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Movie ** The Oscar-nom. Short Films 2018: Live Action (2018)

rmann February 25, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Terrible selection of depressing child-aggression and endangerment plots.

Movie **** Wandering Earth (2019)

rmann February 24, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

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.

Movie ****+ Captain Marvel (2019)

rmann February 24, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Nice origin story for Captain Mar-Vell, an alien upgraded human woman returned to earth to prevent dangerous new technology being acquired.

Movie ****+ Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

rmann February 16, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Well-done animated post alien-invasion sci-fi where android bots battle for the floating-city masters who control them.

Valentine’s dinner.

rmann February 15, 2019 March 31, 2019Romance, Seasonal 0

Anticipating dinner at Q.

November Amaryllis decides to bloom.

rmann February 12, 2019 March 31, 2019Science, Seasonal 0

Late bloomer.

Book – ***** Sapiens (2016)

rmann February 12, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Masterpiece of historical philosophy. Yuval Harari has put together a consistent model of the development of human society identifying businesses, nations, and religions as convenient fictions that humans indulge in to allow themselves to cooperate in large numbers delivering first the Agricultural Revolution, then the Industrial Revolution, and finally the…

Ice fog.

rmann February 9, 2019 March 31, 2019Science, Seasonal 0

Winter magic.

Movie ***** They Shall Not Grow Old (2019)

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

xceptional restoration of actual World War I footage using the actual participants in a way no actor could duplicate. As interesting as the restored footage is the 30 min follow-on piece about the decisions used in the restoration and the painstaking efforts to ‘get it right’.

Movie ***** Free Solo (2018)

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

Nail-biting documentary of the no-ropes climbing of El Capitan in Yosemite. Well-earned Best Documentary Oscar.

Movie ** The Oscar-nom. Short Films 2018: Live Action (2018)

Movie **** Wandering Earth (2019)

Movie ****+ Captain Marvel (2019)

Movie ****+ Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Valentine’s dinner.

November Amaryllis decides to bloom.

Book – ***** Sapiens (2016)

Ice fog.

Movie ***** They Shall Not Grow Old (2019)

Movie ***** Free Solo (2018)

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