been dragged to this movie {not a fan of sappy romances to begin with} I was at least hoping to be kept entertained by...

Wonderful Performances

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 05:58:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Definately worth watching, any day of the week.

I'll be perfectly blunt--I rented this only because I wanted to see an Angelina Jolie movie that I hadn't seen before. I did not know if it honestly would be that great quality of a flick, but i...

Wonderful foreign film!

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 05:37:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Many people turn up their noses at subtitled films--but here's one I'd suggest sitting down for!

My younger sister is a student of German and watched half of Run Lola Run in class. She was so curious to find out what happened in the second...

Most underrated album yet!

Sun, 30 Sep 2001 08:40:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Here is a classic example of an awesomely talented artist's debut album, ignored by the masses.

Gail is not a big name to the average person, but mention her to some top musician and they know exactly who you mean. She is extremely...

Laugh, Love, Cry, Repeat...

Sun, 30 Sep 2001 07:50:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Larger than life movie--Nicole and Ewan are smoking in this fabulous movie!

There will be people who hate this film, and people who love it. I do not think anyone will be able to straddle the fence here. It is truly a feat by Nicole...

Very Unconventional Vehicle for a Music Video

Sat, 3 Feb 2001 17:46:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Music genius [or what have you] David Bowie [real name: David Jones] has made a nice little jewel in this music video. It’s a must not only for collectors and serious fans but others as well. Instead of the usual 3 minutes music video, director Julien...

Great Family Movie!

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:30:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - This is a truly cute, timeless classical!

Hayley Mills stars as both twins in this adoreable film from 1961. When I was very young, my family loved this movie and watched it constantly. Recently, I watched it again, and found that it...

A Walk in Wolf Wood: Simple children's story

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:15:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - This is a great book about children for children...

Mary Stewart [author of many books, both for children and for adults, fantasy and otherwise] has a lovely story in A Walk in Wolf Wood. Its one of her little known books, perhaps...

Classically wonderful

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:52:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Finally! a classic worth reading!!

The acclaimed author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Black Arrow in 1888. It was written in not the language of his time, but the language of the setting he wished to portray. For me, this is...

delightful little book!

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:30:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - This truly wonderful book packs a punch in a minimum of pages! Ideal for readers both younger and older.

Robin McKinley [a tried and true writer of terrific fantasy] has written quite a jewel in The Hero and the Crown. Though she wrote...

The Green Lady of the woods...

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:09:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - An original re-telling of the ages-old Robin Hood story--with the Lady Marian as the main character!

Theresa Tomlinson wrote The Forestwife from a child-hood obsession with the tales of Robin Hood and the lovely Maid Marian--yet she...

rather drab look at cloning...

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:23:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - The newest Arnold movie, 6th Day is entertaining, but definately not as good as I was led to believe it would be.

I was taken to this movie by two die-hard fans of Arnold. They had raved about it for weeks, and convinced me to...

A Wild Read!

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:47:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Blood and Chocolate is a truly wild, hair-curling read!

By the highly-acclaimed author of the novel The Silver Kiss [also about an unlikely romance], this book is a refreshing look at life as a were-wolf. The main character, Vivian is a...

Wonderful family movie--give it a shot!

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 01:04:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - I just watched this movie last night with my uncle, mom, and sister--we had all seen it many times before, but we hadn't for years and years. It was so good! I had forgotten a lot about it, except of course for the short scene where the movie got its...

a must-see!

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:37:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - This movie did a very good job with the Marvel comics X-men. Not only did they make the best decison in casting Patrick Stewart as Professor X, but most of the casting was quite fitting.

The effects are well done and make everything seem very...

Delightful--Never grow up!

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:22:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - This movie intrigued me when I saw it as a preview, and I decided I wanted to go give it a shot. This is a young woman [I was raised on old movies] who normally tries to avoid as many modern movies as she can--though her boyfriend is always trying to...

disappointing...

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:00:56 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Patricia A. McKillip—-an award-winning fantasy author in Roxbury, New York—-wrote Winter Rose. This book is set in a small, rural, fictional village that was never named. The main character is a young girl named Rois [pronounced ‘rose,’ I take it because...

Not my favorite--but still a good book

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:41:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - The third novel in the Vlad Taltos series, a must-read for all fans.

Steven Brust's comments on this book are as follows:

"I finally realized (or admitted to myself) that I was writing a series, and I had to ask myself some hard...

Good, solid Vlad story

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:01:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - The second in the Vlad Taltos series, and a very nice one!

I personally enjoyed Yendi, though Steven Brust himself called it "My least favorite book." and said that it was just "a straight-ahead story with nothing much...

Delicious--Fantasy at its best!

Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:49:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Steven Brust has begun argueably one of the most original, entertaining series in fantasy!

Jhereg is the introductory book to Vlad Taltos, a human living in a Dragaeran-ruled world. Vlad's father tried to adapt and become...

Interesting piece...

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:53:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - A well-written book, I did enjoy reading it, at parts. It follows the bard Annice as she finds she is pregnant [because of some past history that gets explained, her brother the King made it treason for her to have a child] and then finds that the father...

When is Evil not truly Evil?

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:15:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - A light-hearted fantasy great for all ages!

This great movie was directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas, had the script written by Terry Jones [of Monty Python], and had David Bowie in a starring role! That recipe for success was...

Fantasy at its best!

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 18:44:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - A classically haunting and beautiful fantasy movie--without the hackneyed stereotypes!

In this 1980s film [we know that by the cheesy, out of place modern music played throughout the whole thing] we have a classical tale of...

Thrilling movie!

Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:53:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - Geena Davis is absolutely convincing in this awesome role!

My elder brother reccommended this movie, and after hearing about it I ran to rent it--I have a thing for assassins.

An old plot--Dangerous Person gets Amnesia, Bad Guys...

good book

Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:35:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kiarrith - In 1998, Elizabeth A. Lynn wrote Dragon’s Winter. It is set in the fictional land Ippa whose ruler is always a Dragon shapeshifter--referred to by all as Dragon. The main character is Karadur Atani—-the eldest twin son born to the latest Dragon king...