© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-voxpoptart Recent reviews written by member voxpoptart en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_250493832836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - As our local friend Amy is a tad over nine months pregnant, we're not currently making dinner plans ahead of time with her. That said, when her husband called us up and asked us to join the two of them in five hours to see a documentary movie, we said... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~250493832836 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:50:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_250493832836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_248647093892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - Man in the Moon, a 1991 movie starring Sam Waterston as the strict and taciturn 1950s-era father of a 14-year-old played by Reese Witherspoon, is not the same movie as Man _on_ the Moon, starring Jim Carrey as the comedian Andy Kaufman. The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~248647093892 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:14:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_248647093892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_248279568004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - Regina Lund is famous: only in Sweden, as far as I know, but that&#146s where she lives, and she&#146s a major TV star. This is important, since it colors some of her lyrics, but it could also be misleading. You might assume that celebrity actors on... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~248279568004 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:48:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_248279568004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_236181753476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - My song tonight, what I&#146m gonna do is (1) I&#146m gonna rock my Casio pre-sets straight up your nostrils. (2!) I&#146m gonna rock my Casio through your nose and all the way into your brain! And (3!) I&#146m gonna fuuck your brain up like it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~236181753476 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:21:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_236181753476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_235601956484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - (I start with a sports analogy, quoting the sportswriter Joe Posnanski, but I will keep it short and, I hope, painless. The only background needed to read it: the Kansas City Royals are my favorite baseball team. They are horrible, have been for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~235601956484 Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:49:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_235601956484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_235337453188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - “I believe you are sincere, and good at heart”, intones a handsome, firm-jawed, nerdily-dressed man (Jude, played by Martin Donovan) as he paces next to a blackboard. The title Surviving Desire flashes on a black screen, and a ragged... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~235337453188 Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:01:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_235337453188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_232786595460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - Last weekend, our local best-friend Cynthia starred in a wonderfully fun theater production of Moss Hart and George Kaufman's 1938 play You Can't Take It With You. Cynthia played Mrs. Sycamore, an eccentric housewife who'd been devoted to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~232786595460 Tue, 30 May 2006 13:46:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_232786595460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_231567756932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - While I think the phrase World Leader Pretend is a vivid one, anyone who swipes an R.E.M. song title for their band's name is almost begging a reviewer to play with comparisons. So I'll do that for whoever is helped &#150 but only for a while, until the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~231567756932 Wed, 17 May 2006 04:03:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_231567756932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_230683086468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - Since 1969, years before I was born, two L.A. brothers named Ron and Russell Mael have been singing harmony in fey voices, while recording clever, charming, insincere, wiseguy pop songs under the band name Sparks. They're still improving. That's an... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~230683086468 Thu, 11 May 2006 02:37:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_230683086468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_228756196996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - (" 3. The advantage of twins is&#133 a. Having a spare in case one blows out. b. Having both a control and experimental group to test out your theories on nature versus nurturing, love versus neglect and human parents versus wolf pack. c. Fooling... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~228756196996 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:09:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_228756196996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_226728775300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - It disappoints me – although it’s a risk any review-reader takes – when a movie, in this case David Cronenberg’s Spider, turns out to provoke and interest me less than the well-written... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~226728775300 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:05:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_226728775300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_221665267332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - As I've related before, the Rheostatics are my favoritest band in the whole wide world. They debuted as a pleasant folk/country band with a knack for good stories, fun harmonies, and local Canadian color. With each of their next four albums -... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~221665267332 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:17:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_221665267332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_220970585732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - Sufjan Stevens&#146s Illinois was, according to the huge cross-section of voters who make up the Village Voice&#146s annual Pazz & Jop critics&#146 poll, the 3rd best album of 2005. The Epinions Music Section voters placed Illinois... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~220970585732 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:39:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_220970585732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_219896974980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - &#147I learned when I was young, it&#146s not polite to point and stare/ But I also learned about the same time, sometimes life just isn&#146t fair/ And I learned that &#145Live and let live&#146 means one of two things: you don&#146t know, or you... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~219896974980 Mon, 6 Feb 2006 03:20:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_219896974980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_215287697028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - While Melvin Goes to Dinner is my (and my wife's) 2nd-favorite of the hundred or so movies we've seen this year &#150 I still need to tell y'all about Bully &#150 it's only fair to tell you how target-marketed to us it is. It's a movie for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~215287697028 Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:00:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_215287697028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213363035780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - I'm not a fan of voiceover openings to a movie, but I think On_Line &#150 the first sentences of which are main character John Roth speaking his first-ever online diary into a microphone &#150 was right to show confidence in its own. We fade in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213363035780 Thu, 8 Dec 2005 07:14:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213363035780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213010321028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - I should point out, first, that I'm writing this the Music Man review to be disagreeable. True, I've seen only the 2003 remake; so when I noticed that the average Epinions rating of the remake was 2.5 stars, and the average rating of the 1962... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213010321028 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:55:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213010321028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_212660948612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - &#148EVERYTHING ON THIS ALBUM IS ON PURPOSE&#148 -- Interbabe Concern liner notes. The Loud Family are my pick for the greatest pop band in the world. (Two semi-famous musicians who agree with me: Aimee Mann, and Veruca Salt&#146s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~212660948612 Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:23:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_212660948612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_208916156036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - To argue that 1988&#146s the Naked Gun was a landmark in the history of satire would be a slight exaggeration. For one thing, no it wasn&#146t. For another, it wasn&#146t even that influential in the career of its writing/directing team of Jim... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~208916156036 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:58:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_208916156036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_197265886852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - As we pan over the theater stage of Allegro non Troppo - the cleaning woman&#146s mop and bucket reverberating as in a cavern made of metal, her rug-beating stirring the air like a giant&#146s basketball in the Gym on Bald Mountain &#150 we hear... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~197265886852 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:48:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_197265886852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_196960947844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - I was born in 1973, with the last cohort of Americans to really feel the Cold War, and to know how chilling it could get; the last cohort to automatically be grateful for the jury-rigged semi-competence and chintzy special effects of Osama bin Laden and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~196960947844 Sat, 24 Sep 2005 02:38:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_196960947844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186291359364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - In some ways, I found Jonathan Safran Foer&#146s debut novel Everything is Illuminated very easy to read, and I&#146ll choose excerpts in a way that should let you decide if you agree. It was easy to read because it generally moves fast. It was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186291359364 Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:17:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186291359364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185975541380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - Since System of a Down have become &#150 bizarrely, wonderfully &#150 a mega-selling band whose singles get heavy radio play, I will mention the most obvious facts about their new album Mezmerize quickly. It&#146s a punk/ metal album. The band... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185975541380 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:28:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185975541380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185098014340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - Background (part I): Joe Jackson first came to public attention in 1979 with his Look Sharp! debut, with the hit song "Is She Really Going Out with Him?". At the time, he made snotty, slightly soul-and-blues inflected power pop in a manner... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185098014340 Fri, 3 Jun 2005 04:09:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185098014340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_184634019460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author voxpoptart - When I say that the Fiery Furnaces&#146 Blueberry Boat is a wonderful album, I mainly mean two things &#150 two things that are often treated as contradictory. (1) It is an album of breathtaking ambition, range, and scope. This is the part... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~184634019460 Sun, 29 May 2005 08:10:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_184634019460?linkin_id=8003929