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Movie ***+ My Cousin Rachel (2017)

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

Dark period piece Rachel Weisz plays the supposed black widow, Rachel Ashley, bent on poisoning her husband.

Book – ***** Snow Crash (2007)

rmann June 7, 2017 March 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Neal Stephenson masterpiece of sci.fi./fantasy where corporations are more powerful than countries, and ancient programming is controlling mass behavior.

Movie ***+ Tampopo (1985)

rmann June 7, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Entertaining Ramen noodle shop comedy.

Movie ***+ Funk Brothers (2011)

rmann June 5, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Fun music history documentary of the studio musicians behind some of Motown’s greatest hits.

Movie ***** Evita (1996)

rmann May 24, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

The unlikely sing duo of Madonna and Antionio Banderas do a fantastic Oscar-winning job with the Andrew Lloyd Weber songs.

Movie ***** Day of the Jackal (1973)

rmann May 20, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Superb find-the-assassin movie. Tony Britton, Inspector Label, must track down Edward Fox, a believable sociopath, paid to assassinate De Gaulle.

Movie ***+ Gifted (2017)

rmann May 10, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Fun “hidden genius” movie where Mckenna Grace plays a 7-year-old super mathematician, but slightly too super to be believable. Even Bobby Fisher didn’t beat Boris Spassky when he was seven.

Book – ****+ Knottspeed (2017)

rmann May 8, 2017 March 23, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Unconventional love story by Jeff Johnson beginning with oddball characters, Knottspeed and Fencepost, struggling with mobility issues in nearly homeless circumstances. Sticking until the Part II story line kicks in will reward you with a plot that comes together and the characters of Dr. Simon Resner and Tay Tay, both…

Book – ****+ Amped (2014)

rmann May 1, 2017 March 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Terrific Daniel H. Wilson sci.fi. mutant story. Will the world destroy or embrace the next evolutionary step?

Book **,*+ Doublesight and Memory Tower(2006-2007)

rmann April 26, 2017 March 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Terry Persun’s fantasy world where shape-changers are a common if misunderstood human variant, even between different clans of their own kind.

Category: Movie and Book Reviews

Movie ***+ My Cousin Rachel (2017)

Book – ***** Snow Crash (2007)

Movie ***+ Tampopo (1985)

Movie ***+ Funk Brothers (2011)

Movie ***** Evita (1996)

Movie ***** Day of the Jackal (1973)

Movie ***+ Gifted (2017)

Book – ****+ Knottspeed (2017)

Book – ****+ Amped (2014)

Book **,*+ Doublesight and Memory Tower(2006-2007)

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