March 2019 – Richard Mann Author

2019 March

Movie ****+ Woman at War (2019)

rmann March 31, 2019 April 2, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Exceptional Icelandic story of individualism fighting corporate values relentlessly shaping a short-term future away from long-term human desires.

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Roof snow bars our back door.

rmann March 22, 2019 March 31, 2019Seasonal, Travel 0

End of March accumulation in Eastern Oregon.

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Movie ***** The Fugitive (1993)

rmann March 22, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones (Oscar) blockbuster murder mystery. Terrific cinematography and editing. As fun on the third viewing as the first.

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Movie ***+ Grand Torino (2008)

rmann March 22, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Superb Eastwood film and Eastwood performance as Korean War vet, Kowalski, befriending a Hmong boy against his inclination.

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Book – ***+ Red Queen (2015)

rmann March 21, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Victoria Aveyard fantasy of a future world of red and silver blooded humans with supernatural power over both physics and the brains of each other. The main character. Mare, though a lowly Red, can control electricity. The princes of the Silver Realm control heat, but others can cancel their powers…

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Book – ****+ Home (2017)

rmann March 17, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

With the return of Myron and Win, Harlan Coban delivers another complex plot tracking the ten-year old disappearance of two boys and the shattered lived surrounding the event.

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Book – ****+ Homo Deus (2017)

rmann March 15, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Yuval Harari outlines the trends and pressures that are rapidly replacing human control of evolving society and placing its future in the hands of algorithymic fictions we’ve created to drive toward questionable goals. Without even the emergence of the Singularity, we are relinquishing our choices to computer systems driving us…

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Bellagio glass ceiling and golden horse.

rmann March 6, 2019 March 31, 2019Travel 0

Chihuly (flori de como) blown glass ceiling upstages golden horse.

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Movie ***** Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

rmann March 6, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Terrific history of Freddy Mercury and Queen with Oscar-winning performance by Rami Malek. The sound in the film’s songs surpassed Celine Dione’s live performance that I just saw live – hence sound editing and mixing Oscars.

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Celine Dion live at Ceasar’s

rmann March 5, 2019 March 31, 2019Shows, Travel 0

Wow, over the top performer delivers.

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