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Movie *** Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)

rmann August 13, 2019 September 24, 2019Movie and Book Reviews action, animation, comedy, fantasy, movie, review, YA 0

Fun, but uneven, adventure. Psychedelic jungle flowers and all the animated sequences and characters could have been eliminated and made the movie stronger.

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Portland Thorns meet North Carolina before record crowd.

rmann August 11, 2019 September 3, 2019Sports action, sports 0

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Mama’s Fish House on Maui

rmann August 3, 2019 September 3, 2019Food, Seasonal, Travel food, Summer, travel 0

 Mama’s fantastic restaurant.  The Black Pearl dessert.  Mama’s beach.

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Movie **** Maiden (2018)

rmann August 2, 2019 September 1, 2019Movie and Book Reviews documentary, drama, movie, sports, travel 0

Documentary of Tracy Edwards leading the first all-woman crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race. Terrific recreation of the internal drive, pressures, rivalries, and dangers of such competition.

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Hawaii – Big Island beauty

rmann July 30, 2019 September 3, 2019Seasonal, Travel biology, Science, Summer, travel 0

 Kona sunset.   New lava beach replaced old…

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Movie ***+ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

rmann July 24, 2019 September 1, 2019Movie and Book Reviews action, movie, review, thriller 0

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) – Quintessential Tarantinio, brilliant and flawed. Great performances by Pitt and DiCaprio. Several terrific set pieces and Julia Butters’ performance saved the film from Tarantino’s signature violence. With a great editor, this film could have caught another star.

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Book – ****+ D.O.D.O. (2017)

rmann July 24, 2019 September 3, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, history, review, sci-fi 0

Fine Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland collaboration. Starts by positing a scientific basis for witchcraft and time travel and goesn on from there.

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Book – ****+ The Cobweb (1996)

rmann July 16, 2019 July 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, drama, fantasy, history, political, review 0

Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George thriller. Very engaging drama of a fanciful Iraqi scheme to build bio-weapons near an Iowa university. Equally interesting is the government compartmentalization that tries to avoid discovering what’s going on.

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Stage Show *** Wicked (Portland, OR, 2019 production)

rmann July 16, 2019 July 18, 2019Shows drama, fantasy, musical 0

Clever twists on the Oz legacy. Fine performances, but the songs did not reach the Andrew Lloyd Weber level of musical legends.

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Movie **** Yesterday (2019)

rmann July 15, 2019 July 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews fantasy, movie, music, review, romance, YA 0

Totally entertaining romantic comedy of a down-and-out musician who slips into an alternate reality where he seems to be the only one who’s heard of a rock band called the Beatles. Now he’s the hottest songwriter on earth.

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