Epinions Recent Reviews for millinocket

The Thing About Georgie - A mother and child review-nion, part XV

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:14:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - What defines a person? Such an unanswerable question. But for children, the answer can often be as simple as hair color or being able to make a free throw. Those surface characteristics are the currency of the playground, serving to...

Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs gets clinical with the Hell's Angels

Fri, 29 May 2009 12:43:25 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - What is this book doing in my house? It must have been on deep, deep discount somewhere or I never would have bought it. You see, I am neurotically careful about reading series books in order. Even those that aren't particularly serial...

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - Sequelitis comes to life

Sun, 24 May 2009 13:40:01 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I have now been in a movie theater two times in one week. This may be unprecedented. Either I'm changing my DVD existence or.......it's summer blockbuster season! I love these Big Movies on the Big Screen - popcorn flicks deserve real...

Star Trek 2009 - Reboot THIS, baby!

Tue, 19 May 2009 12:48:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I began watching Star Trek as a wee lassie when the original series aired on summer afternoons. Back then the monsters were scary, the dilemmas terribly deep and the whole thing very exciting. I went on to become something of a middle...

Greg Iles' True Evil - There's evil in there somewhere...

Thu, 14 May 2009 12:36:18 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I don't have a typical love/hate relationship with the books of Greg Iles. It's more of a really-like/like/dislike/this-
annoys-me
relationship. When he's "on", I thoroughly enjoy his work. When he missteps, I still don't hate it, but...

Doubt - Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep. Martyrs, Monsters or Mortals?

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:56:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I could never be a Roman Catholic priest. You're probably thinking that the whole married, non-Catholic woman thing is the biggest pitfall, but no. It's the public speaking. What a nightmare! And imagine if not only did one have...

The VillaWare UNO Belgian Waffler - Yes, I will leggo your Eggo. Permanently.

Tue, 5 May 2009 19:53:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - About a year ago, I began to step lightly out of character. A little at first, then in larger steps until my family began to question my sanity. You see, I began to cook and bake. From scratch. Oh, it was no new found love for...

Weeds - Season 1 - Light me up!

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:13:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - What is this? A gardening show?Readers, meet Nancy Botwin. Nancy lives in the upscale California community of Agrestic, filled with McMansions and money. She has two sons, a housekeeper, a pool and a fairly extensive...

The Lightning Thief - Me? Meh. Kids? Love it!

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:38:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I wonder if, over the course of the next hundred years or so, we will ever see a Young Adult fantasy fiction novel that bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the Harry Potter novels. At times such as these, I despair that we will not, that...

Penelope - Piggishly Perfect

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:22:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - It's hard to be an eleven-year-old girl. It's hard to parent an eleven-year-old girl. But harder still is finding a movie appropriate for an eleven-year old girl. Hollywood seems hell bent on churning out "romantic comedies" for little...

Changeling - We've Come a Long Way, Angelina Baby

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:07:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - One of the first things you learn as a new parent is that your children really are a part of you. You know their smell and their cry and as they get older their every movement and very essence become ingrained in your heart and your mind. You...

Notre Dame - at the center of the City of Light

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:50:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - What a pretty picture...My first glimpse of the cathedral at Notre Dame was probably the same as that of most American kids - the towering church set against a cloudless, cerulean sky, Rose Window aflame as the sunshine hit the...

Harlan Coben's Tell No One - Forget it! I'm telling everyone!

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:45:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I habitually stay up far later than is strictly advisable. Or necessary. Or healthy. Yet, as a congenital Night Owl, I feel I owe it to my body to listen to those screwed up biorhythms and fritter the late night (and early morning)...

Michael Crichton's Next - how about Never instead?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:18:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Like most of the rest of the world, I don't understand the intricacies of high level genetic research. With Michael Crichton at the helm, however, I'm usually able to go with the flow. Even if the subject is completely foreign to me (I'm...

The Happening - Absolutely Craptacular

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:34:00 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Who keeps giving M. Night Shyamalan money? Whoever it is, they should stop - he just makes movies with it and I can't take any more. He's a one hit wonder with the tenacity of the Energizer bunny, trying in vain to replicate the success of...

Ghost Town - Ricky Gervais is a jerk....and I like it!

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:38:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Ricky Gervais is an actor that's best, for me, when taken in small doses. Half hour episodes of the original Office or a supporting role in Night at the Museum - all good. But given the chance to star in a two hour feature film,...

The Netflix Player by Roku - More movies, less money.

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:48:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I'm a movie junkie. For years we have had a Netflix subscription to provide me with a fix whenever I need one. The convenience of having DVDs delivered to my mailbox from a list I managed online was something that I thought could not be...

Iris Johansen's "A Summer Smile" gives me A Winter Nausea

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:47:39 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Zilah Dabala is an amazing woman. And she has been kidnapped! Clearly drastic measures are called for and Daniel Seifert is the drastic man for the job. Taking place in a series of pretend Middle Eastern locales, the kidnapped amazing...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Brad Pitt sews it up

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:19:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Once, long ago, I carpooled to work with a woman who lived nearby. One day as we bemoaned the fact that it was Monday, and dreamed of how we wished it were Friday, she said, "We're wishing our lives away." She didn't say it in a judgmental or...

Suave Vitamin E Moisturizer - Good N' Cheap!

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:07:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - When it comes to the boring daily necessities, I'm a cheap, cheap woman. I'm always looking for the least expensive product that adequately accomplishes the task at hand. In the winter, one of the most frequents tasks at hand is, in fact, my...

Softlips Cherry - Protect your kisser

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:58:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I do not live in a warm climate. In fact, in the winter it's downright nasty - cold and dry with bitter winds and generally skin mauling conditions. And there is no skin that takes more of the brunt of the winter weather than that on my...

"The Darjeeling Limited" - Wes Anderson derails yet another movie

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:02:02 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I understand the phenomenon of the cult of personality. There are some film directors that consistently capture the mindset or emotional tenor or simply the fascination of a segment of movie-goers. But as much as I understand it, I...

Greg Iles gets his thrill on in "Third Degree"

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:36:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Those of us who read thrillers all know that even our favorite authors are often hit or miss. Nobody hits it out of the park every time and publishing a book a year (or more) may be good for business but it isn't necessarily good for the...

Deep and Dark and Dangerous - A mother and child review-nion, part XIV

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:44:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I'm so proud! Mininocket has chosen and devoured her very first Junior Bloody Knife Novel*. Not a silly scary little kid book, but a real ghost story with quite a few real chills. I'm not ready for her to start on Stephen King, but she...

Jacqueline Woodson's Hush - What's in a name? A mother and child review-nion, part XIII

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:44:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - How do you define yourself? Is it by the things you have, the place you live, the people you love, the work you do? Is it by your name? Grown people don't know the answer to these questions. What happens when a twelve year old...