2017 – Page 7 – Richard Mann Author

Movie **** Beauty and the Beast (2017)

rmann April 17, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Surprisingly good adaptation with Emma Watson a credible Belle and Dan Stevens as Beast. No remake, however, will replace the magic of Jean Cocteau’s French 1946 classic.

Movie ****+ Colossal (2016)

rmann April 14, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Oddball masterpiece of fantasy/sci.fi. with Ann Hathaway returning to her hometown after disaster in N.Y. to unfinished business with Oscar, a childhood boyfriend. Unexpectedly a world-threatening battle between giant monsters in Seoul, Korea, is controlled by them from a sandlot in a hometown playground.

Book – Beastly (2007)

rmann April 10, 2017 March 24, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Book – **** YA love story playing off Beauty and the Beast in a delightful way. A very quick read.

Movie **** Ghost in the Shell (2017)

rmann April 3, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Well-made sci.fi. of cyber-enhanced Major, Scarlett Johansson, a created weapon. Despite controversy about the casting of Johansson in the original comic books Asian main role, she does an excellent acting job. I bought her conflict over her uncertain origins.

Year: 2017

Movie **** Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Movie ****+ Colossal (2016)

Book – Beastly (2007)

Movie **** Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Spring fawn

Movie – ***** Galaxy Quest (1999)

Movie ***+ Power Rangers (2017)

Chanticleer Authors Conference

Poem – Snow Melts

Book – Buried Threads (2005)

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