Epinions Recent Reviews for redsox75

The Cleanest Dirty Movie Ever Made

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:33:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - I thought this looked like a nice little comedy from the Netflix archives. Jeff Bridges stars as an older guy trying to find that one get rich quick scheme that will solve all his problems. All his friends in his small town have seen, and participated,...

Follow The Code Or Get Drilled

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:08:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - Ross Bernstein is making a career about writing about the “unwritten rules” of major sports. He started with hockey, moved on to baseball and his latest one is about football. Baseball is the one I recently read which I will write about...

Everything's Bigger In Texas

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:20:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - The Big Rich by Brian Burrough (co-author of Barbarians at the Gate, a chronicle of 80s excess) is a history of the big four families of Texas oil. These families were led by Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson, Howard Hunt and Roy Cullen who each made a...

I Never Wanted To Be Away From Her

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:10:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - It has been awhile since I saw this interesting drama, but that line from it has stuck with me as I tried to find time to write this review. Grant Anderson (Gordon Pinsent) and his wife Fiona (Julie Christie) are enjoying their retirement years...

The Long Road Out of Hell: Head Goes Beyond Belief

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:06:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - A short time after I became saved I first saw the story of Brian "Head" Welch, the guitarist from the metal band Korn, who had quit the band when he found God in the depths of the depravity of the rock and roll life. Welch had become a father, but...

Bob Dylan's NYC Girlfriend Remembers A Different Time

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:49:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - I don't recall what drew me to this autobiography. I am something of a Dylan fan, but I only possess a few Cds and tapes of his material. This memoir of Suze Rotolo, Dylan's girlfriend during his early years in New York City paints a portrait...

We Have A Killer Deal For An Extra Five Bucks: The Creepy Vacancy

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:22:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - If you've ever seen the movie Twilight Zone from a generation ago, in the opening scene, Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd are in a car in the middle of nowhere and one says to the other, "do you want to see something really scary " Vacancy< b> fits that...

Once I Rented A Movie That Everyone Loved Except Me

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:06:46 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - Well, maybe not once, (I also didn't thing Little Miss Sunshine was all that funny, but it was closer to people's opinions than this one) but it seemed like a good introduction to my thoughts about this long music video. I read some of the other reviews...

Life After the Time of Cholera: Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map

Wed, 28 May 2008 21:42:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - A few months ago, I saw a good movie entitled the Painted Veil with Edward Norton and Naomi Watts (that I meant to review, but haven't yet) in which Norton's character tries to battle a severe outbreak of cholera in a remote part of China. Apparently, I...

Les Paul - Chasing Sound: The Man Who Changed Everything

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 23:27:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - This is the story of Lester Pohlfuss, an unassuming man from Wisconsin who changed the way music was recorded and played. Better known as Les Paul, this guitar innovator created the process of overdubbing music, enabling generations of musicians and...

Roberto Clemente Was A Hero For What He Did Off The Field

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:59:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - This is a story as much about a generous human being as it is about a baseball player. Roberto Clemente was both of those things. He was a tremendous baseball player possessing a remarkable combination of fielding and hitting ability. He was also...

Disturbia: Disturbia: A New "Rear Window" Or Just a Solid Thriller? Discuss.

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:28:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - What happens when a teenager sentenced to house arrest starts spying on his neighbors? Well, if you are Kale (a teenager, not a vegetable) something very wrong. He sees the quirks and foibles of his neighbors outside his windows, but sees something...

How World War III Was Averted

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:18:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - There is a certain type of job evaluation tool these days to judge how an employee is performing. It is called a 360 review since it looks at performance from every angle. DEFCON-2 could be called a 360 degree evaluation since it examines all the...

Diggers: Paul Rudd and Lauren Ambrose Can't Exhume "Diggers"

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:37:38 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - I saw this preview on the Black Snake Moan DVD and thought it looked promising. Paul Rudd stars as Hunt, a Long Island clam shucker ( aka “digger”) who aspires to get out of his town by taking photos of everyday life. His sister Gina,...

Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins Star in Fracture

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:28:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - The title really makes you want to read this review, right? Nothing really clever was coming to mind so I thought I would just give the facts, ma'am. I did have aspirations for the 10 for 10 this month, but life, as usual, gets in the way. This is a...

Savior or Dictator? The Political Odyssey of the Kingfish

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:31:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - Kingfish is the story of Huey P. Long, a politician from Louisiana who reached the national stage before his sudden end. Long initially had admirable goals, but they fell by the wayside as he acquired more and more power. Richard D. White, Jr., a...

Supernatural History

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:32:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - I have to say I was puzzled when I first saw previews for this movie. Why would Ben Stiller want to do such a movie? I then saw that Owen Wilson was also in it so I thought it might not be too bad. I was pleasantly surprised at the entertainment...

Do Computers Impair Critical Thinking? One Man's Opinion

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:21:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - Clifford Stoll was a programmer who was trying to use this pulpit to quell some of the computer hysteria that had begun to crop up at the end of the 90s when technology was touted as the way to keep students more interested in their studies. I don’t...

The First American Politician

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:13:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - To give someone the moniker I chose as the title of this review, one can be sure that Alexander Hamilton was an anomaly. In the early days of the American nation, politics was considered something of a dirty word. With his shrewd political maneuvering,...

Chains Of Love

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:41:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - When I heard about this movie, I was intrigued by the premise of a woman being chained up in a man's house for her own good. What I didn't expect was the morality tale that went along with it. Maybe not a morality tale exactly, but proof that anyone is...

Your Basic Gay Firefighter Buddy Movie

Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:11:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - Larry (Kevin James) has a problem. He is in the dangerous job of firefighter and through his own inaction after his wife's death cannot get beneficiary status for his own kids. Solution: marry his best male friend Chuck (Sandler) whom no one would...

The Original Ponzi Scheme: Charles Ponzi and Early 20th Century America

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:48:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - This fascinating book traces the ascent and quick fall of self-professed financial genius Charles Ponzi who attempted to perpetrate an enormous fraud and nearly got away with it. The book traces Ponzi’s early days in Europe. He was born in...

The Definitive Derek and the Dominos Live Collection

Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:46:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - When I started here on epinions, I could crank out music reviews like nobody’s business. Now, I am lucky if I finish 5 of them in a year. Months ago I started writing this review, at least the first section. Recently, I began to revise it after...

Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest: Wilco Unplugged And Honest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:28:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - Jeff Tweedy is the creative force behind the band Wilco. He writes almost all the songs and sings and plays guitar. Sunken Treasure chronicles a week or so of solo dates that Tweedy played on the West Coast in February of 2006. Jeff previously...

Songs In The Key Of F---Tenacious D Throws Up An Airball

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:38:29 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author redsox75 - As a young boy, all JB wanted to do was rock. He laid his hands on an acoustic guitar and a musician was born. The terrible part was he was born into a Bible loving family from Kickapoo, Missouri that didn’t appreciate his kick out the jams...