Epinions Recent Reviews for m001

Canon A80: Excellent performance, tremendous flexibility, questionable ergonomics

Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:14:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - I thought I had found the perfect 4-megapixel camera... Perhaps not! I came to the A80 as the proud owner of Canon's EOS Rebel 35mm camera, which is a workhorse piece of photography equipment and very, very highly recommended. Canon knows photography,...

JBL N38II: A Floorstanding Speaker You Shouldn't Overlook

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:25:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Note: this review refers to the JBL N38II, which is a cosmetically updated version of the N38. They...

JBL S38II: Superior Sound for a (Sturdy) Bookshelf

Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:48:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - JBL's reputation in consumer speakers has taken a hit over the Net in the past few years, although few argue that they continue to produce sensational speakers for professional/movie theater/studio use. What I've always liked about their consumer line is...

Come Away With Me: The New, Young Face of Jazz-Pop

Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:56:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - I owe my discovery of this record, and many others recently, to New York's WFUV, the radio voice of Fordham University and, in my humble opinion, the best college/public radio station around. If you haven't checked it out, you ought to, as they...

Poses: Cigarettes, Chocolate Milk, Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:47:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - If this were the 1950's, Rufus Wainwright would be living in the Brill Building, cranking out pop songs for girl groups. Well, on second thought, he might be on Broadway, penning ditties for the stage. He might even find work in Nasheville, laying down...

MulhollandDrive: What, Exactly, Is Going On Here? The Answer Isn't Important

Thu, 30 May 2002 13:41:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Mulholland Drive might infuriate you; don't say you haven't been warned. Many will want an explanation of the film after they've struggled all the way through; some will want to know what the heck is going on about 15 minutes into it.

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SONICBlueRioVolt: Great Idea, Mediocre Execution

Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:34:55 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Opening remarks

I've had a frustrating run with MP3 players. My first experience was with a CD-based model made by Classic. It was one of the first such CD-based MP3 players widely available commercially, and I suffer the curse...

InvisibleCities: If On a Winter's Night You're Looking for Something to Read...

Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:57:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - I first read this book a couple of years before I saw Venice for the first time, and after the trip I had an entirely new experience with Invisible Cities, which is both about and not about Venice all at once. Ostensibly, Invisible Cities...

Nokia5165: The Evolution Continues

Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:22:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - The Nokia 5165 was the third Nokia phone in the lineage of cell phones that I've been through. I began with the analog 918, followed a couple of years later by the analog 252 (both of which I've reviewed elsewhere on Epinions). For...

TheLimitsOfInterpretation: No Son-of-Name-of-the-Rose

Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:03:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Umberto Eco keeps one foot firmly on the ground of creating detailed, elegant, intellectual works of fiction (like The Name of the Rose and Focault's Pendulum); the other foot is settled squarely on the floor of academia. He is a professor...

SeeingVoices: Exploring the Definition of Language

Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:40:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Once again, Oliver Sacks successfully teaches us something about the nature of the human nervous system--and, hence, something about the very nature of what it means to be human--by examining neurologic and cognitive development in a disordered state. In...

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (N09-00048) For PC: Are You [Windows] XPerienced?

Sun, 16 Dec 2001 17:16:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - From a completely non-expert point-of-view, let me offer this: Windows XP is the first version of Microsoft's omnipresent operating system that hasn't made me want to toss my computer out of a window because of some inexplicable glitch or hang-up. Two...

Dell Dimension 2100 Series: DellDimension2100: Within Some Limitations It's a Powerhouse in Midnight Grey

Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:22:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - You really need to ask yourself three key questions when buying a computer nowadays...

How much am I willing to spend? This is truly the rate-limiting factor in purchasing a PC.

How much computer do I really...

Iomega Hipzip 31311 40 MB MP3 Player: HipZip: There's Many a Slip Twixt a Cup and a (Hip) Zip

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:27:50 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Ah, the joys of portable MP3 players! Hours and hours of music compressed for your listening pleasure and available for your morning jog, your work-out at the gym, your stroll with baby, your cross-country jaunt in the SUV. Well, there has been an...

Snatch: Jewels, Boxing, and One Smoking Mobile Home

Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:09:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Despite the obvious way in which Guy Ritchie's previous film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, derived itself from such high-profile sources as Tarrantino's Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, with a dash of David Mamet, a sprinkle of...

Amnesiac: Now, if We Could Only Remember Where We Left Those Guitars...

Sat, 28 Jul 2001 16:58:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - If OK Computer was the sound of the Machine beating us, and if Kid A was what we sounded like after being swallowed into its belly, then Amnesiac is either (a) the noise we'll make when we try to fight our way out, and regain some of...

FinalFantasy: Unmatched As Pure Spectacle

Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:40:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Let's get down to brass tacks, shall we--no one will accuse Final Fantasy of being a great film. But as a spectacle, it's absolutely stunning, and a very, very fun ride.

Plot? There isn't much of a story here beyond the scifi...

SexyBeast: Not Sexy, Not Beastly, Not Worth Your Time

Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:39:20 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - There's very little to recommend about Sexy Beast, a film which takes an interesting (if not entirely original) premise and attempts to liven it with some odd (read: 'artistic', at least in the opinion of the director, although they are anything...

ArtificialIntelligence: I, Robot, Am A Little Boy Lost

Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:34:54 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - How disappointing to find that Artificial Intelligence, the film, is essentially not concerned with artificial intelligence, the Big Concept. Of course, 3-hour scientific/philosophical lectures don't make great films, but Speilberg or Kubrick or...

TheGroundBeneathHerFeet: "For what I worshipped stole my love away..."

Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:09:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a mesmerizing and frustrating read, both at once. It is masterfully crafted and very clearly reemphasizes that Rushdie is one of our very finest writers--the man has a supernatural control of our...

Magnolia: Mix Two Parts Brilliant and One Part Disastrous then Sprinkle with Frogs

Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:45:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - I find it very frustrating to talk about or review Magnolia, because I'm convinced that this could have been one of the great films about modern American life. With clever editing (or even any editing) this should have been as gripping, as...

OBrotherWhereArtThou?: On the Road with Homer and the Soggy Bottom Boys

Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:14:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - Book I: Invocation and part summary, or...

Some introductory comments

I've been a fan, if not a devotee, of the Cohen brothers' work since Miller's Crossing, one of their two modern masterpieces (along with Fargo)...

Castaway: The (Poorly-told) Tale of a Fateful Trip

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:39:51 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - The film itself: a complete shipwreck

Admittedly, all the gushing about this movie prejudiced me against it before I plunked down my money at Blockbuster. Well, at least it was a Tuesday, meaning I'd get a free "Blockbuster Favorites"...

FarewellMyConcubine: A Relationship Caught in the Mess of History

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:03:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - A large chunk of my favorite foreign films are Chinese, from Raise the Red Lantern to Ju dou, from Eat Drink Man Woman to Shanghai Triad, from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to To Live. These are all among my...

JohnMayer: A Quick Game of Chess With a Salt and Pepper Shaker

Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:30:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author m001 - This epinion was updated on June 15, 2001.

So, I'm hanging out with my brother at his place several months ago, just slapping a few CD's in-and-out of the carousel, and something new to my mind but familiar to my soul comes...