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This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-spelvini Recent reviews written by member spelvini en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_492175658628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - Based on Conan Doyle's story The Musgrave Ritual, Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is another addition to the series of short features from Universal with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.  This 68-minute film from 1943 incorporates the heart of Sir Arthur... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~492175658628 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:12:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_492175658628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491977019012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - There is a line that Kristen Renton's Jennifer says "This is getting to be very... Discovery Channel for me", which makes a lot of sense in the made-for-TV movie has the kind of feeling like something that the educational TV channel would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491977019012 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:39:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491977019012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491756359300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - There's a scene in Finding Amanda where Taylor and Amanda go brothel/drug house in East Los Angeles so Amanda to pick up some drugs for a stripper friend, and during the scene Taylor is offered a variety of hip fashionable drugs all of which he declines... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491756359300 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:03:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491756359300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491294658180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - Ermanno Olmi accomplishes a rare and genuine thing in his 84-minute film I Fidanzati by casting two ordinary people to occupy his movie and achieving a view of society that could be said to be a precursor to what today we call "reality"... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491294658180 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:42:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491294658180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490724036228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - Easily one of the best of the great series of 15 short features from 1939 to 1946 with Basil Rathbone, The Scarlett Claw sets up the perfect mystery with a menu of tropes that hit perfectly in the way that director Roy William Neill applies them. ... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490724036228 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:37:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490724036228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490574941828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - By casting Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, and Will Patton, director Olatunde Osunsanmi hopes to secure a mainstream distribution for his movie The Fourth Kind but has managed to waste the talents of his actors and filmmakers, and cheap his audience, on a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490574941828 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:11:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490574941828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490121760388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - With a great crime-fighting romantic couple and a fast-paced action script set in New Orleans The Big Easy from 1986 still charms and thrills with a story about cop corruption and a great cast including Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin and Ned... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490121760388 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:12:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490121760388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489916370564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - With a number of potent changes in the slasher genre and some fascinating reversals, Sleepaway Camp is still pretty funny since its release in 1983.  This disc with commentary by director Robert Hiltzik and actress Felissa Rose is ample proof that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489916370564 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:59:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489916370564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489873444484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - With a generic story and script and average special effects Encrypt comes across as a film suffering from too little budget and uninspired casting, and the ultimate theme is muddled behind sentiment and cheesy music score.In 2068 the surface of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489873444484 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:23:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489873444484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489244561028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - In a future world where life is reduced to resemble an American Western mythological land, four characters stand off in a tale of revenge, redemption, and betrayal.  In this film written and directed by Jeff and Matthew Campagna is a quirky journey... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489244561028 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:38:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489244561028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488799833732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - The screen adaptation of David Ignatius' novel Body of Lies, set in Iraq and Jordan, is a cracker-jack action story that will keep you watching even as you may lose track of who is doing what terrors to whom.  This flurry of gunplay and espionage... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488799833732 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:49:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488799833732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488252018308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - If ever there was a film that celebrated casual sex it is Never on Sunday a 91-minute comedy from 1960 directed by the exiled Jules Dassin and starring the unflappable Melina Mercouri as a tough, independent-minded woman in Greece who openly has sexual... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488252018308 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:31:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488252018308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488155352708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - Peep "TV" Show directed by Yutaka Tsuchiya from 2004 is a video feature combining images of pedestrians in Japan in public spaces and combines them with a story of an Internet show that broadcasts a message about cultural sensitivity to an interactive... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488155352708 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:45:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488155352708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486764940932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - Experiment In Terror is a by-the-numbers film noir thriller, and director Blake Edwards plies his style too heavily.  From the start of the film with Henry Mancini's heavy-played bass, indicating suspense to come, one can almost see Peter Sellers... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486764940932 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:07:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486764940932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486740692612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - In a departure from his usual good-guy persona, Clint Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier who finds himself in what he thinks is an enviable situation only to discover he may be trapped by his own self-serving egotism.During the Civil War... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486740692612 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:54:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486740692612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486731189892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - With a bravura performance in a role that would serve to reaffirm Clint Eastwood in the Western genre, Coogan's Bluff has the star carry his cowboy persona from his Spaghetti Westerns into post-modern-day Manhattan in pursuit of a bail jumper from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486731189892 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:09:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486731189892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486621810308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - The Passenger is a mystery story about a man's actions when he steals the identity of someone and what happens to his life while trying to come to terms with his own shortcomings.  With excellent performances by Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486621810308 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:47:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486621810308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486616370820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - The Eiger Sanction based on the 1972 thriller novel by Rodney William Whitaker, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood in 1975 is a documentary view of real mountain climbing mixed in with an exciting story of espionage and murder.Dr. Jonathan... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486616370820 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:24:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486616370820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486376312452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - Art School Confidential is a dead pan look at a young artist who makes his way through Art College and all the learning experiences he must endure.  Tinged with wry humor about art school and loaded with assorted stereotypes the movie has a few... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486376312452 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:50:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486376312452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486371593860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - With a huge cast and a simple story that incorporates a diverse level of subplots The Towering Inferno, coming in at 165 minutes still pulls us in with the story of a building fire and those trapped who try to escape to safety.  Taking Oscar wins... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486371593860 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:59:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486371593860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484938387076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - Satan Met a Lady, a Warner Brothers film from 1936 is a fascinating adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon into an unusual mixture of mystery and comedy and actually has several funny moments but veers so far from the source material... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484938387076 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:58:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484938387076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484237086340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - The pure pleasure of watching three actors at the top of their game prancing through this film still delights with a sense of freshness.  The disguised Curtis and Lemmon attempting to make time with Sugar Kane and themselves being pursued by male... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484237086340 Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:27:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484237086340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484215983748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - What starts out feeling like and upbeat and pithy comedy, Elegy turns out to be a maudlin and sad commentary on love and life and the mystery of who we are and what our purpose in life is supposed to be. The nubile graduate students who sign up... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484215983748 Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:19:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484215983748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483313028740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - "Women in Film Noir" is a collection of essays on the nature and function of women as characters in film narratives.  Edited by E. Ann Kaplan, and published in 1998 by the British Film Institute the book is an intriguing study of many classic film... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483313028740 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:29:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483313028740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483289042564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author spelvini - Office Killer, written by Elise MacAdam, is the first feature film directed by Cindy Sherman, best known for clever references to classic films in her still photography and utilizes some excellently placed commercial visuals to joke on the slasher film... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483289042564 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:55:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483289042564?linkin_id=8003929