Epinions Recent Reviews for tipu

T-pini•n (DIFF:I): Baraka — Blessings from Fricke

Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:24:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Among many possible ways to view Baraka, Ron Fricke's nonverbal film, only one beats watching it on an open-air big screen on the greens from a beanbag, complete with in-person Fricke introduction. Setting: evening at the meticulously manicured...

T-pini•n(DIFF:II): Looking for the Limits of Love in Chopra’s Lamhe (Moments)

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:35:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - I’m no romantic. Ask any misfortunate who has spent time with me. Red roses? I worry about thorns. Candlelit dinners? I worry about fork-stabbing myself & wax burns. Valentine’s Day cards? Haven’t made any since the middle school arts nazi...

T-pini•n(DIFF:III): Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle—Lightning in an Urn

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:01:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Teetering on the brink of war against an unnamed foe, the king has ordered all-out support from his wizards & witches. Despite the royal head sorceress’s particular efforts to secure the help of star wizard Howl, he’s not showing up. A...

T-pini•n(DIFF:IV): ER Doesn’t Just Mean Clooney — A Decent Factory (See Top NOKIA Management Naked!)

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:50:10 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - So in summer 2002, Finnish giant Nokia finds itself the king of the cell phone hill. In the rarefied atmosphere of its lofty aerie, its top management can afford to put aside the anodyne issues of profits, sales forecasts, profits, asset/equity ratios,...

T-pini•n(DIFF:V): Hear the one about the suicide bomber… Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:14:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Your mother still thinks Muslim is a fabric. On the final day of the 2005 Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), I crawled out of bed criminally early (0620), swung across town in a public bus, crossed the creek on an abra (motorized wooden...

T-pini•n: Blind Faith—Dolan's Take On Religion/Dolan Takes On Religion

Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:23:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Chester Dolan must live in a black and white world. At times, his attitude mirrors that bandied about so cavalierly in the days following the 9-11 attacks: “Either you are with us, or you are with [them].” Imagine those words springing from big bad bin La...

T-pini•n: My Son and I with The Sea and I

Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:57:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - He was already waiting expectantly in bed with his thin frame hunched over his quilt-draped knees when I entered.

"Okay sport, which story do we want to read today?"

"Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie!" he yelled. "Part two...

T-pini•n: "I was rape by my fahver, had his baby at 12"—Sapphire’s Push

Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:32:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - My dear dear Miz Rain,

I been thinkin bout what I write you for days n days n days now, but now I sit down to write, I don’ know what I goan to say.

Guess I begin at time I left you all, ran way, cuz I din’ wan’ be no burden on no...

T-pini•n: Richard Zacks Mines An Underground Education, Hits Mother Lode!

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:34:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Remember? Remember how it started? Remember in fifth grade when you and your buddies flocked around that dictionary surveying the shelves from its lectern? And the librarian smiled, for he knew what was afoot—a rite of passage he had seen many...

T-pini•n: It’s a Wandafuru Raifu—KORE-EDA’s Making Memories Tonight!

Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:27:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Sometimes you just gotta take a chance.

Videocassette jacket blurbs don’t offer much in the way of useful information about what you’ll find inside. The jacket for KORE-EDA Hirokazu’s Wandafuru Raifu (1998) didn’t differ much from the...

T-pini•n: The Mezzanine Justifies Nicholson Baker’s Title—Master of Minutiae

Wed, 26 Dec 2001 05:02:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - This is going to be another of the t-pini•ns in which I put on my chameleon cap¹ and try to give readers a taste of what they can expect in whatever it is I’m yapping about. It doesn’t help that I just watched Dr. Strangelove for the first time. ...

T-pini•n: New from Watterson—Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995—is it worth it?

Tue, 25 Dec 2001 22:14:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - The fanaticism of fandom knows no reason or logic beyond its own circumvoluted jiggery-pokery that can make a straight line out of one more crooked than the average KKK Grand Wizard or even a normal fad diet ad.

Sometime around late-July I was...

T-pini•n: Seal Explores New Territory In Human Being

Tue, 25 Dec 2001 12:01:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - … there’s reason to be afraid…

Scarring childhood disease, separation from mother, child abuse, running away, living on the dole in a London council flat. And then, returning in 1990 from an extended trip throughout Asia to record...

