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Movie **** Maiden (2018)

rmann August 2, 2019 September 1, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Documentary of Tracy Edwards leading the first all-woman crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race. Terrific recreation of the internal drive, pressures, rivalries, and dangers of such competition.

Hawaii – Big Island beauty

rmann July 30, 2019 September 3, 2019Seasonal, Travel 0

Kona sunset. New lava beach replaced old…

Movie ***+ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

rmann July 24, 2019 September 1, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) – Quintessential Tarantinio, brilliant and flawed. Great performances by Pitt and DiCaprio. Several terrific set pieces and Julia Butters’ performance saved the film from Tarantino’s signature violence. With a great editor, this film could have caught another star.

Book – ****+ D.O.D.O. (2017)

rmann July 24, 2019 September 3, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Fine Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland collaboration. Starts by positing a scientific basis for witchcraft and time travel and goesn on from there.

Book – ****+ The Cobweb (1996)

rmann July 16, 2019 July 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George thriller. Very engaging drama of a fanciful Iraqi scheme to build bio-weapons near an Iowa university. Equally interesting is the government compartmentalization that tries to avoid discovering what’s going on.

Stage Show *** Wicked (Portland, OR, 2019 production)

rmann July 16, 2019 July 18, 2019Shows 0

Clever twists on the Oz legacy. Fine performances, but the songs did not reach the Andrew Lloyd Weber level of musical legends.

Movie **** Yesterday (2019)

rmann July 15, 2019 July 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Totally entertaining romantic comedy of a down-and-out musician who slips into an alternate reality where he seems to be the only one who’s heard of a rock band called the Beatles. Now he’s the hottest songwriter on earth.

Summer grape arbor.

rmann July 14, 2019 July 16, 2019Travel 0

Behind a watercolor art show, nature was busy making grapes.

Movie ****+ Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)

rmann July 14, 2019 July 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Excellent follow-on to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Story wins out over special effects proving once again what folks really go to the movies for.

Kites over Hood River, OR

rmann July 13, 2019 July 16, 2019Seasonal, Travel 0

Just a few of the 100 kite surfers preparing to compete in Hood River.

Movie **** Maiden (2018)

Hawaii – Big Island beauty

Movie ***+ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Book – ****+ D.O.D.O. (2017)

Book – ****+ The Cobweb (1996)

Stage Show *** Wicked (Portland, OR, 2019 production)

Movie **** Yesterday (2019)

Summer grape arbor.

Movie ****+ Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)

Kites over Hood River, OR

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