© 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-paulsavage Recent reviews written by member paulsavage en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_439664873092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Left Hand&#146s Sawtooth Ale (Longmont, Colorado) is misnamed I think. However, I&#146m not exactly sure how to name a beer that is part ale, part pilsner and even a little part stout. One thing I can say is that this is a beer that needs to be used... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439664873092 Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:24:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439664873092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439660416644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Yazoo’s Dos Perros Ale is the only ale I can recall that involves only one part of the tongue. Given this, I’m not at all sure how it creates the tastse it does. This is a very light ale, very. I don’t tend to drink major brew beers (Bass and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439660416644 Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:52:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439660416644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439459614340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Transcribing a piece of music from one instrument (piano generally but not exclusively) to orchestra is easier to pull off than taking the expanse that is an orchestral piece and shove it into one instrument (again, generally the piano but not... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439459614340 Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:33:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439459614340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439246818948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - A couple of years ago, before joining epinions, I picked up a copy of John Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith partially due to the word “violent” but mainly due to this on the front cover: “On July 24, 1984, a woman... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439246818948 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:04:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439246818948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439224405636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Paul Haggis (director, writer, and one of the producers) is a busy man for most of his significant films: Million Dollar Baby, Crash. The latest installment is In the Valley of Elah. I went into the film knowing almost nothing—I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439224405636 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:22:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439224405636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437856538244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - I look to young adult films the same way I look to young adult novels: when do the stories begin to move from the good versus evil to something where good and bad start to get a bit fuzzy around the edges? The Spiderwick Chronicles stays firmly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437856538244 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:03:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437856538244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437811187332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - I didn’t realize that Ron Oliver’s Shock to the System was part of a detective series: Donald Strachey (Chad Allen), gay detective. No gay clich&#233 unlooked, no gay stone left out of place, no dust of any kind anywhere. Paul Hale (Jared... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437811187332 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:46:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437811187332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437442612868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Due to taking up photography again after 2 decades removed, I have gone back to look at the people whose work I used to help teach me find my eye. One of my “teachers” was Sally Mann. The works that got her into so much hot water (At Twelve:... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437442612868 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:28:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437442612868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437165002372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Books of photography are difficult to review: there is typically no distinct plot; therefore, each photograph is just what we have come to expect, one image capturing one moment. So when given a book driven by theme (multiple photographers rather than... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437165002372 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:57:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437165002372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_436681412228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - I think I have always avoided doing what I’m doing now. I’m reviewing a documentary I just watched. I know I have started some immediately following but have always stepped back and started again. Daniel Karslake directed For the Bible Tells Me... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~436681412228 Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:21:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_436681412228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_436630949508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Malcolm Ingram&#146s Small Town Gay Bar is fairly pedantic and not well structured. However there is one reason to watch it all the same. The documentary uses two bars in Mississippi: Rumors in Tupelo and Crossroads (changed to Different... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~436630949508 Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:24:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_436630949508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435853102724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - To put it bluntly, Punishment Park is a political, polemic diatribe that is totally irrelevant today and was very likely so when it was made. Peter Watkins creates pseudo-documentary where a documentary film crew is given access to tribunals... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435853102724 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:23:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435853102724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435690114692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Susan Sontag wrote an essay called “Illness as Metaphor” it was inspired by her fight against breast cancer in the middle 1960s. Twenty years later she updated it with “AIDS as Metaphor” using roughly the same idea. Why start a review of a bio-pic of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435690114692 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:49:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435690114692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435603672708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - I get about 1% of my “news” from television. I became aware of Anderson Cooper by accident. I was keeping track of the Katrina aftermath (I have family in Mississippi and I live in Alabama, though not in an area directly affected), but mostly from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435603672708 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:28:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435603672708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435598954116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Serial movies present difficult problems to viewers and to reviewers. The question is whether one film in a series can be removed from that progression and make sense on its own. The Lord of the Rings does not permit watching the films in a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435598954116 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:45:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435598954116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435469848196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - The Army of Shadows (released in 1969, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville) is, off the top of my current head, unique. The film&#146s engine is a plot that relies on the audience knowing a good amount of history but the fuel that keeps it going are... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435469848196 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:20:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435469848196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435464736388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead isn’t a whodunit. The film is a consequence movie told in different chapters from different points of view. The story is somewhat interesting at best; the narrative is the reason to watch it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435464736388 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:26:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435464736388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434842209924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Allow me to put The Seventh Well into a specific context because the work is difficult to handle, but not for reasons that would immediately come to mind. We are accustomed to the horror stories of the Shoah. Where years ago we were not prepared... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434842209924 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:14:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434842209924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433945939588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Before going into the story and analysis, I have to say that you have to be prepared to watch the film twice. The special effects are the most special I can think of. The Matrix franchise was great for the time, but overdone to the extreme so it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433945939588 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:29:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433945939588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433919331972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Alice Darkness Light Darkness (Neco z Alenky, the Czech title) is apparently considered a fundamental film in the absurdist school and I cannot argue with it. It uses Alice in Wonderland as its structure; Lewis Carroll’s most famous... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433919331972 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:03:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433919331972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432656453252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Dark comedy is the hardest thing to pull off. Trying to make a sentimental piece that tugs at the heartstrings in a natural way without over doing it (Billy Eliot as opposed to The Notebook) is a breeze; the worst it can be considered is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432656453252 Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:25:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432656453252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432527412868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Since Prime Suspect is a series, much of the information not related directly to the story will be the same as I go through the series. The plot summaries and analysis will be different of course, but much of the supporting material will be... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432527412868 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:49:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432527412868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432526036612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Since Prime Suspect is a series, much of the information not related directly to the story will be the same as I go through the series. The plot summaries and analysis will be different of course, but much of the supporting material will be... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432526036612 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:30:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432526036612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431762214532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is something rare. The last two movies I reviewed (Lions for Lambs and Redacted) are protest films so topical that they already seem out of date. Algiers is so well handled, so broad... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431762214532 Wed, 28 May 2008 15:24:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431762214532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431062552196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Robert Redford&#146s Lions for Lambs is an incomplete triptych that leaves an emotional hole and an intellectual disappointment. Veteran reporter Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) interviews Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise) about a military plan... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431062552196 Thu, 22 May 2008 17:43:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431062552196?linkin_id=8003929