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January - June 1996: The Early Days


  Visitor: Bob Evered
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
 Location: Wisconsin - USA
     Date: 1996-06-28 06:03:00
Comments: Great review of "Fargo" which I really enjoyed and wanted to know if anybody else did. My better half didn't like it at all and thought I was wierd because I did. Too much violence for her I guess. Well now I know that I'm not alone. Thanks
  Visitor: alan hahn
Reference: Net Search
 Location: Massachusetts, usa
     Date: 1996-06-25 20:57:00
Comments: was looking for a review of the movie Zulu. but thanks anyway and i'll be back.
  Visitor: Sherry Thurner
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
     Date: 1996-06-23 16:43:00
Comments: I found you through Garrison Keillor's "Writers Almanack" site. I only read your Fargo review, but found that we agree on the film's merits.
  Visitor: Paul Plante
Reference: WWW Search Tool
  WebSite: Paul Plante - The Chicago Dispatch
  Contact: pplante244@aol.com
     Date: Saturday - 22/Jun/96 - 20:23:03
Comments: I was looking for a synopsis of the film so I could link to it. I use my home page to communicate with friends in Massachusetts (I am in Chicago). I recently saw this film in Chicago at the Petrillo Music Shell, outdoor in Grant Park. The score was played live by the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, David Lockington conducting. The live music added significantly to this fine film. thank you for the fine synopsis.
  Visitor: Steve Crook
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  WebSite: Welcome to the Brainstorm Business Forum
  Contact: steve@brainstorm.co.uk
     Date: Tuesday - 18/Jun/96 - 17:44:44
Comments: Generally great but ... How about a search facility ? How about a film suggestions area ? (I know it's your personal lists but you may have missed some good ones). You've only reviewed one Powell & Pressburger film "The Red Shoes". As the GREATEST British movie makers (IMHO) how about adding:

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) (aka Stairway to Heaven)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941) (aka The Invaders)
The Edge of The World (1937)
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Small Back Room (1949)
The Battle of The River Plate (1956)
Ill Met by Moonlight (1956)
The Silver Fleet (1943)
One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942)