T-pini•n: a pornographic epinion on Edward Gorey’s The Curious Sofa

Wed, 28 Nov 2001 04:39:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - One morning while I was peeling pomegranates, popping the puny pieces against my palate and staining myself purple with the juices, Rene called to propose the wildest of plans. She made it sound so exotically enticing that I just had to come.

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t-p¡n¡•n: Don’t Forget to Pack Bill Watterson’s The Days Are Just Packed in Your Library

Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:02:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Bill Watterson reminded us of a very special type of friendship when he introduced Calvin and Hobbes to the world of daily comics back in November 18, 1985. What kind of friendship do I speak of? Consider:

Calvin and Hobbes watch a bug...

t-p¡n¡•n: RUN! CALVIN & HOBBES: ATTACK OF THE DERANGED MUTANT KILLER MONSTER SNOW GOONS... gettit!

Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:27:32 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - How many days lie between November 18, 1985, the day Universal Features sneaked one of the newer daily strips on its roster into about three dozen newspapers, and, picking a date at random, June 10, 1990, by which time the aforementioned strip had surely...

t-p¡n¡•n: Watterson’s Essential Calvin and Hobbes — not as essential as food, water, shelter, love

Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:59:31 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - On November 18, 1985, the Universal syndicate introduced Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes into the newspaper dailies. Perhaps injected is a more fitting verb. The strip exceeded the artist’s and the syndicate’s expectations, with its tale of the...

t-p¡n¡•n: tipu interviews Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes

Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:40:31 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - On November 18, 1985, Bill Watterson unleashed a hyper tot and his tiger friend upon some thirty-odd newspaper cartoon pages. Stretching the envelope of the comic strip art form from the start, Watterson breathed fresh air into an industry that had...

T-pini•n: Auteuil, Depardieu, Montand in Jean de Florette — O, the Tangled Webs We Weave

Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:58:31 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Before you finish reading this, you’ll finally put a name to Her, the one living in the hidden corners of your eyes. When Lady Luck smiled upon you, She merely winked, said nothing. She conducted the train of circumstances that ran over you at the...

T-pini•n: Jean Reno in For Roseanna — More Than A Tale of Two Titties

Mon, 5 Nov 2001 02:56:30 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - Through the worst of times, to the best of times, through the haze of foolishness, to the daze of wisdom, through the moments of denial, to the moment of acceptance, through the season of senseless Pride, to the season of selfless Humility, through the...

T-pini•n: The Little Math Kit that Might — Making Math Surfing Fun

Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:05:02 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - clik

-orts news, the latest score: The Terrible Horribly Hirsute Terrorists—5400+, The Mighty Clean-shaven Coalition—842. Latest news: Coalition leader heard exclaiming, “Hey! I didn’t know we can get points for offing innocent...

T-pini•n: Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes — My reding riport, by tipu

Sun, 30 Sep 2001 03:55:25 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - reding riport 1 septimber 15

Mrs. Jon sez I shud rite evrything I think becos Ill be reding Flores for Algernon by Danil Kiss over the nekst too wiks. I toled her I dont rite no gud but she sed I shud rite like I spik its no problum.
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T-pini•n: Edward Gorey’s The Doubtful Guest — a Play In One Scene

Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:22:24 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - CAST

Lady Girl Turnip Ferret

The glow, flickering as if simulating a fireplace, leaves the front of the stage in gloom while backlighting two vague shapes...

T-pini•n: Special Report — tipu declares war on humanity over Stardust by Gaiman & Vess

Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:55:48 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - — … and Hugh Grant rescued from a transvestite prostitute just off Sunset Boulevard; “I’m giving this up and moving to a Tibetan monastery, good God Almighty!” he declared while thanking police officers.

That was other news. Now back to our...

T-pini•n: “What the Fuck, Man?” The Belgian Comedy Noir of Man Bites Dog

Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:02:02 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tipu - I rarely allow myself to get worked up. But sometimes…

Matt had told me earlier about his friend Justin in CBS’s pathetic excuse for entertainment, Big Brother. Suddenly, Justin became a ‘friend of a friend.’ I find out why—Justin got the boot...