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Year: 2019
Book – ****+ The 5th Wave (2013)
Very good sci.fi. novel of earth’s invasion where the aliens attempt to conquer us from the inside out.
Movie * High Life (2017)
Terrible excuse for a science fiction movie, getting all the science and all of the fiction wrong. A manned mission to the event horizon of a black hole??? Enough said.
Movie **** Lean on Pete (2017)
Odd story of a neglected boy befriending an unwanted horse and trying to find a home for himself.
Book – ****+ Bruiser (2013)
A Neal Schusterman treatise on empathy. Fantasy that plays with our real-world emotional responsibilities by the author of Scythe.
Movie ****+ Shazzam (2019)
Totally fun origin movie on the original Captain Marvel. Some silly, but entertaining fun.
Movie **** Of Horses and Men (2013)
Another Erlingsson film preceding his Woman at War success. Fine study of horses and men in a small Icelandic village.
Movie *** Dumbo (2019)
Sad remake of original, but not sad in the same heart-rending way the original was. Don’t bother to go, but I won’t drop the spoilers of what doesn’t work in case you can’t stop yourself.
Movie ****+ Hanna (TV 2019 – Season 1)
Esme Creed-Miles is terrific as the engineered assassin, raised until a teen in the forest, looking for her identity and her real parents. Enos and Kinnaman are also exceptional as her creators and handlers, now pitted against each other.
Movie **** Layer Cake (2004)
Complex British thriller where Daniel Craig would like to retire from a successful life of crime, but… there are two more jobs he needs to accomplish first. Twice as good as when he only has one thing to accomplish first.
Book – ****+ The 5th Wave (2013)
Very good sci.fi. novel of earth’s invasion where the aliens attempt to conquer us from the inside out.
Movie * High Life (2017)
Terrible excuse for a science fiction movie, getting all the science and all of the fiction wrong. A manned mission to the event horizon of a black hole??? Enough said.
Movie **** Lean on Pete (2017)
Odd story of a neglected boy befriending an unwanted horse and trying to find a home for himself.
Book – ****+ Bruiser (2013)
A Neal Schusterman treatise on empathy. Fantasy that plays with our real-world emotional responsibilities by the author of Scythe.
Movie ****+ Shazzam (2019)
Totally fun origin movie on the original Captain Marvel. Some silly, but entertaining fun.
Movie **** Of Horses and Men (2013)
Another Erlingsson film preceding his Woman at War success. Fine study of horses and men in a small Icelandic village.
Movie *** Dumbo (2019)
Sad remake of original, but not sad in the same heart-rending way the original was. Don’t bother to go, but I won’t drop the spoilers of what doesn’t work in case you can’t stop yourself.
Movie ****+ Hanna (TV 2019 – Season 1)
Esme Creed-Miles is terrific as the engineered assassin, raised until a teen in the forest, looking for her identity and her real parents. Enos and Kinnaman are also exceptional as her creators and handlers, now pitted against each other.
Movie **** Layer Cake (2004)
Complex British thriller where Daniel Craig would like to retire from a successful life of crime, but… there are two more jobs he needs to accomplish first. Twice as good as when he only has one thing to accomplish first.