© 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-kknox0616 Recent reviews written by member kknox0616 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_210561764996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - I've often been of the mindset that, for an artist to retrace his or her steps and revert to their old ways is a bit of a waste of their talent. I mean, isn't it better for them to mature and grow as an artist, instead of just rehashing "the good ol'... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~210561764996 Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:31:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_210561764996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_210436460164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - With her heart fully unbroken (but not so healed that she’s given up on her trademark tales of woe), Toni Braxton returns with her most stellar set of smooth jams yet. Working with a who’s who of up-and-coming writers and producers (Scott Storch, the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~210436460164 Sun, 6 Nov 2005 18:33:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_210436460164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_210435870340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - OK, so, tonight I got to go to a press screening for Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. I've been looking forward to this movie for quite a while now, ever since I first read that it was going to be made a couple years ago. Last October, I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~210435870340 Sun, 6 Nov 2005 18:26:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_210435870340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_169576205956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - I'm one of those music fans who is devoutly loyal to the artists that I follow. I'm not one of those casual music fans who just picks up the "popular" record by a certain artist only to lose track of their careers long after the buzz from their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~169576205956 Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:09:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_169576205956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_169041956484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - (NOTE: This review originally appeared in an alternate form in the Los Angeles gay and lesbian publication, Frontiers. All rights held solely by the author.) One of my favorite things to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon is head down to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~169041956484 Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:12:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_169041956484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_168905772676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - As a freelance entertainment journalist, I frequently bemoan the fact that I am consistently short on change. I can barely keep $50 in my bank account, and often run into financial woes that cause more stress than I ought to have in my life at 34. One of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~168905772676 Sun, 9 Jan 2005 00:50:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_168905772676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_167868075652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - What can you say about Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy that hasn't already been said at one time or another? It is perhaps--as many have asserted--the greatest realization of movie-making in the history of cinema--not just for the scope... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167868075652 Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:15:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167868075652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_167586664068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - As a struggling writer in Los Angeles, I've taken a lot of freelance jobs. One of those jobs was reading scripts and books for a top talent agency in Beverly Hills, and I was often given some pretty heinous scripts to synopsize. (I'm telling you: you... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167586664068 Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:05:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167586664068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_167472434820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - The 1980's were a great time for music. Though a lot of people dismiss the era as one of excessive... well, excess, the '80s represented a time of uninhibited experimentation, progressive instrumentation, and musical expression that remains unrivaled to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167472434820 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:03:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167472434820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_167467454084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - (NOTE: The following review appeared in an alternate form in the Los Angeles gay and lesbian publication, Frontiers. All rights held solely by the author.) For all that punk music has brought to us in terms of its influence (a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167467454084 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:32:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167467454084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_167287950980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - (NOTE: The following review originally appeared in the Los Angeles gay and lesbian publication Frontiers. All rights belong solely to the author.) In Black Shapes in a Darkened Room, Marshall Moore's eerily breathtaking... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167287950980 Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:55:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167287950980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_167275564676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - (NOTE: This review originally appeared in a shorter, alternate form in the Los Angeles gay and lesbian publication Frontiers. All rights held solely by the author.) Oh, youth: that wonderful, absolutely horrible battleground of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167275564676 Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:55:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167275564676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_166769823364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - (NOTE: This review originally appeared in an alternate form in the gay and lesbian biweekly magazine Frontiers. All rights solely held by the author.) Though not exactly a "queercore" band (they were actually born out of the ashes of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~166769823364 Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:34:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_166769823364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_166766546564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - If you've ever done something wrong--like really, terribly wrong--then you know what having committed such an offense can do to the soul. When I was a teenager, going through a particularly debilitating period of rebelliousness exacerbated by the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~166766546564 Sat, 25 Dec 2004 00:28:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_166766546564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_166759861892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - Having captured the attention of a rabid fanbase and many critics with a steady progression of self-produced records, independent-minded record label mogul/singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco went from little-known coffeehouse folksinger to devotionally... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~166759861892 Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:23:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_166759861892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_166533369476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - If the '80s taught us anything about the arts, it was that excess could often be used in uniquely imaginative ways to present 'spectacle' as 'art,' and vice versa. Take a garish nightmare like Terry Gilliam's Brazil, for instance, and pump it full... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~166533369476 Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:56:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_166533369476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_165491543684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - If one didn't know any better, and still thought that director Tim Burton had not sidelined his stellar track record with his unmitigatingly awful Planet of the Apes remake, one might think that the director's career was alive and well in Brad... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~165491543684 Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:05:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_165491543684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_164254944900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - [NOTE: As I have excerpted snippets of dialogue from this movie to demonstrate certain points in my critique, this review contains language that may be considered offensive to some.] As I was walking out of a showing of Mike Nichols' ruthlessly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~164254944900 Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:28:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_164254944900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_163653717636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - John Mellencamp hasn't been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and it's an oversight of the most glaring kind. For nearly three decades, this "smalltown boy" has been writing and recording the kind of rich, vibrant music that is on par with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~163653717636 Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:29:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_163653717636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_163177926276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - Every now and then--though it's increasingly rare in this age of quick laughs and cheap Hollywood thrills--a book comes along that is so deeply personal, so profoundly moving, you can't put it down. David Sedaris' dry yet tender Me Talk Pretty One... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~163177926276 Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:00:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_163177926276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_163176287876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - First love can be hell. For all its nature and beauty, first love can also be cruel, painful, and draining. For those of us who felt the pangs of such intense feeling at a young age, we more than likely remember with fondness the object of our affection,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~163176287876 Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:16:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_163176287876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_163120189060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - For someone who doesn't actually exist, Bridget Jones is one of my all-time favorite people. When she was first introduced in Helen Fielding's smash hit bestseller and its subsequent (and inevitable) film adaptation Bridget Jones' Diary, I was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~163120189060 Sat, 27 Nov 2004 03:13:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_163120189060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_162932952708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - It's always disconcerting to see a once-exciting filmmaker stumbling around like he has no clue what he's doing. Anyone who sat through the mess that was Francis Ford Coppola's embarrassingly Harlequin Romance-inspired version of Bram Stoker's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~162932952708 Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:00:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_162932952708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_149116915332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - I've always considered myself to be a bit of an unconventional person. I don't do things according to public norms and ideologies. I've always thought of myself as pretty much an outsider, someone who's always been "looking in" from the other side of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~149116915332 Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:53:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_149116915332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_149039713924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kknox0616 - The Seventies really were pretty cool, you know. I was born in 1971, so I was pretty much growing up in the thick of it. The Bee-Gees and Elton John were all over the radio back then, their heady pop confections all the rage during the days of bell... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~149039713924 Sun, 25 Jul 2004 00:49:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_149039713924?linkin_id=8003929