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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-swmckewon Recent reviews written by member swmckewon en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_475482918532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a rancid, fawning piece of Baby Boomer nostalgia in a post-Boomer era, a redo of “Forrest Gump,” which, not surprisingly, was written by the very same Eric Roth who penned this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475482918532 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:22:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475482918532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474787188356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Tom Twyker isn’t the first director to put lipstick on a pig of a script, but he doesn’t manage to hide the ham any better than most in “The International.” The German craftsman lards up this globe-trotting thriller with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474787188356 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:23:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474787188356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474330402436?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - There is a play staged in the first act of “Revolutionary Road,” but the viewer never glimpses a scene of it. Rather, we see a curtain closing on the alarmed face of Kate Winslet, her eyes doubtful and filling with tears, and it is to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474330402436 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:53:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474330402436?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473311841924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Infused with near-biblical power, Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" is a straight hard drink of masculine theory, a journey into the world's dark, vengeful crevices, where the strong eat the weak, yet are not spared by God, and pay dearly for the feast... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473311841924 Tue, 9 Jun 2009 02:35:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473311841924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473028071044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - In Michael Mann's "Miami Vice," the tropical skies flash with lightning, but never burst with rain. Why is that? The answer lies in the sensitive high definition camera technology - nicknamed the Viper - Mann and cinematographer Dion Beebe use to film... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473028071044 Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:03:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473028071044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473027612292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Imagine a movie about JFK that ignores the Cuban Missile Crisis, his assassination, every important speech he ever made and every decisive action he ever took, and instead focuses solely on backyard football games, quickie affairs and all the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473027612292 Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:55:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473027612292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472979246724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - "Taken" is essentially two lines of dialogue - "I will find you. And I will kill you." - stretched out into a 90-minute film. The speaker of this line finds his man. And, boy, does he kill him. And then he finds more people and kills them, too. And... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472979246724 Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:03:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472979246724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468050022020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Parents screw kids up. Maybe a lot, maybe a little, and in every way imaginable, but it happens, just as surely as parents enrich and instruct their sons and daughters. Noah Baumbach's fictional memoir, "The Squid and The Whale," knows that, and treats... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468050022020 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:13:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468050022020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468044451460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - "The Da Vinci Code" is a buttoned-up bore, a prestige picture so prude most scenes could have staged at the community playhouse. Director Ron Howard, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and every single actor colors completely inside the lines of Dan Brown's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468044451460 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:06:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468044451460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_467675483780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - “Quantum of Solace” is the feature-length movie version of a perfume ad in Vanity Fair, a bunch of faces (pouty, fetching, ruggedly handsome, ageless or whatever indigent look Jeffrey Wright is after) assuming the position for the camera... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~467675483780 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:57:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_467675483780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433282649732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Fracture is one of the stupider movies in recent memory, a turkey from the legal thriller dime store, awash in misanthropy to boot. As it luxuriates in its grim, unhappy band of anti-heroes, pausing occasionally to acknowledge its absurdity with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433282649732 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:13:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433282649732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433067036292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - American Gangster teams Ridley Scott, Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe for a film that once may have coaxed explosive, career-making work from them. Now it seems like little more than a line in the Internet Movie Database. Funny, how quickly it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433067036292 Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:20:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433067036292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431899053700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - A faceless, sweaty man wandering in a dark swamp. A juke joint, alive with humidity and the fervor of promised deliverance. An impassioned-yet-disciplined church service, complete with a DuBois-style call to manhood. A bus journey through the night, the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431899053700 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:07:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431899053700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431328562820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Let's be honest about "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull": Magnificence was not in its destiny. That's not so much a criticism as a conclusion based on evidence: It's been in the works for nearly a decade, shuffling through three... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431328562820 Sun, 25 May 2008 02:06:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431328562820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431184318084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - About two-thirds into the creepy, synthetic "Reservation Road," a divorced father (Mark Ruffalo) and his son (Eddie Alderson), both self-described Boston Red Sox diehards, watch game three of the 2004 World Series. Boston swept the St. Louis Cardinals en... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431184318084 Fri, 23 May 2008 18:48:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431184318084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431178681988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - "Juno" is a lip-glossed fairytale, a fraud, and, frankly, the kind of movie white people make for other white people. The aim is ostensibly to create a "Yay Grrl!" anthem - all kinds of women are smart, cool, and morally charged, except the ugly ones and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431178681988 Fri, 23 May 2008 17:27:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431178681988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430091243140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Perched stupidly between an austere prestige picture and a tempestuous bodice ripper, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is little more than a posturing goof ball that happens to feature a semi-decent turn from Natalie Portman. Why this movie was made, and the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430091243140 Thu, 15 May 2008 01:20:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430091243140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430090718852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - "The Darjeeling Limited" is a flop, a retread, a bore, and another sign that writer/director Wes Anderson can't press every character and story into his rigid template of cool detachment and visual irony. It's not even disappointing, really; you could... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430090718852 Thu, 15 May 2008 01:15:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430090718852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430088097412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - "Rendition" is comfort food for liberals, stacking the odds against the use of torture so significantly that, in its own arrogance, it probably makes a case for it. These kind of simpleminded rants are perfect fodder for a world of clever, contrary... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430088097412 Thu, 15 May 2008 01:09:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430088097412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430087900804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Give director Francis Lawrence this much credit for his work in "I Am Legend:" He knew how to stick a sword in its belly. The movie is all kinds of ridiculous - in part because it holds its cards practically *inside* the vest for the opening act - and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430087900804 Thu, 15 May 2008 01:05:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430087900804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430087507588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - A slovenly Brecht scholar and his sorta-playwright sister watch their estranged father die in Tamara Jenkins' "The Savages," which never quite decides if it'd like to be a satire, Bergman-style claustrodrama or one of those high-end, visually static art... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430087507588 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:58:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430087507588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_358305468036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swmckewon - Death. Taxes. The rise, and inevitable fall, of a movie franchise. Finally, the actuaries caught up with Peter Parker and his friendly neighborhood alter-ego. After two terrific installments that ranked among the best comic book movies ever made,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~358305468036 Sun, 6 May 2007 21:27:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_358305468036?linkin_id=8003929