ROTTEN TOMATOES: Daniel Robert Epstein

DANIEL ROBERT EPSTEIN

Biography: FilmStew.com movie critic.

Publications: FilmStew.com

Total Reviews: 43

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

N/A	Fresh 84%	Breach (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says real-life spy catcher Eric O'Neill: "I think Robert Hanssen could have been a very good teacher if he wasn’t such a terrible person."" Posted Jun 7, 2007
N/A	Rotten 44%	Hostel: Part II (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - When Eli Roth asked a certain director for career advice, the filmmaker replied he should always choose projects "that give him the biggest boner."" Posted Jun 1, 2007
N/A	Fresh 72%	28 Weeks Later (2007)	" Author Interview - Says comic book bridge novel author Steve Niles: "I always thought it hysterical and tragic that the end of the world was triggered by PETA."" Posted May 11, 2007
N/A	Rotten 47%	Duck (2007)	" Actor Interview - Says Hall: "We have films about dogs, maybe a few about cats, based on relationships between the owners and the animals. But one with a duck is unusual."" Posted May 8, 2007
N/A	Rotten 9%	The Reaping (2007)	" Actor Interview - She’s won two more Oscars than he has; he’s got a gazillion dollars. In other words, Hilary Swank and Joel Silver is a match made in Hollywood hog heaven. " Posted Apr 3, 2007
N/A	Rotten 56%	The Good Shepherd (2006)	" *It’s probably safe to say that Meet the Parents* and The Good Shepherd only really have one other thing in common. His name is Milton Bearden.**" Posted Apr 2, 2007
N/A	Rotten 51%	Color Me Kubrick (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says director Brian W. Cook: “I asked my daughter who was the best wardrobe person in commercials and she said Ken Russell’s daughter.”" Posted Mar 21, 2007
N/A	Fresh 64%	American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006)	" Filmmaker Interviews - When co-directors Perry Grebin and Michael Nigro realized their cameras were changing the dynamics of pitch meetings, they went for it." Posted Mar 19, 2007
N/A	Rotten 11%	The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Jonathan Craven about working with his dad on the script: "If I had been looking over his shoulder, we probably would have killed each other."" Posted Mar 2, 2007
N/A	Fresh 89%	Zodiac (2007)	" *Filmmaker Interviews - Zodiac* is but one of six films producers Mike Medavoy and Brad Fischer had their hands on in 2006.**" Posted Feb 28, 2007
N/A	Fresh 71%	Amazing Grace (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - As he turns the corner on his 66th birthday, filmmaker Michael Apted is simply thrilled to have finally made a movie co-starring Albert Finney." Posted Feb 23, 2007
N/A	Fresh 94%	Apartment Zero (1988)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Says screenwriter David Koepp: "There should be a book about Hollywood titled Everyone Was Hoping for a Little More...”*" Posted Feb 21, 2007
N/A	Rotten 28%	Trust the Man (2006)	" *Actor Interview - Says Trust the Man* co-star Billy Crudup: "I’m as much a fan of fart jokes as I am of psychological and emotional dramas."**" Posted Feb 5, 2007
N/A	Fresh 76%	Catch a Fire (2006)	" *Actor Interviews - Derek Luke and Tim Robbins are hoping their latest film, Catch a Fire, will do better on DVD than it did in theaters.*" Posted Jan 30, 2007
N/A	Fresh 75%	Sherrybaby (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - For writer-director Laurie Collyer, it all started to come together when Hollywood stopped perceiving her as a "Sundance chick."" Posted Jan 19, 2007
N/A	Fresh 77%	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Says screenwriter David Koepp: "I’m going to get my ss handed to me on some level, even by my fellow filmmakers or the audience."**" Posted Jan 17, 2007
N/A	Fresh 60%	300 (2007)	" *Actor Interview - Says Gerard Butler of 300: "It’s finding that fine line between this man’s absolute brutality and that he’s a hero who pushes the definition of hero."*" Posted Jan 5, 2007
N/A	Fresh 87%	Notes on a Scandal (2006)	" Actor Interview - To some, Bill Nighy is forever a zombie, a vampire or a squid. But few denizens of those kinds of movies can also convincingly inhabit a pompous professor." Posted Jan 4, 2007
N/A	Fresh 74%	The Dead Girl (2006)	" Actor Interview - Despite some solid film festival circuit excitment, Brittany Murphy has been passed over by the Spirit Awards and the Golden Globes." Posted Jan 2, 2007
N/A	Fresh 74%	Fearless (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - For fans of early Yu, the arrival on DVD of Fearless* is a Christmas gift that merits a high kick to the mistletoe.**" Posted Dec 19, 2006
N/A	Fresh 91%	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	" Actor Interview - Says Japanese actor Ken Watanabe: "Before shooting, I didn't worry about war so much. But after shooting, I definitely never want to see war again."" Posted Dec 15, 2006
