© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-macresarf1 Recent reviews written by member macresarf1 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_408195468932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - "As devised and refined by James M. Cain, Jim Thompson and their gloomy paperback peers, the crime novel aimed its cheap handgun at the heart of America's most prized beliefs about its destiny: that the loot we've scooped up will belong to us forever... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408195468932 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:08:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408195468932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_380094680708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - When you have long suffered from emotional, mental, and therefore, physical pain, you may become depressed, and need incentives . . . to do almost anything. If you are Frank Falenczyk, a Polish-American hit-man from Buffalo, New York, the incentives... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~380094680708 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:46:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_380094680708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_347906805380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - When Daniel Brecht (Matt Craven) and his 16 year-old son Kayle (Shia LeBoeuf) are driving back to LA from a "bonding" fishing trip in the Sierras, through no fault of their own, they are cut off on the mountain highway; there is a wreck; and Dad is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~347906805380 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:30:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_347906805380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_346467569284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - That's right! CARRIE and the SHOWGIRLS Liberate Nazi-Occupied Holland! Thinking back on seeing Paul Verhoeven's BLACK BOOK (Zwartboek), I was reminded of one of the first routines presented by the great Syd Caesar (in the World War II Coast... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~346467569284 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:52:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_346467569284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_345505762948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - "You may look for motive in an act, but only after the act has been committed. An effect creates not only the search for a cause, but the reality of the cause itself. I must warn you, however, that the attempt to establish relationships between acts and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~345505762948 Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:33:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_345505762948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_341796884100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - Henry Jaglom's SITTING DUCKS (1980) is the least self-conscious, funniest, most entertaining of the eighteen independent pictures he has made since 1971. The film epitomizes what is best in his work. If you dig SITTING DUCKS, without being able to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~341796884100 Sun, 1 Apr 2007 02:24:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_341796884100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_341730758276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - STORM OVER ASIA: Did Osama bin Laden Watch This Film Somewhere Along the Line? Russian film makers of the 1920's were the pioneers in epic picture making. Taught by the theorists Kuleshov and Vertov (who gleaned some ideas from exhaustive... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~341730758276 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:06:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_341730758276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_341351108228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - One can imagine OUT COLD's Director Malcolm Mowbray coming to America from Britain, in 1989, prepared to conquer Hollywood. Mowbray has a little indie black comedy, OUT COLD, written by a newcomer, Leonard Glasser (who already has financing for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~341351108228 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:53:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_341351108228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_340828851844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - Brilliantly framed in a Brechtian style by maverick German director Michael Verhoeven, MY MOTHER'S COURAGE begins in a German train station, where we meet George Tabori, on whose memoir the film is based. We also learn that this is a film set, at the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~340828851844 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:28:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_340828851844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_340276186756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - A hot 1947 afternoon in downtown LA. A slight breeze is coming through a window on the third floor of the old Criminal Court House. Reminds Larry Ballentine (Robert Young), on the witness stand at the end of his murder trial, of a similar warm day in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~340276186756 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:59:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_340276186756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_339808390788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - To begin with, though nothing is wrong with viewers and critics seeing BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI as a grand adventure story or an heroic war film, I think they miss the point. Adventure story and war film it may be, but David Lean's 161 minute epic is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~339808390788 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:17:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_339808390788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338151771780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - "If you want to know people," observes Detective "Sticks" Brunner (Kelsey Grammar), "start with their dreams and work backwards." The body of the Chinese bookie had washed ashore on an early morning tide under the pilings of a pier in Atlantic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338151771780 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:31:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338151771780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_336342650500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - "The side of the ship made an opaque belt of shadow on the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea. But I saw at once something elongated and pale floating very close to the ladder. Before I could form a guess a faint flash of phosphorescent light, which... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~336342650500 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:28:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_336342650500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_334875758212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - And for St. Patrick's Day, WHAT'S UP, DOC? -- something entirely different: The Credits are a book's turning leaves of memory, a jaunty Cole Porter theme ("You're the Top") sung underneath by La Streisand -- and we are in San Francisco! No serial... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~334875758212 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:57:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_334875758212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_331447570052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - 1969: She had come away from her teaching job in the Midwest to be with the man for a week. They had driven across the Golden Gate Bridge, up the winding road which leads to the crest of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. Only one other car was in the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~331447570052 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:56:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_331447570052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_326664883844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - ". . . Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again, ye CHILDREN OF MEN. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: Seeing that is past as a watch in the night." -- from Psalm 90. The year is 2027, and "Baby Diego,"... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~326664883844 Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:36:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_326664883844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_326246960772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - "They took us from port to port,'' Club Owner Mother Gin Sling (Oregonean Swede, Ona Munson) confesses to her International Quarter guests at her Shanghai gesture, a final Chinese New Year's Party. Girls hoisted in cages outside their window are sold... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~326246960772 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:28:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_326246960772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_293052190340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - Following the Pulitzer Prize Tony Kushner won for his 1992 Angels in America, his career has been a rocky one. Subsequent plays have not been so well received, his screenplays for his own work and Steven Spielberg's MUNICH were criticized, and his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~293052190340 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:09:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_293052190340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_289893158532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - "The Toilet of Venus," which figures as as an erotic and artistic inspiration in Roger Michell's VENUS, was completed in 1651 by the Spaniard, Diego Velazquez. The painting is renowned for its composition: a young woman lying with her back to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~289893158532 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:22:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_289893158532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_289375358596?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - Based on Ben Rice's popular 2000 novella, "Pobby and Dignan," shot in 2005, OPAL DREAM arrives in America as Christmas Fare, suitable for the entire family. The Williamsons of Australia live way heck 'n gone in the Outback. Rex (Vince Colosimo)... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~289375358596 Sat, 9 Dec 2006 03:17:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_289375358596?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_288806702724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - Years ago, in 1989, Edward Zwick directed GLORY, about black troops in the American Civil War, a film rightly thought to have been a breakthrough in our movies by a promising new director. Since then, unfortunately, his pictures like LEGENDS OF THE... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~288806702724 Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:30:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_288806702724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_288531910276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - "What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own." --Diane Arbus. --------------- A number of forms of symbolism are invoked in FUR: AN... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~288531910276 Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:57:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_288531910276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_285060206212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - What do you get when you combine the plot of a Chinese gangster yarn with the ethos of the Sicilian Corleones transferred to an unredeemed, foul-mouthed, bigoted psychopathic gang kingpin (played by Jack Nicholson) among the embittered but practical... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~285060206212 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:23:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_285060206212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_282525273732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - For some years now I've resolved to write on this date a brief review of EXECUTIVE ACTION, David Miller's spare semi-documentary about the JFK Assassination. Each year, November being a particularly sad month for me, something has deflected me. This... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~282525273732 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:13:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_282525273732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_281256496772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author macresarf1 - Britain's Anthony Minghella is one of those touted writer/directors who always comes up a bit short, as he does here in his part thriller, part crime story, part exploration of love relationships: BREAKING AND ENTERING. The unifying theme of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~281256496772 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:31:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_281256496772?linkin_id=8003929