 |
|
 |
             |
|
|
||
New Regular Reviews in Media |
|
  |
|
| 326-350 of 813 reviews: 12/23 to 1/6 | Page 1 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... 33 | PreviousNext | |||||||
|
|||||||||
| Product Rating | Regular Reviews | Sorted by Date Written |
Sort by Review Rating |
||||||
|
Grave Peril seems to be Harry Dresden's middle name by pestyside Pros: Characters, Vampires, Darker than first two books, Storyline, Pace
Cons: Harry being constantly at risk became somewhat cloying, Michael became slightly preachy Harry Dresden seems to always be in grave peril while either attempting to regain his strength and wizardry, or fending off demons and vampires. Things are only slightly different in the third installment of the Dresden Files, Grave Peril, ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Needed More Than Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust by carstairs38 Pros: Voice work and animation echo the original well
Cons: Story echos the original too much I've got to admit, I have always been curious to see Disney's Return to Neverland. I mean, I have always loved Peter Pan. But the story looked a little too familiar to me, so I didn't rush out to ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
A Late, Great French Noir Starring Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo by Stephen_Murray Pros: Lino Ventura, young Jean-Paul Belmondo; Ghislain Cloque's cinematography
Cons: too long Along with making a number of great Jean-Pierre Melville movies available on DVD (following restoration and theatrical re-released by Rialto), Criterion Editions has made a marvelous print of the first film directed by Claude Sautet (1924-200). Sautet ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Nothing Very New in this History of the New England Patriots by cbaker8887 Pros: Always fun to read about your favorite team.
Cons: Nothing that hasn't already been said elsewhere. There are many books now available detailing the history of the New England Patriots. Having read many of them I find that nobody has really come up with anything new to say. The typical "stories of" books essentially tell the same tales and ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Disappointing adaptation of Nine the Musical by momooveez Pros: Cinematography
Penelope Cruz was great as tacky Carla The "staging" in Guido's mind Cons: The casting The absence of many musical numbers (including "NINE"!) I went to see this movie because I was familiar with the show. I love the songs and the story. I was surprised to see so much of the story either omitted or twisted around with different meaning.First of all, do not look for the TITLE ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Helpful |
||||||
|
The Bored Identity by jsommersby Pros: Location shooting.
Cons: Bland hero; overly mechanical and enervating. In light of the awesome critical praise having been reaped upon the spy thriller The Bourne Identity by some reviewers I respect, I expected more going in than a routine, by-the-numbers spy thriller – which is exactly what I got. The film is ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
xxxxer's Best of the Decade: SONGS ABOUT LEAVING by Carissa's Wierd by xxxxer Pros: Beautiful arrangements; great lyrics; it's consistently fantastic
Cons: It would probably be too sad, depressing, and intense for many listeners On this last day of the 2000's, I thought I'd review a record that I believe is the best work of the decade. It's not a popular choice, but I think to certain people, this album would be about as good as modern music could get. So, I present ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Re-Imagining Samurai Cinema: Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi by Mike_Bracken Pros: Kitano is fantastic in front of and behind the camera.
Cons: The CG gore looks fake and I missed Joe Hisaishi's classic soundtrack compositions. Most critics tend to describe Takeshi Kitano's eleventh film as something of a departure for the filmmaker. I suppose, in a way, it is-most western audiences seem to only be familiar with Kitano's stoically violent yakuza (Japanese gangster) movies and ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Diary of a German Housewife in a Sink of Despond by Stephen_Murray Pros: cast
Cons: depressing and tedious Watching it, I thought that "Angst vor der Angst" (Fear of Fear, 1975, written and directed by Rainer Maria Fassbinder) had the conventional camera setups of a TV movie, and, in fact learned that it was shot as one (as was the supposed Fassbinder ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Zola Portrayal of his Friends Paul Cezanne and Edouard Manet in unflattering-light by Stephen_Murray Pros: Zola's self-portrait
Cons: Zola's condescension to Cezzane, Manet, and (I think) Monet It is difficult to evaluate the novel by Émile Zola (1840-1902) that began to be serialized in 1885 as a novel. The obvious slur: that The Masterpiece is not a masterpiece is undercut by knowing that Zola called his roman à clef ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Beevor's Stalingrad is an engrossing account of the landmark World War II battle by alexdg1 Pros: Great narrative. Excellent presentation. Fine analysis.
Cons: None In 1987, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and four before the fall of the Soviet Empire, I had a nine-month long pen pal friendship with a Russian engineer named Vladimir Rylov.Before we ceased to exchange letters (I don't know why; ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson in Their Own Words by cbaker8887 Pros: Larry Bird and Magic Johnson tell their own story.
