4VBNQ2Y)SHyw~~_6.JPG?set_id=89040003C1) | Good, but Lite 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
This DVD is part of a series analyzing well known significant battles, this one assaying the final turning point for Germany in its WWII war with the Soviet Union. It's long on personalities involved, bet ... read full review |
ySBRO-sdr(8g~~_6.JPG?set_id=89040003C1) | Perhaps too Real 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
The Bell Jar was written largely as autobiographical, the character Esther, like Sylvia Plath, bedeviled by depression. At the book's beginning I thought I was going to be in for a female version of F. Sc... read full review |
jkM7Pw~~_6.JPG?set_id=89040003C1) | Within The Baseball Machine 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Those casting this movie did a great job in selecting actors who looked like and portrayed these two great Yankees. Billy Crystal understands both the glory and the limitations of the game and could have focuse... read full review |
 | Quaint, but still innovative 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Walt Disney was a cinematic visionary, and rarely receives credit for that vision. This almost-ancient wedding of animation and music was groundbreaking in its day. Strangely, it seems limited and dated now, co... read full review |
 | A Real Western Moment 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Peckinpah. Kristofferson. Coburn. Dylan songs. The legendary and complicated relationship of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. The truth of this story is lost in the gunsmoke of the past, but Peckinpah's inte... read full review |
 | Scorcese and the Rock Story 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Scorcese is clearly a child of the Sixties and loves his rock. He senses an epic American/Canadian story in this retrospective on The Band's career, but it never quite comes alive in this documentary. Stil... read full review |
 | Melding the Sixties 1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
At the time of this film's release, Peace and Music was still a clarion call of a generation, and the music, the film's verite, its judicious editing, made it one of the best portrayals of the Sixties... read full review |
 | Waiting to be Carried Away It's hard to critique a Pulitzer winner - you sound like you've been eating sour grapes if you're a writer, which I am. But any criticism I may have offer here barely register in comparison to wh... read full review |
 | Peering Inside Her World Brooks' poems here are deceptively simple. They are steeped in traditional poetic technique, display humor, especially of the ironic variety. Her poetry opens a door for the rest of us to peer into the wor... read full review |
 | Staying Power Friedman's self-proclaimed classic establishes him as the prototypical Libertarian. He takes classical liberalism a bit too far in such ludicrous postures as professional organizations inhibit progress and... read full review |