Epinions Recent Reviews for stonemirror

It Coulda Been a Contender...

Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:12:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - The SV-SD75 had the clear potential to be the coolest MP3 player around, bar none. It's amazingly tiny, yet extremely functional. It's perhaps two-thirds the size of a deck of cards, and stores the music on a Secure Digital card which is literally the...

Loving the Peculiar...

Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:56:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - Fortean Times is to magazines like Fate like the New York Times is to the Weekly World News: it treats its subject matter seriously, yet skeptically. The subject matter is, generally speaking, the sort of thing that raises...

I _Really_ Love My Vulcan!

Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:03:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - When my wife finally broke down and allowed me to get her a cell phone, I decided to take the opportunity to upgrade my V3620 "Vader" (which I've reviewed elsewhere) to a v.8160 "Vulcan".

The Vader is a great phone,...

The Tin Man and His Heart

Thu, 15 Jun 2000 01:58:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - The theme of the machine who wishes to become a man, no matter what the cost, is an old one, and often told: L. Frank Baum's Tin Woodsman, the replicants of Bladerunner, the Terminator, and the eponymous Iron Giant are all incarnations of...

A Wonderful Tribute to a Very Funny Guy

Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:44:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - In Man on the Moon, Jim Carey does what would, at first, seem the impossible: he so thoroughly takes on the persona of Andy Kaufman that it's, at times, difficult to remember that they're two different people.

Kaufman, a terrifically...

The World's Longest Comic Book

Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:35:36 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - What can one say about Atlas Shrugged? This book is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, and is routinely described as "the most philosophically challenging book of all time". Well, that may or may not be, but it's without doubt the book...

A Must-Have For Heads Fans

Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:09:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, a documentary collaboration with the Talking Heads, is certainly one of the best live-music movies ever made. Due to the limitations of the LP format (You remember LPs, don't you?), the original soundtrack...

Be an Individual, Just Like Me!

Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:55:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - It seems like everybody, at some point in late adolescence or early adulthood, has the questionable fortune of stumbling across The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged, the most popular of Ayn Rand's thousand-page, illustration-free...

I Love My Vader!

Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:57:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - I was persuaded to buy a cell phone about three years ago when a change in job responsibilities dictated that I be "on call". Given the choices, a cell phone made more sense to me than a pager. I had originally bought a StarTAC for a couple of...

A Serial Killer and Then Some

Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:26:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - A serial killer is on the loose in South Africa, a particularly nasty one. He kills his victims as he makes love to them, and he picks them with apparent indiscrimination, male, female, young, old. He takes souvenirs. What the policeman in pursuit...

A Well-Designed Mini-SUV

Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:44:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - I owned my RAV/4 for close to three years before recently replacing it. I was originally looking for something that would be reasonably practical while still being fun to drive on my relatively lengthy commute. The RAV/4 was an excellent choice.
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Words (Almost) Fail Me

Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:19:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - From the very first moments of _The Matrix_, a spectacular special effects sequence in which one of the main characters completely, and unexpectedly, demolishes the team of policemen sent to capture her, I was hooked.

Like _Dark City_ the...

Waking From the Dream

Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:54:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - A man wakes up in a strange room with no idea who he is. He is in a city of unending night and finds himself pursued by a host of strange, bald, black-clad aliens, intent on orchestrating his demise. From this point, _Dark City_ spirals into a nightmare...

Don't Be Afraid, It's Just an SUV...

Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:27:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - The VehiCROSS is one of the stranger-looking vehicles you're liable to see on the road (modulo the number of Corbin Sparrows you have in your area). To say the styling is "aggressive" would be a terrific understatement. This is one of the...

A Decade Too Late, and Several Dollars Too Short

Thu, 1 Jun 2000 03:22:41 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - Brett Easton Ellis' brand-conscious psychotic and investment banker, Patrick Bateman, finally makes it to the big screen almost a full decade after the publication of the controversial novel. Unfortunately, the intervening years have taken much of the...

A Theological Hoot!

Wed, 31 May 2000 22:02:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - I'd missed _Dogma_ in the theaters, and I've been waiting patiently for it to come out on DVD. It was well worth the wait.

_Dogma_ follows the quest of Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), an abortion-clinic employee who is recruited by the Metatron,...

Pixar Does It Again!

Wed, 31 May 2000 11:10:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - The current Pixar/Disney production, _Dinosaur_, is a real treat, albeit possibly not one for _all_ ages. If you're not under the age of seven and easily frightened, this is a terrific film.

The hero, an iguanadon named Aladar, has been raised...

L. Ron Hubbard's Revenge

Wed, 31 May 2000 10:47:07 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - It was instructive for me to see Battlefield: Earth, if only because it reminded me very clearly why the original novel was the only work by Scientology's progenitor that I ever read.

The plot, such as it is, involves a...

Whaddaya expect? It's a _TV show_...

Wed, 31 May 2000 10:24:40 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - I would certainly never criticize the look of any of John Woo's film, especially not now that Hollywood has determined to throw real money at him. MI:2 is no exception. The visuals are stunning and the most high-intensity action shots can...

The Compleat Sports Car

Thu, 25 May 2000 05:07:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stonemirror - I loved the look of the TT at first sight. The lines are exceptionally clean, and it's one of the only cars I've ever seen which could be said to have a unifying theme. The TT is a collection of circles within circles within circles, from the endlessly...