Cons: None in particular. When the Game Was Ours tells the real story behind the rivalry between Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, the two marquee National Basketball Association (NBA) players of the 1980's. The rivalry of these two great players revived a moribund ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
A Black Girl Growing Up in the Gothic, Adulterous South by Stephen_Murray Pros: Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson, Vondie Curtis-Hall; music; cinematography
Cons: pace, structure Actress-turned director Kasi (pronounced as "Casey" is ) Lemmons's 1997 debut film, "Eve's Bayou" is an atmospheric Southern Gothic. The original Eve for whom an African American town in Louisiana was named was a slave who saved her massah's life. He ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Vacation Staycation by momofmichael Pros: Dependable and reliable stories of high quality
Cons: No scene variance, I felt like I was trapped in the basement for a weekend My three and a half year old likes the Henry and Mudge series. We've also read "Henry and Mudge in the Green ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Helpful |
||||||
|
Doyle Is Not At His Best Here by gamblin_man Pros: Interesting read
Cons: Very little valuable information Doyle Brunson is the best known poker player still at the tables today. He began the era of teaching poker play with his seminal book, Super System, written back in 1979. In the early 2000s he leant his name to a new online poker site and began actively ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Growing Up Black in the "Rust Belt" by Stephen_Murray Pros: S. Epatha Merkerson, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, music
Cons: none for me I remembered many of the characters from Ruben Santiago-Hudson's play "Lackawanna Blues" in which (in 2002) I saw him play all twenty-one parts. The play and the film made of it are his memoirs of the boardinghouse-keeper who was his surrogate mother, ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Screen Adaptation of Harlen Coben's "paranoid thriller" by Stephen_Murray Pros: construction/plot, François Cluzet, Nathalie Baye
Cons: ? Adapted from a Harlan Coben novel by writer-director(-actor) Guillaume Canet Ne le Dis à Personne (Tell No One, 2006) features Kristin Scott Thomas speaking seemingly flawless French, though not in the leading role as in ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
J. Michael McCarthy's Fun and Thoroughly Unique SORE LOSERS by xxxxer Pros: A twisted, completely insane flick that's enjoyable across the board
Cons: Not designed for the overly serious audience Through the years, I've happened upon some pretty strange pieces of cinema. Most of these I can trace back to the first time I saw Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man, which at the time was (and still is) one of the strangest films I've ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
xxxxer's Album of the Year: PSYCHIC CHASMS by Neon Indian by xxxxer Pros: Thirty minutes of catchy keyboard-driven indie rock
Cons: Music may inspire the listener to enjoy him/herself A few years ago, I was at the record shop every week picking up a couple of the new releases. I considered myself to be hip to the game of indie music, having long abandon any hope for popular radio to actually play anything that I would ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
A pointless remake, badly executed by rmurray847 Pros: Walsh and Ward are okay.
Cons: The two younger stars are dreadful. Bad editing and lighting. I hate to start a review with an admission of guilt, but I have to admit that I agreed to see a bargain showing of THE STEPFATHER to placate my bored daughter without any expectations that the film would be decent. So I didn’t exactly have an ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
SHERLOCK HOLMES Naked and in Love. (With Adler or Watson?) by talyseon Pros: Action-packed movie with a plot by Arthur_Conan_Doyle, and_a_cast from Batman. Robert Downey Jr. Naked.
Cons: Irene Adler was cheapened. Holmes and Watson never kissed. Sherlock Holmes (2009) Directed by Guy Richie.Sherlock Holmes: You've never complained about my methods before. Dr. John Watson: I've never complained! When have I ever complained about you practicing the violin at three in ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Witness The Heartbeat Of The Marine Corps by coldsteel7 Pros: Excellent attention to detail. Moving. True story. Powerful writing. Compelling imagery.
Cons: A couple of bumpy transitions, redundant imagery seemed to be used as filler. Anyone who has seen Platoon has witnessed the gritty exterior personality of the Marine Corps Drill Instructor. That depiction was eerily accurate. Taking Chance takes an equally eerie look inside the soft spot that Marines ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Prodigy at work by BBailey182 Pros: Good access into a rather unique athletic situation.
Cons: Mostly for those with an interest in running. Star or comet?That was the question about runner Alan Webb during his freshman year at the University of Michigan back in 2001-02. Webb came in to that season as the most heralded high school miler since Jim Ryun, running a 3:53.43 the ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
2009 Power/Progressive Metal Review by porterwake Here is my annual Epinions Metal Review:2009 Reviews:#1. Pantommind: Lunasense - ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
|
Huh? Good, but holes by dolphinboy Pros: Pace, action, good central characters
Cons: Please see the list, some minor and a few major flaws This is a children's book, aimed at children ages about eight through ten. The three main characters are Trent, a turtle; Mina, a kitten; and Jesse, a squirrel. The villain is a cat named Vane. The tale revolves around the three friends, Trent, ...
Read the full review
|
Dec 31 '09 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
||||||
| 326-350 of 813 reviews: 12/23 to 1/6 | Page 1 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... 33 | PreviousNext | |||||||
 Go Back 2 Weeks
|
Subscribe to More Reviews Get the RSS Feed:  - Add to My Yahoo!:  - Add to Google Homepage:  |
|
Help | Member Center | Message Boards | Site Rules | User Agreement | Privacy Policy | Site Index | Topic Index About Epinions | Careers | Contact Epinions | Advertising
Epinions | Shopping.com | Rent.com | Free Classifieds | Price Comparison UK
Epinions.com periodically updates pricing and product information from third-party sources, |
© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc.