Movie and book reviews.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Rebel Wilson pulls of the challenging premise of a heavyset woman architect trapped in as the star of a romantic comedy.
Another compelling book by Naomi Novik, but not the sequel to Uprootedthat I thought it was. Naomi has a gift for character that turns her story of moneylenders into a major work of magical fantasy.
Another Darby Holland crime novel by Jeff Johnson. In the same setting as Luck Supreme, Darby avoids a deadly nemesis from his past, while struggling to adjust to the imminent wedding and departure of Delia.
Terrible selection of depressing child-aggression and endangerment plots.
Cixin Liu story of Earth, threatened with destruction, beginning an interstellar journey to save humanity that’s burrowed into the mantle of the planet to survive.
Nice origin story for Captain Mar-Vell, an alien upgraded human woman returned to earth to prevent dangerous new technology being acquired.