to name but a few. They are often quoted by Martin Scorsese as a major influence on his love of movies (if you really need a recommendation).
All the best
Steve
  Visitor: Anné J. Leirtro
Reference: Yahoo!
  Contact: annele@james.avh.unit.no
     Date: Saturday - 15/Jun/96 - 16:32:57
Comments: I am looking around for reviws of "Priest", doing research for an essay at university. It would be nice to find something about this English film which not was form the US! Do you have strong feelings about this film? Mail me!!! I will reply with lots of thanks!
  Visitor: rosa
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: gerryx@ozemail.com.au
     Date: Saturday - 15/Jun/96 - 2:38:50
Comments: just surfed on in
  Visitor: Kelly O'Connell
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: jankel@ibm.net
     Date: Friday - 14/Jun/96 - 15:06:56
Comments: I'm Looking for the movie Trainspotting. Any reviews for it?
  Visitor: Kiernan Burke
Reference: Movie Review Query Engine
  WebSite: T Gallery
  Contact: kburke@iol.ie
     Date: Saturday - 8/Jun/96 - 2:23:42
Comments: glitch in form requires comment
  Visitor: Chen Meihua Nerissa
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  WebSite: pacific surf
  Contact: kinsiang@pacific.net.sg
     Date: Monday - 3/Jun/96 - 6:03:59
Comments: This is certainly a great section for everybody who want to find out about their movie reviews. Anyway, my favourite movie is "Lassie", filmed in the year 1995, and I wish the movie to be reviewed as soon as possible.
  Visitor: Selby
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: peter.k@mail.stpeters.qld.edu.au
     Date: Thursday - 30/May/96 - 1:42:43
Comments: I like Trainspotting
  Visitor: Keith Gabriel
Reference: Word of Mouth
  Contact: K.E.Gabriel
     Date: Wednesday - 29/May/96 - 1:40:48
Comments: While I'm here, is there any chance of showing some more Scorsese reviews?
  Visitor: Helen Davison
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
     Date: Tuesday - 28/May/96 - 5:24:14
Comments: Excellent reveiws you just need more pictures!!!!!
  Visitor: Keith Gabriel
Reference: Word of Mouth
  Contact: K.E. Gabriel@ncl.ac.uk
     Date: Thursday - 25/May/95 - 6:27:51
Comments: As Alex said, in his grammaticaly inept fashion, this is a very good site. Not enough Trainspotting reviews though. We all need as much Trainspotting info as we can get, don't we Alex? Oh, and why don't you use your real name, Wayne?
  Visitor: Alex Johnstone
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: W.A.Johnstone@ncl.uk.ac
     Date: Thursday - 23/May/96 - 8:41:21
Comments: Great site are kid!! Great reviews and appropiate ratings. Also I have this really sad mate whose University course consists entirely of either reading reviews of movies or spending entire afternoons hogging the video watching films. He will wet his pants with glee when I tell him how to get here. Do you know what, he even watches the credits to a film and doesn't leave until even the projectionist(?) has left the building. Sad eh!!
  Visitor: Lois Masters, Technical Services Library-Hermiston Public Library
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: lmasters@orednet.org
     Date: Wednesday - 22/May/96 - 19:30:22
Comments: Glad to find this. We own this film at the Public Library and have had a complaint that it was too erotic. The director asked for additional information about the film. Would like more reviews and feedback. But do you have to use a black background. I would really like to print off your review.
  Visitor: Richard Ozaroff
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: ROzaroff@aol.com
     Date: Wednesday - 22/May/96 - 5:12:00
Comments: Unable to print your reviews because of god-awful black background. Please change to a plain background! Would appreciate a reply by e-mail.
  Visitor: Stanley Anderson
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: StanleyEA@aol.com
     Date: Tuesday - 23/Apr/96 - 7:53:25
Comments: Enjoyable reviews. I'd like to see the star rating next to the movie title in the alphabetical listing so I don't have to link to the review to see the rating (if I'm looking for a good movie to rent, I don't want to take time reading a review of a two star movie)
  Visitor: Charles Finney
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: mozart@erols.com
     Date: Sunday - 21/Apr/96 - 8:41:41
Comments: A useful and entertaining alternative to US review sites. I'll be back.
  Visitor: Tom Thomas
Reference: IMDB
  Contact: tomtice@perth.dialix.oz.au
     Date: Saturday - 13/Apr/96 - 23:03:46
Comments: good to get reviews from other than USA.Balances things out a wee bit.
  Visitor: Alice Garrison
Reference: Netscape
  Contact: Garrison_A@wfum.flint.umich.edu
     Date: Thursday - 11/Apr/96 - 11:30:18
Comments: Haven't looked much yet. Am doing graduate paper on Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America." Would like to get my hands on the script, as well as the Harry Gray novel, The Hoods. Any suggestions?
  Visitor: Arlington, VA
Reference: IMDB
  Contact: sbspnglr@erols.com
     Date: Tuesday - 9/Apr/96 - 19:56:26
Comments: I like what I see. But, why so few movie reviews in UK?
  Visitor: roger
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: b820175@mail.tmc.edu.tw
     Date: Monday - 1/Apr/96 - 22:44:27
Comments: very good
  Visitor: Mary Hynan
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  WebSite: Home Page for FilmFrk71
  Contact: filmfrk@planet.net
     Date: Sunday - 31/Mar/96 - 6:27:52
Comments: Great page!! Take a peak at mine! http://home.aol.com/FilmFrk71
  Visitor: Lida
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: Phognish@aol.com
     Date: Friday - 29/Mar/96 - 21:27:34
Comments: in my humble opinion, you have really good taste in movies, so now if i am not sure as to what movie to rent, i will refer to you. thanks.
  Visitor: Ian Smith
Reference: IMDB
     Date: Friday - 29/Mar/96 - 6:12:16
Comments: Nice to see some UK feedback.
  Visitor: Rachel Mundy
Reference: IMDB
  WebSite: Tim Sorrell's homepage
  Contact: rsm101@unix.york.ac.uk
     Date: Thursday - 28/Mar/96 - 8:50:44
Comments: Looking good so far
  Visitor: Randeroo Dannenfelser
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  WebSite: The Amazing Science Fiction & Horror Trivia Game
  Contact: drtrivia@planet.net
     Date: Monday - 25/Mar/96 - 11:06:02
Comments: Great Page, interesting, insightful reviews. I would have given "Get Shorty" another star, but hey! That's me. Would like to see some reviews of classic sci-fi & horror films. Keep in touch and keep watching the screen!
  Visitor: Hattieboo
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
     Date: Monday - 11/Mar/96 - 19:15:31
Comments: Fascinating! A real bonanza for Anglofiles.
  Visitor: Greg Reynolds
Reference: Net Search
  Contact: gtr100@york.ac.uk
     Date: Saturday - 9/Mar/96 - 9:37:47
Comments: Nice reviews, with useful comment that is usually absent everywhere except some of the newsgroup stuff.
  Visitor: Michael P. Cornick
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: farmerjr@xmission.com
     Date: Sunday - 3/Mar/96 - 17:56:57
Comments: I think that your feelings and opinions toward the films that you review are a prime example of your ignorance towards the founding fathers of modern cinema. I particularly want to express my dissagreement with your rating on the Battleship Potemkin. To say that films like this cannot be watched or studied with modern sensibilities is pure hypocracy. For without a film like Battleship Potemkin, which is in it self responsible for groundbreaking cinematic techniques, we would not have our modern sensibilities to begin with. This film is noted for its achievement in montage, and its cinemagraphic splendor. The battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein is one of the most perfect and concise examples of film structure in the history of cinema. And for you to give this film only 4 out of five stars, and putting Pulp Fiction's rating above it is simply outlandish, and frankly your cinematic expertise is comparative to a four year old Disney lover.
  Visitor: Marco Sonnenschein
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: MSSonnen@nyc.pipeline.com
     Date: Sunday - 3/Mar/96 - 10:13:05
Comments: This looks like something I will return to, time and again. Thanks for all the effort -- I know that I appreciate it.
  Visitor: rosemary friedman
Reference: Net Search
  Contact: ezra@postoffice.ptd.net
     Date: Sunday - 3/Mar/96 - 1:54:35
Comments: i visit almost all of the movie sites frequently; am particularly interested in finding an unabridged tape of make mine mink which is one of the best comedies ever made.
  Visitor: Andrew Beck
Reference: IMDB
  Contact: u9224637@causeway.qub.ac.uk
     Date: Thursday - 29/Feb/96 - 12:22:14
Comments: First class stuff...I'll be back!
  Visitor: Barry Wall
Reference: Netscape
  Contact: Barry@Mage.demon.co.uk
     Date: Wednesday - 28/Feb/96 - 9:05:30
Comments: There GRRRRRReat
  Visitor: Stephen roberts
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  WebSite: Stephen Roberts Home Page
  Contact: s.j.roberts1@comp.brad.ac.uk
     Date: Wednesday - 28/Feb/96 - 4:29:54
Comments: Very good
  Visitor: Dennis Coleman
Reference: Net Search
  Contact: dcolema@vcx.net
     Date: Tuesday - 27/Feb/96 - 22:29:53
Comments: Yours was about the 10th listing under "Movie Reviews" using Netscape Navigator. After a quick scan revealed Frank Capra's "Bitter Tea" I figured this was serious business -- a site worth checking out. I did. I like it very much. And I most definitely will be back.

