Epinions Recent Reviews for mariansmith74

If you're smart and you're blonde, then this shampoo's for you!

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:24:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - Bed Head TIGI Dumb Blonde shampoo - not for idiots anymore! I've been a "bottle blonde" since I got married four years ago, and this is the only shampoo I've found that never fades my hair. Even my hairdresser comments on how well my hair maintains...

A Witchy Woman's Book

Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:46:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - I'm developing an increasing interest in wicca, naturopathy, and paganism and this book proved to be a great introduction for me to read. It's written by Fiona Horne, a hip Australian radio and tv personality. Fiona does a great job of briefly and...

I laughed and cried

Mon, 28 May 2001 23:59:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - I laughed and cried - almost at the same time - and that's no small feat either for myself or the makers of this movie. Baz Luhrman and company (makers of the comparable Strictly Ballroom) have done it again with a bigger budget, creative use of pop...

Geeky Girls of the Word Unite...Boycott this Movie!

Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:33:24 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - I watched this movie on TNT last night, anxious to see the supposed "cult classic" starring Alicia Silverstone and Cary "As You Wish" Elwes (of Princess Bride fame).

Well Cary, I really wish I hadn't seen this movie.

The plot (and I...

Julia

Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:41:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - I caught this movie on either AMC or TCM the other night and began to watch it simply for Jane Fonda's and Jason Robards' acting, then was pleasantly surprised to find it had an intriguing story to go along with these great performances, plus Vanessa...

"Blow" blows

Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:58:39 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - The newest offering from director Ted Demme, like most mediocre movies, suffers its deepest wound of a bad screenplay.

The screenplay, based on the autobiography of George Jung, the man who allegedly started and supplied the cocaine boom in...

Water, Carry Me

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:47:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - Water, Carry Me, by Thomas Moran tells a tale of modern Ireland - steeped in a now-decades old war that is fought not with frontlines and armies, but with secret terrorist factions of the IRA and various other guerilla-type groups.

Young Una...

Saving Face

Fri, 4 Aug 2000 17:52:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - Grace is a fifty-ish British woman, a good citizen who gives to charity, and host of her local tea-party club. When her husband dies, he leaves her 300,000 pounds in debt (which, for us Yanks, translates to almost half a million dollars). Rather than...

But nothing, honey.

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:21:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - It's difficult for me to give a so-so rating to a gay film, since there have been so few made, and, out of those few, even fewer that have risen above stereotypes and presented gay life as something other than tragic (e.g. Torch Song Trilogy, the Boys in...

Another Bruckheimer Classic

Thu, 15 Jun 2000 04:08:58 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - I thought I would like this movie. I thought it would be a little like Speed, or Days of Thunder or an action movie that lived up to its name: just a good action movie with a little romance thrown in. The thing with Gone in 60 Seconds, though, is that...

The Great Oppression

Wed, 31 May 2000 19:19:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - This movie played in theatres for about five seconds. Reason being: it didn't appeal to a wide audience. I, however, LOVED it. Here's why.

This movie (based on a true story) tells a simple story of people standing up for what they believe...

Evolution of a Phallic Symbol - a review of Dead Man's Gun

Wed, 31 May 2000 00:50:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - Part of TNT's "Action Wednesdays" "Dead Man's Gun" - a sort of Outer Limits that takes place in the Mythic American West - has been airing since last January. Though many episodes originally aired on Showtime as long ago as 1997, the...

It's truly a part of who I am today

Tue, 30 May 2000 21:00:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - I attended Miniwanca, one of two summer camps sponsered by the American Youth Foundation, in the summers of '87 - '90, and I can truly say this experience is a part of who I am today.

The main tenet of Miniwanca is the "four-fold way of...

Hold the Fromage, s'il vous plait

Tue, 30 May 2000 19:23:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - If you're a European film buff like me, and you're not completely exhausted by last year's onslaught of apocalyptic end-of-existence sci fi offerings, then rent Delicatessen - an absurdist French film available (suprisingly) at your local...

Forget Syd Field, and all the rest of 'em

Tue, 30 May 2000 03:29:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - As a struggling screenwriter, and I emphasize "struggling", this book has helped me far more than Syd Field's book, Robert McKee's best-selling "Story Structure" or any one of the numerous "how-to" screenwriting articles and...

Location, Location, Location

Tue, 30 May 2000 02:32:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - There’s nothing much new about the News Bar anymore. When it first opened on University Place, right in the heart of the NYU area in between the East and West Villages, it was hyped as a hip haven of the information age. Vogue even did a fashion shoot...

Tease Your Tastebuds – and Quench your Craving for Culture

Tue, 30 May 2000 02:20:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mariansmith74 - In the heart of Santa Monica’s bustling third-street promenade lies one of those eclectic “American” restaurants that serve up a variety of dishes in mountainous portions. Teaser’s is its name and teasing your taste for a good time is definitely its...