Epinions Recent Reviews for mfsibley

A Child's Garden of Verses

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:18:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - In a world where the lives of people are interspersed and habitation in its most elementary form exists with a paradox of expectations in a world far removed from the former, we are introduced to a cast of characters that form the basis for a story that...

A Candle Burns Down. . .

Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:59:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Sol Nazerman is dead. . . He earns a living as a pawnbroker, walks the streets, tolerates his cloying relatives, puts up with the constant degradations hurled upon him by a bitter old man, and accepts the front money of a self-promoting...

The Rocking Horse Winner

Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:20:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - In 1926 D. H. Lawrence wrote a chilling little tale, a mere smattering of pages, that present one family's descent into a maelstrom of greed, materialistic tendencies and sexual fascinations that swirl into a black hole from which no escape will be...

All Hands On Deck

Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:01:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Titanic. Even the word makes us stop to pull immediate memories of what has been projected throughout countless history lessons, books, movies and articles. Who among us has not heard the story of that fateful night in the North Atlantic? Titanic. It...

I'm A Schizophrenic and So Am I

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:05:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Imagine a scenario such as this: a patient visits their psychiatrist faithfully, week after week, sometimes several times a week. They lay their heart and soul, and sometimes a little more information than any reasonable person needs to know, into the...

The Other Side of the Coin

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:50:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - A little girl's childhood, filled with dreams of stardom and a life of being rich, famous and recognized are jerked out in the blink of an eye by the continued rape of an 8 year old girl by her father's 'good family friend.' She grows through the years,...

Miracles Do Happen

Sun, 30 May 2004 13:55:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Imagine a world of total darkness where colours do not exist, the sight of beauty blackened and nonexistant. Add to the mixture a total lack of sound; no chirping of birds, no baby's cry, music refused entrance, sirens that will never punctuate with...

Goodbye, My Lovely

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:38:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Imagine this. A small Texas town caught in a stranglehold of family values run amok; dust that blows winds hot and cold with frustrations and betrayals; the biggest excitement is listening to the grass grow. Three generations of a born and bred cowboy...

Once Upon A Midnight Dreary, While I Pondered Weak and Weary. . .

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:32:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - A gothic mansion, squirreled away from all semblance of humanity, becomes the magnet that attracts a group of four unsuspecting people, who get more than they bargained for over the course of a term to study the world of psychic phenomena. Add to this...

The Age of Innocence

Fri, 6 Feb 2004 20:18:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Our tale is set in New York City, with the social caste system of the times taking centre stage in tandem with the inner workings of a calculated menage a trois that attempts to go against the flow of the strata that permeates Mrs. Astor's Four Hundred...

The Hustler

Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:47:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - The definition of a hustler, according to Webster's Dictionary, is a professional gamester, gambler, bookmaker or plunger, who also wears the coat of a prostitute or call girl (although in this case it would warrant the moniker of call boy). All this...

The Innocents

Sat, 8 Nov 2003 19:12:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Our scene opens at the height of Queen Victoria's reign in England in the mid-19th century. A gentleman, in the guise of 'The Uncle' (Michael Redgrave) has been entrusted, much to his chagrin, with the care and upbringing of a young niece, Flora and a nep...

Shadow of The Vampire

Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:51:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but vampire fangs are a girl's best friend. Or, is it a case of beauty and the beast gone asunder? Perhaps Shadow of the Vampire is a tale of fantasy run amok; the what if's and how could's combined to create a...

Angels and Insects

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:21:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - "You don't like suspense?" "No, I don't. I'm afraid of surprises." "I must remember never to surprise you then." This petite exchange of the in's and out's of surprises per se, is a guaranteed herald of one gargantuan surprise that will turn the worl...

A Ghost Story With A Decided Twist

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:18:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Long ago, on the seacoast of England, in a small village called Whitecliff-on-the Sea, lived a woman who fell in love with a man. While this story may seem simple in and of itself, it hides more from the eye than one can imagine. The stage is being set fo...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:07:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Gregory Peck. . .Robert Mitchum. . .Martin Balsam. . .Polly Bergen. . .Bernard Herrmann. . .J. Lee Thompson. . .John R. McDonald. . .Telly Savalas. . .Sam Leavitt. . .James R. Webb. . . Lori Martin. This list comprises all the pluses that...

This is NOT a Pretty Picture!!

Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:27:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Woof. Woof. Woof, woof, woof. . . I think the aforementioned five words pretty much sum up the concoction known as Gigli, and it's an insult to the dogs of the world whose language has to be used to describe this oozing mass of ego from Jennifer Lopez and...

Oozing Sex From Every Pore--P-U-L-L-E-Z-E!!

Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:24:59 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - 'Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.' People are inclined to think th...

The Summer We Discovered Life. . .

Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:09:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Every so often, as surely as night follows day, a film comes along that manages to transport us from our everyday lives and into a time and place that is recalled through memories of better and in a reversal of fortunes, turbulent times. To Kill A...

Lizzie Borden Took An Axe. . .

Sat, 7 Jun 2003 20:36:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - 'The meek shall inherit the earth,' or, in this case to be more precise, the Meiks of Thurman, Texas. A tight little gothic tale has been presented for our perusal, with God, Avenging Angels of Death, ax murders, a dysfunctional family, twists and turns,...

Practice, Practice, Practice

Sun, 1 Jun 2003 16:27:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Exceptional lives about extraordinary people always make good book and movie sense. The possibilities are limitless and the audience favours a bit of an inside peek at the lives of the rich and famous. This is the case with Hilary And Jackie, a film...

A Minor Note

Sun, 1 Jun 2003 11:18:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - It is my sad duty to come to this review, for I may be the one person who is not in awe of this film. After seeing all the advertisements, the various awards ceremonies, including the now famous kiss that Oscar winner, Adrian Brody, gave Halle Berry,...

If You Only Believe. . .

Sun, 18 May 2003 13:30:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - 'Death is merely a change of state. The soul is a fresh expression of the self. The dead are not dust. They really are only a footfall away.'

It is the ensuing years after World War I, and Charles Castle (Toby Stephens) is eking out a...

Be Careful What You Dream. . .It Might Just Come True

Sat, 17 May 2003 19:06:47 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - You don't have to sleep to dream. . . No, you simply have to watch this nightmare on screen to realize how sporadic the record of Neil Jordan has become, and how the viewer is expected to swallow hook, line and sinker an extremely improbable storyline,...

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night And The Moon Was Shining Bright

Sat, 10 May 2003 19:53:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mfsibley - Listen my children and you shall hear of escapades of profound and eerie fear! It is a cold, snowy winter, the wind is howling and the spirits of the dead are restless. One in particular will appear to wreck havoc on a group of four elderly gentleman and...