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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-lemon_lime Recent reviews written by member lemon_lime en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_488398032516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - Most every review of Sam Mendes’ Away We Go - even the positive ones - seems rather intent on pointing out the film’s ‘slightness’, although it’s tempting to say these misguided reviewers have simply confused... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488398032516 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:00:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488398032516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484651077252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions is one of my favorite books in the entire universe, but I’m still more than willing to concede that it’s also a bit of a mess. In fact, it’s a huge mess at times. The author’s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484651077252 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:38:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484651077252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482691485316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - For all the press it’s received in the past few weeks, Inglorious Basterds is probably not at all the movie you think it is. The parts receiving the most attention – the brutal killing and scalping of Nazis by the Pitt-led... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482691485316 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:27:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482691485316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_481614925444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - It starts with a camera’s dazzling longshot from high above, a slow telephoto zoom that begins with a crowd and winds up with a person - or, rather, the back of a person’s head.  Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), supposed surveillance... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~481614925444 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:18:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_481614925444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468700794500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - How I yearn to throw myself into endless space and float above the awful abyss. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe It begins inside a mostly barren Astrodome, the one-time Wicked Witch of the West leading the red and white uniformed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468700794500 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:58:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468700794500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440782065284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - I ask very little from my Will Ferrell movies, only that they make me laugh and laugh often. Thankfully, Mr. Ferrell is quite adept at pulling involuntary spasms of laughter from my belly, and I know that even the stupidest of his films will have their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440782065284 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:21:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440782065284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438317452932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - I recently rented 21 against my own best judgment, wanting it to be decent if not a masterpiece, hoping the presence of people I like (Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth) and a surprisingly good box office showing pointed to, at the least,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438317452932 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:46:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438317452932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433650110084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - I'm going to do this one in a stream-of-consciousness style, as a film like Funny Games all but demands it, setting out as it does to provoke you, to push your buttons, to make you think about the larger implications of what you're watching. Or,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433650110084 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:56:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433650110084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427478388356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - "May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead." A well-crafted, well-paced, well-acted film can be an absolutely beautiful thing. When it's done right, it all looks so easy. And 82 year old director Sidney Lumet has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427478388356 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:20:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427478388356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_420502670980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - Noah Baumbach's latest film, Margot at the Wedding, was something I desperately wanted to like but, in the end, can't honestly recommend. Baumbach, who previously wrote and directed the brilliant divorce dramedy, The Squid and the Whale,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~420502670980 Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:41:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_420502670980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408252616324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - It's a damn shame that Dimension Films chose to split up Grindhouse into two separately released feature films on DVD. For those of us with no ability to get to a movie theater during the two weeks it was out, we missed out on what surely would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408252616324 Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:35:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408252616324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_412388724356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - Juno walks a fine line throughout its 91 minutes, continually straddling the divide between precocious hyper-literate pop culture reference points and traditional good old fashioned storytelling. That it never falls - that instead it constantly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~412388724356 Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:17:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_412388724356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_335629749892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - I'm going to toss objectivity out the window right at the outset and proclaim that I really, really, really wanted to like Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation. Before I'd seen so much as a single frame, I wanted to be in love with it, to praise... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~335629749892 Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:52:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_335629749892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_406713568900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - There's a whole lot to admire about Wes Anderson's latest film, The Darjeeling Limited, but I still found myself liking it a bit less than most of his previous films, and as such, am having a rather difficult time writing this damned review. It's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~406713568900 Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:14:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_406713568900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402588274308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - Julie Delpy's Two Days in Paris is a slight but often entertaining film about a mismatched couple spending, yep, two days in Paris. At its best, it recalls some of its strongest influences - Annie Hall (or any Keaton/Allen film really),... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402588274308 Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:09:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402588274308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_403566792324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - It would be a bit misleading to say that Okkervil River has outdone itself with its latest record, The Stage Names, if for no other reason than that they weren't particularly aiming to. Will Sheff and company wisely seem to realize that it would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403566792324 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:35:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403566792324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402041835140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - Certain films should be required viewing for young couples in the midst of new and overwhelming love, a corrective of sorts, something to help set the bar at a realistic level - or at the very least a reminder that this doesn't last and so if... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402041835140 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:55:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402041835140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_399873117828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - The highest compliment I could possibly give to this summer's Hairspray is that, while it is not my kind of movie at all, I still found myself enjoying it. I wasn't one of those kids who watched Grease over and over, who had any desire to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~399873117828 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:58:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_399873117828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_383393042052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - If summer blockbusters are supposed to be big loud fun, then Live Free or Die Hard certainly succeeds. If, however, it's supposed to be as good as the original, it falls a little short - mostly by being about a half an hour too long. Still, it's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~383393042052 Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:21:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_383393042052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_294449876612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - When a film as bold, strange, confusing and beautiful as Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain comes along, you can either pick it apart or simply give yourself over to it. A philosophical art-house love story dolled up as a time-bending science... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~294449876612 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:31:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_294449876612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_363321462404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - There were tears in my eyes as the final credits rolled for Waitress, Adrienne Shelley's eccentric, winsome, and touching film about a lonely woman stuck in a small-town life. The tears weren't only for the film itself - happy tears for a picture... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~363321462404 Fri, 18 May 2007 03:05:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_363321462404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_352885771908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - It occurs to me that 80 minutes is perhaps the perfect length for a suspense/horror film. After all, unless your name is Alfred Hitchcock, you have no business wasting 120 minutes or more of our lives when a mere 80 would more than adequately suffice... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~352885771908 Sun, 6 May 2007 21:11:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_352885771908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_327826312836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - It's becoming increasingly hard for some Americans to remember just what it was like to be in America in early 2003, in the midst of the run-up to war with Iraq, a war that now, nearly four years later, has turned out to be one of - if not THE - biggest... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~327826312836 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:50:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_327826312836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_334247923332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - Perfectly average movies are an interesting species, and I suppose it's a good thing that they exist, though when the credits roll it's always a bit discouraging to realize all the hard work and effort that so many people put into making such a ho-hum... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~334247923332 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:10:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_334247923332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_329742454404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - I wonder what it is exactly that draws Robin Williams so eagerly toward horrible movies. Despite the occasional good decision - Good Will Hunting or Insomnia, for example - he's been in a string of truly awful movies that stretches back... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~329742454404 Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:47:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_329742454404?linkin_id=8003929