N/A	Fresh 90%	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	" Actor Interview - With a Spirit nomination and the co-lead in next year’s Daniel Day-Lewis drama, this Dano is very familiar with the casting director words “Book ‘em.”" Posted Dec 7, 2006
N/A	Rotten 49%	Candy (2006)	" Actor Interview - Equally intriguing is the fact that Candy is the first time this decade that Ledger has been allowed to voice a part without any adopted inflections." Posted Nov 30, 2006
N/A	Rotten 15%	Turistas (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - It’s not exactly Lord of the Rings. But actor-turned-director John Stockwell brings his bikinis-and-water trilogy to a chilling conclusion.*" Posted Nov 29, 2006
N/A	Rotten 48%	Harsh Times (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - David Ayer wrote Harsh Times* right after Training Day. But unlike that film, his directorial debut was financed largely with his own money.**" Posted Nov 10, 2006
N/A	Rotten 25%	Saw III (2006)	" *Actor Interview - Saw III* might just be the most fun Shawnee Smith has had as an actress since that limo ride with Bon Jovi.**" Posted Oct 27, 2006
N/A	Fresh 87%	The Last King of Scotland (2006)	" Actor Interview - Forest Whitaker admits it. He knows Barbet Schroder's 1974 documentary backwards and forwards." Posted Oct 5, 2006
N/A	Fresh 97%	The Queen (2006)	" Actor Interview - Helen Mirren plumbed the psychology of her latest Queen Elizabeth with the help of archival footage and vocal coach Penny Dyer." Posted Oct 4, 2006
N/A	Rotten 35%	Sorry, Haters (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - Writer-director Jeff Stanzler is contemplating going door-to-door this fall to make a case to Academy members for Robin Wright Penn." Posted Sep 5, 2006
N/A	Fresh 75%	Factotum (2006)	" Actor Interview - Matt Dillon says that once he understood no one was expecting him to impersonate Charles Bukowski, he was comfortable taking on the role." Posted Sep 2, 2006
N/A	Fresh 60%	Crank (2006)	" *Actor Interview - It's unlikely Statham's acting idols such as Lee Marvin would have ever improvised a scene around the notion of a forehead emblazoned with the word cnt.**" Posted Sep 1, 2006
N/A	Rotten 19%	10th & Wolf (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - It all started when Paul Haggis turned to Bobby Moresco and said, "I want to do your life story."" Posted Aug 29, 2006
N/A	Rotten 15%	Surviving Eden (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - After tackling the topics of bisexuality and ventriloquism, writer-director-actor Greg Pritikin plunges into the world of Survivor.*" Posted Aug 24, 2006
N/A	Rotten 42%	Gridiron Gang (2006)	" *Celebrity Interview - Former University of Miami football star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had no trouble identifying with the Gridiron Gang* subject matter.**" Posted Aug 24, 2006
N/A	Rotten 46%	Edmond (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - For director-producer Stuart Gordon, the travails of a zombie-like human character have become as fascinating as those of revived cats and corpses." Posted Jul 20, 2006
N/A	Fresh 75%	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)	" Actor Interview - At age 45, Stanley Tucci has a new TV series on the way and another memorable performance to fill the gap between his third and fourth directorial efforts." Posted Jun 28, 2006
N/A	Rotten 35%	Wassup Rockers (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - It began with an L.A. photo shoot and ended three years later with a film. In between, Larry Clark says he learned a whole lot about the ghetto." Posted Jun 26, 2006
N/A	Fresh 69%	The Outsider (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - James Toback says the main thing he learned from watching The Outsider* is that he needs to lose weight, fast.**" Posted Jun 19, 2006
N/A	Rotten 7%	Basic Instinct 2 (2006)	" Actor Interview - Although this Morrissey doesn't sing, he could easily hum The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma" in his very trashy new American flick." Posted Mar 30, 2006
N/A	Rotten 59%	Lonesome Jim (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - There is one constant coursing through the career of Steve Buscemi, big screen director. All of his films feature actor Seymour Cassel." Posted Mar 22, 2006
N/A	Rotten 32%	Tamara (2006)	" *Jeffrey Reddick's cinematic journey began with glimpses of drive-in movies at age 12 and continues today with the likes of Tamara* and a remake of Day of the Dead.**" Posted Feb 23, 2006
N/A	Fresh 60%	Class of 1984 (1982)	" Celebrity Interview - Pery King didn't see much in a youngster named Michael J. Fox. But boy, did he have fun working with the legendary Roddy McDowall." Posted Feb 20, 2006
N/A	Fresh 71%	Bubble (2006)	" As one half of billionaire Mark Cuban’s vertically integrated entertainment content play, Todd Wagner has a lot to say about Hollywood’s imminent paradigm shifts." Posted Feb 7, 2006

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