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Movie ***+ Love, Antosha (2019)

rmann August 27, 2019 September 24, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Compelling documentary of actor, Anton Yelchin, who struggled against Cystic Fibrosis to build an impressive career in film until his accidental death at 27.

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.

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.

Book – ****+ Elon Musk (2015)

rmann January 20, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Non-fiction biography of Elon Musk’s obsessions and his rise to become a technological superpower. Space flight, electric vehicles, and underground tunneling are not science fiction, but practical daily pursuits to a driven man who reminds me of Ayne Rand’s Howard Roark, unafraid to challenge both bureaucracy and conventional wisdom at…

Movie ****+ Vice (2018)

rmann December 31, 2018 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Psudeo-documentary of Dick Cheney political career and his role in the Iraq war.

Movie ***+ Green Book (2018)

rmann December 1, 2018 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Totally deserving of its Best Picture Oscar and Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Mahershala Ali. Vigo Mortenson had my vote for Best Actor at the time, but I had yet to see Bohemian Rhapsody and Rami Malek’s work.

Movie ****+ The Oscar-nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action (2018)

rmann January 28, 2018 May 27, 2018Movie and Book Reviews 0

Excellent collection of short films. All these films were worth watching, but although The Silent Child won, my favorite was Watu Wote/All of Us which showed the crippling effects of religious intolerance and the simple power of people bonding with each other in spite of their different backgrounds and surroundings.

Partial eclipse images projected through a spaghetti colander

rmann August 21, 2017 August 29, 2017Science, Seasonal, Travel 0

Partial eclipse at 10:03 AM in Madras . . . Eclipse light on tent at 12 min. to totality . . .Eclipse light at 20 seconds before totality.

Movie *** Dunkirk (2017)

rmann August 6, 2017 August 29, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Although given rave reviews by critics and audiences, I was disappointed. The best feature was the filming, but again editing and sound were terrible. Overlong sequences of confusing air combat with garbled dialogue (I guess the masks over the pilot’s faces didn’t help). Also, I was interested in how the…

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Movie ***+ Love, Antosha (2019)

Movie **** Maiden (2018)

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

Movie ***** Free Solo (2018)

Book – ****+ Elon Musk (2015)

Movie ****+ Vice (2018)

Movie ***+ Green Book (2018)

Movie ****+ The Oscar-nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action (2018)

Partial eclipse images projected through a spaghetti colander

Movie *** Dunkirk (2017)

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