© 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-machkick Recent reviews written by member machkick en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_62013738628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - "For the devil is a gentleman, and doesn't keep his word."-G. K. Chesterton. <br><br/> <br><br/>Vampires and Westerns. You don't speak of them in the same breath, usually, but the connection's there. Did it start with Horror of Dracula-which isn't quite... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~62013738628 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:29:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_62013738628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_60158480004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Warning: since I'm comparing a fairly faithful tv remake to the classic film in some detail, huge spoilers abound. If you haven't seen any version of Laura, and think you might conceivably want to, please, go away and don't come back til you have... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~60158480004 Mon, 1 Apr 2002 01:25:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_60158480004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_59774701188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - I suppose I should begin by apologizing for the title. The first time I heard that Dorothy L. Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, had written a series of radio plays on the Gospel story, something very like that title ran through my head. And since I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~59774701188 Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:01:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_59774701188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_58991808132?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Y'know, since about mid-December of last year, I haven't watched too many movies, theatrically or otherwise. And the ones I have, struck me as pretty pale. And I no longer race to the movie news sites to see what crazy new projects are on the burner... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~58991808132 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:47:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_58991808132?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_55709896324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - It was with a light heart that I jaunted down to the video store with intent to buy on February 5, Anno Domini 2002. Buzz was running high about ADV's release of Robotech: the New Generation. The 3rd and final season of that series, AWOL in the 90s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~55709896324 Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:03:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_55709896324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_54341701252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Kei Katsuragi, deluxe skirt-chaser and fighter-pilot, is pried away from his latest love (Tina) by an irate father with a shotgun and a trusty friend (Olson Bern) with a motorcycle. In that order. Olson's here to rescue him because they've both been... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~54341701252 Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:29:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_54341701252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_52647661188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Leopold (Hugh Jackman), third Duke of Albany, had many problems that fateful day in 1876. He's impoverished, conscious of the parasitic nature of his class, interested in mechanical inventions he can't get other people interested in, and he's about to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~52647661188 Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:17:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_52647661188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_43982687876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - The nerdy young Harker (John Van Eyssen) arrives on Dracula's doorstep, accompanied by voice-over extracts from his diary. He's not especially flummoxed by the coachman dumping him about a mile from the castle, or by the fact that no one is there to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~43982687876 Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:08:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_43982687876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_43832151684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Investment broker and social butterfly Francis Warren (Errol Flynn) has waaay too much time-and money-on his hands. When he's not at the office (which is most of the time), he's cooing affectionately to his lovely wife Rita (Brenda Marshall), kissing up... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~43832151684 Sat, 20 Oct 2001 22:41:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_43832151684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_42392194692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Mankind really, really wants to go to space. Just ask Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), who's putting the finishing touches on Enterprise NX-01, Earth's first long-range starship. Buuuut, mankind out in space really could create alot of problems... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~42392194692 Sat, 6 Oct 2001 01:58:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_42392194692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_42032467588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Sometime in the nineteenth century, the crew of the good ship Demeter is shredded by a mysterious passenger. When the ship runs aground, we see strange footprints leading away from it, footprints that slowly change from wolf's to man's. Next we meet... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~42032467588 Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:22:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_42032467588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_41143930500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - A black carriage dashes over the green hills of England to a swaggering yet strangely melancholy orchestral piece, hereafter referred to as "the battle theme". Atop it, Dracula (Lee) wrestles with his nemesis Professor Van Helsing (Cushing). A... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~41143930500 Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:12:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_41143930500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_39270977156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - A pair of policemen blunder into Carfax Abbey, where they find a corpse with a broken neck at the foot of a mighty staircase. In the next room, a man lies in a coffin, "a-weltering in his own blood, with a stake driven through 'is 'eart." The only... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~39270977156 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:20:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_39270977156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_38510562948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Wilrowan Blackheart-Will, to his friends-is the dashing Captain of the Queen's Guard, an amusing scamp who can please any woman but his wife Lili, whom he dearly loves. When the scatterbrained Queen misplaces a magical artifact vital to the kingdom's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~38510562948 Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:59:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_38510562948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_35199356548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - A low key narration gives us the 411 on the Baskerville family as the visuals fade to from Baskerville Hall-as-matte-painting to Baskerville Hall-as-Bray-Studios-set. We are rapidly introduced to the infamous Sir Hugo Baskerville and his ruffianly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~35199356548 Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:58:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_35199356548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_34398899844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - It is the mid-nineteenth century, and England is embroiled in the Crimean War. War-funds in gold are shipped regularly to France and thence to the front, but the first leg of the gold's journey is by train, from London to one of the port cities. The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~34398899844 Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:51:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_34398899844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_33596739204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Space Opera anime-everybody in my generation know its tropes, even people like me, who barely watched it growing up. The wise old captain who triumphs through daring and impossible tactics (Clancy's Captain Ramius of the Red October is a second... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~33596739204 Sun, 29 Jul 2001 02:18:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_33596739204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_32000413316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Roundabout 1969 or 1970, it apparently occurred to Hammer Studios that their Frankenstein movies weren't doing so hot. Perhaps it was impossible to take the subject matter seriously anymore (although the Frankensteins had always been their snarkiest,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~32000413316 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:32:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_32000413316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_29539405444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - In 1955, "End of the Affair," Graham Greene's bestselling novel about human and divine love, fell into the hands of a low-budget British production team, the very workmanlike and seemingly unenthusiastic director Edward Dmytryk, the terminally miscast... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~29539405444 Mon, 2 Jul 2001 00:07:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_29539405444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_28490567300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) is one unhappy man; a widower with one son whose wife was killed some years ago in a devastating space battle. He's been offered the command of Deep Space Nine, a gothic-looking alien space station in a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~28490567300 Mon, 25 Jun 2001 02:14:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_28490567300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_27975585412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - Welcome to the town of Schettel; population: oh, say, about 12 lynch-capable males, probably roughly as many women and maybe twice as many children, so let's say about or just under fifty. On the outskirts looms Castle Mittelhaus, home to Count... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~27975585412 Sun, 24 Jun 2001 02:03:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_27975585412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_27344342660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - I actually started this review at a time some days back when the site claimed there were no reviews of this book. Now Greatpilgrim has an excellent one up, but I didn't feel like deleting what I'd written so far... <br><br/> <br><br/>It must be oh,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~27344342660 Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:05:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_27344342660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_26900074116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - It is 1941: a dark hour in the history of Europe, a time of war and tyranny, of mass murder and race murder, and other crimes for which the language scarcely has a name. Yet even here, even now, the Nazis, the Lords of Darkness du jour, are... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~26900074116 Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:20:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_26900074116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_25851432580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - One of the few things that kept me playing Final Fantasy 8 for any length of time was the Guardian Force angle: being able to sit back and let some mighty monster (which you could rename! I loved naming my Efret "Fifi") do all the fighting for you was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~25851432580 Thu, 7 Jun 2001 02:12:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_25851432580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_25439145604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author machkick - The very handsome James Franciscus rides into town on a really nice-looking black Andalusian. He's looking for the gorgeous Gila Golan, and he finds her doing a high-dive in her Wild West show, with the help of a really attractive white Andalusian... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~25439145604 Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:50:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_25439145604?linkin_id=8003929