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Blackface Romeo

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:35:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - § Overview: This is a Coen Brothers production which probably means you'll either love it or hate it. They're not afraid to adventure into new territory & their risks bring booms or...

Trust Me

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:43:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - § The con: Archer...

Go Roller, Go

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:24:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - § Style One of the most salient features of “Derby Girl” is its informal vernacular told in the first person by a 16 year old “indie-rock-loving, thrift-store-prowling, homemade-T-shirt-wearing,...

Voted Most Likely to Succeed by His Class

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:02:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - § Preview I like all kinds of movies and generally review ones that catch my fancy. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) is one of those “artsy” ones that I saw with a group, so I stretched myself to go along with...

The Death Hour

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:43:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - § Opening Network opens with an anecdote—“Did I ever tell ya that one before?” UBS news exec Max Schumacher (William Holden) is telling his friend and associate Howard Beale (Peter Finch), “I was...

Here Tomorrow, Gone Today

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:49:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - Henry is a typical kid with big plans on Christmas eve, cut short by a tragic car wreck which he miraculously survives by beaming out—sans clothes—at the last moment, to be met by his future self assuring him that it's just...

Why Be Normal?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:55:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - “Sacramento Herald” crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz (Sandra Bullock) is on top of her game as she puts together this week's puzzle. The only hint we're given to the solution is: “Seek and you shall find,” a concept...

Changing Seasons

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:33:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - 500 Days of Summer opens with a disclaimer that the events in it do not represent anything from real life, like “Jenny Beckman”—then calling her an unflattering name. Ah, I tell myself, someone is playing with us the...

Royal Folly

Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:55:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - A nervous bride (Sasha Barrese) on her wedding day, sans groom, receives a phone call from his friend Phil ominously reporting, "We [blanked] up." No explanation while we are transported 2 days earlier to see Doug (Justin Bartha) preparing for his...

Radio Done Right

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:11:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - Why Another Radio I purchased a Music Hall RDR-1 (stands for "radio done right") table radio for its warm bass from a horn loaded speaker. I'd gradually become dissatisfied with the cold adequacy of my transistor radio. I...

Hell Hath No Fury Like ...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:02:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - This is one twisted movie. I could end my review here and not leave anything out. My reader will know twisted when he sees it. What I'd like to do, though, is rehabilitate Orphan for the sake of the international adoption community who were...

To the Rescue

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:59:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - ATW (American Travel Ways) flight #282 is hijacked by terrorists—reminisc
ent
of TWA Flight 847—on 7-18-85. Delta Force is called in to free the hostages, with Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) to pull the bacon out of the fire when the...

Role Model

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:52:00 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - In viewing sequence "Braddock 2" is a prequel to "Braddock 1" with the one under review, Braddock Missing in Action III, coming last. It opens in a flurry. We're all familiar with what happens when a guy and a girl go out. The guy should...

Bandslam: All Sound Religion

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:16:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - When Will Burton (Gaelan Connell) was uprooted from his doldrums at Douglas High in Cincinnati by a sudden move with his mom to Lodi, NJ, I was reminded of my precipitous graduation from U. of Cinti in 1970 when they graduated us early because of some...

Who Am I?

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:37:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - I don't care much for doctors and hospitals, myself, but my mom was a registered nurse, and I suppose enough of it rubbed off that I can follow the plot of My Sister's Keeper. Sara Fitzgerald (Cameron Diaz) quit her job as a lawyer so she could...

Beer Gambit

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:55:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - This has probably never happened to you: You're all situated in the movie theater. Actors and actresses are looking good. The plot is unfolding as it should. It's a perfect movie experience. Except …. Some guy in front of you is having a...

Land of the Freegrazers, Home on the ...

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:49:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - The sometimes slow meandering movie "Open Range" is based on Western author Lauran Paine's novel The Open Range Men in which aging Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall), his ten-year confederate...

Wait, wait, don't stone me.

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:31:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) belong to a primitive hunter-gatherer society lost in the mists of time. Zed is a hunter and Oh is a gatherer. Zed wants the desirable but sensible Maiah who unfortunately has set her sights higher—"I'm...

Rotating the Tires

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:07:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - The Safety of Objects focuses on four suburban families (and pool guy) beginning with rotating breakfast scenes. When Julie Gold (Jessica Campbell) brings in her brother's guitar, we wonder how she gets away with scoring a mark on the back of it,...

Double Minded

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:55:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - The Man Who Haunted Himself starts with a Kinks style "Well Respected Man … get[ting] off work at 5:30," and if he doesn't "Get the same train...

Changing Times

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:51:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - With allowance for before and after footnotes, this is the story of Mr and Mrs Bridge guiding their son and two daughters into young adulthood from the heartland of America in the late 1930s and early 40s. The times have changed, according to...

Walking the Talk Together

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:57:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - Some old cronies are shooting the breeze which leads to one of them, Boris (Larry David), telling us the audience a peculiar story of his May-December marriage. Supposedly, this story will have some bearing on their cynical philosophy that "professionals...

Wedding March

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:33:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - Scrooge's attitude towards Christmas is parodied in Connor Mead's towards matrimony: "Marriage is an archaic and oppressive institution that should have been abolished ages ago." "Bah, humbug!" His being best man at his brother Paul's wedding will do...

Having a Nightmare

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:49:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - If Obsessed were a nature hike, the emphasis would be on the hike. If you managed to look out through the gap in the woods, the view would strike you speechless. Otherwise it's just more of the same. We are so conditioned to a society where...

Wheels Within Wheels

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:38:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author topreviewerman - The future just ain't what it used to be. A 1959 class at William Dawes Elementary School, Lexington, Mass., preserves in a time capsule their conceptions of the future come 50 years. The opening scenes of "Knowing" are personally embarrassing as I...