Thanks.
  Visitor: Valdimarsson, Saebjorn
Reference: IMDB
  Contact: saebjorn@centrum.is
     Date: Wednesday - 21/Feb/96 - 2:38:40
Comments: So far, so good!
  Visitor: Edinburgh University Film Society
Reference: Word of Mouth
  WebSite: Edinburgh University Film Society Home Page
  Contact: filmsoc@festival.ed.ac.uk
     Date: Tuesday - 20/Feb/96 - 7:13:07
Comments: As one of the largest and (we like to think so anyway) the best student film societies in Britain, we are encouraged to see such a promising site. Keep up the good work.
  Visitor: Neil P. Chue Hong
Reference: NewsGroups
  WebSite: Neil's Home Page
  Contact: npch@tardis.ed.ac.uk
     Date: Tuesday - 20/Feb/96 - 7:10:04
Comments: Was passing and thought I'd drop by. Not many guests yet though.
  Visitor: Ronald Yost
Reference: Just Surfed On In!
  Contact: dyost@oak.kcsd.k12.pa.us
     Date: Monday - 19/Feb/96 - 15:53:16
Comments: Hello. I stumbled across your site while searching for a review of "Angels & Insects" -- a lady friend of mine wants to see it -- and I like it very much. I'm glad to see you offer reviews of older films as well as the latest blockbusters; and I am in almost complete agreement with your review of "Radio Days." I would have given it five stars; I am a big Woody Allen fan.

Anyway, I will tell others about your site and I'll check back for more movie reviews. Thanks.

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