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This movie doesn't kill, it just wounds slightly

Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:35:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - I have been patiently waiting to see this film. It stars one of my favorite actors, a star who defines his generation in films. A brilliant actor, yet underappreciated by the critics. Maybe because you can never see him acting. He makes it look so real...

A Story Ripped From Today's Headlines!

Tue, 27 May 2003 03:49:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - No, you didn't stumble into a review of "Law and Order" by mistake. I'm just borrowing their oft-used (and overused) tagline as my title because I think this is a very timely movie. But before I step up on that soapbox of mine, let's talk a bit about...

The Matrix Reloaded: Shooting Blanks?

Mon, 19 May 2003 06:01:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - "The Matrix Reloaded" made about $93 Million in it's opening weekend. A very worthy achievement, but falling somewhat short of the record breaking high expectations many people had for it. And I find that to be very fitting, because the same is true of...

Doing It to the Indians Yet Again

Sun, 7 Jul 2002 03:27:39 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - "Windtalkers" is a film about the incredible contributions made by the Navajo during the Pacific campaigns in World War II. It is a movie about the code that was developed from the Navajo language that the Japanese could not crack. It is an uplifting...

A Royal Sting

Tue, 28 May 2002 02:25:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Things are seldom what they seem out there in the real world. The streets are full of con men and hustlers and thieves, just waiting to pluck the unsuspecting sucker. You must always keep on your toes and a step or two ahead of everyone else. But taking...

Sleeping Is The Enemy

Tue, 28 May 2002 01:30:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - It is a cold, stark world out there. Detective Will Dormer (Al Pacino) knows this. But he is about to find that nowhere is it colder and starker than in Nightmute, Alaska, where the sun never sets on the bright, white wintery town.

Dormer...

Sleeping with the Double Jeopardy

Tue, 28 May 2002 00:39:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Have you seen the newspaper ads for this film? The tagline reads "Everyone has a limit." Yeah, and "Enough" pushed me far enough past mine. Talk about your truth in advertising.

I was an idiot, I know. I normally wouldn't rush out to a film...

The Importance of Being Faithful

Mon, 27 May 2002 23:33:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - One of my favorite lines written for the stage in the last 25 years or so is from Ira Levin's "Deathtrap". Sidney has just finished reading a play a student of his sent for his opinion. It is good. Really good? Sidney's wife wants to know. "It's so good...

All for One, and One for Eleven!- a Musketeer Write-Off

Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:41:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Okay, there were only three Musketeers (at least for now), but there are eleven of us in this Musketeer Write-Off that teskue has organized. My thanks to her for inviting me to join this group. Please check out the list at the end of my review.
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All You Need Are Cliches

Mon, 18 Feb 2002 04:40:47 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Sometimes the very best of intentions goes awfully wrong. Sometimes, in films, so far wrong that you sit there in a darkened theater wondering what in the world ever got a group of talented people to agree to make such an awful film. Surely not that...

The Road to Hell

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:58:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - The best man that I have ever known in my life, my Grandfather, would often tell me as I was growing up that we are put on this earth to help those who need our help. Another wise man once said that "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." This...

Count on Adventure!

Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:38:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Marseilles, France. February, 1815. Edmond Dantes is a young man who life has blessed. At the age of 20, he has all he could want in this world. A beautiful fiancee named Mercedes. He was the First Mate of the merchant ship Pharaon, with the respect of...

Hate Kate, Like Leopold

Fri, 28 Dec 2001 06:00:09 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - In 1876, Leopold (insert very many middle names) Montbattan, Duke of Albany, is attending the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. There he sees Stuart, doing something strange with a small handheld device. (A camera, but, of course, Leopold doesn't know...

Quick! Find a Cure!

Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:14:09 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - If you are familiar with my writings on this site, you can safely assume that I am a big movie fan. After all, before this review, all but 11 of my 76 articles have been movie reviews.

I am also an avid Academy Award follower. I get up way...

Vote This "Survivors" Off Your Schedule

Sun, 9 Sep 2001 00:57:10 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Casey ("Good Will Hunting", "Chasing Amy", "To Die For") Affleck. Wes ("American Beauty", "The Claim") Bentley. Eliza ("Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") Dushku. Angela ("Zero Effect", TV's "Providence", British TV's...

Bursting the Bubble of Good Taste

Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:31:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - This has been quite a weekend for politically incorrect humor. Between "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and "Bubble Boy", there has to be something to offend practically everyone. And I like that in a film!

In these times, satire and...

In Space, No One Can Hear You Snore

Mon, 27 Aug 2001 05:03:37 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars". Do we really need his name in the actual title of the film? Is that so we don't confuse it with, say, Rob Reiner's "Ghosts of Mars"? Or even with "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mississippi" ? Though that might be an...

Curses! I'm Feeling Jaded!

Sun, 26 Aug 2001 04:34:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Well, maybe I'm not feeling exactly "jaded". But Woody Allen wasn't thoughtful enough to call his latest film "The Curse of the Bored Scorpion", so that will have to do.

The time is 1940- the era of screwball Hollywood comedies. And how does...

View Askew Adieu

Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:54:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - This film is filled with sexist humor, racist humor, fat jokes, drug jokes, fart jokes and anti-gay humor. Of the two films I saw today, this was the slightly less mature of the pair- and the other one was "American Pie 2"! (Beginning to sound like a...

"Rain Down Hell"

Sat, 26 May 2001 17:08:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Okay, so I stole my title from last May's blockbuster film, "Gladiator". But, trust me, the line really fits the Pearl Harbor attack, the incredible 35 minute sequence that this film is built around. Unfortunately, most of that building is done with...

Call me when the film's complete

Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:21:50 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - "Town and Country"- what images do those words produce? Wealth? Prestige? A car? A magazine? To me, a shopping center with a movie theater that I used to go to. And I must say that the Town & Country theater would be the perfect place to have booked...

Oh, Do Forsake Me ,Oh My Darlin'!

Sun, 29 Apr 2001 16:39:11 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - "The Forsaken" was released by Screen Gems, and if ever a film wasn't a "screen gem", this is that film!

It begins with a naked, blood-covered girl in a shower, with very quick edits and flashes of bloody deeds accompanied by overly loud...

"Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream."

Sun, 15 Apr 2001 03:13:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - In conclusion, I strongly recommend "Memento" to the serious filmgoer's out there. It is a very intelligent film, well acted with a strong script and direction. I plan to see it again, to see if knowing what I now know changes my perception of the film...

A Midsummer Night's High School

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:52:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Did you ever just stumble into a film you don't know too much about and find it is much better than you expected? That's what I felt when I saw "Get Over It", the latest high school romantic comedy.

This is an impressive sophomore effort...

3000 Minutes to Graceland

Mon, 5 Mar 2001 04:37:13 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zenda - Kevin Costner and Kurt (TV's "Elvis") Russell head a group of Elvis impersonators robbing a Las Vegas casino that is hosting an Elvis convention. That is a good idea. Did anyone connected to this film ever read anything beyond that one sentence before...