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Movie ***** Groundhog Day (1993)

rmann September 1, 2019 September 1, 2019Movie and Book Reviews comedy, fantasy, movie, review 0

Watched one of my favorite comic fantasies—again! Bill Murray was still in top form as the self-absorbed weatherman and Andie MacDowell perfect as his unobtainable producer. Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin get six stars for their screenplay, Ramis six for direction as well, and, as I noticed this time, for…

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Movie *** Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)

rmann August 13, 2019 September 24, 2019Movie and Book Reviews action, animation, comedy, fantasy, movie, review, YA 0

Fun, but uneven, adventure. Psychedelic jungle flowers and all the animated sequences and characters could have been eliminated and made the movie stronger.

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Book – ****+ D.O.D.O. (2017)

rmann July 24, 2019 September 3, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, history, review, sci-fi 0

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

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Book – ****+ The Cobweb (1996)

rmann July 16, 2019 July 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, drama, fantasy, history, political, review 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.

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

rmann July 16, 2019 July 18, 2019Shows drama, fantasy, musical 0

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

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Movie **** Yesterday (2019)

rmann July 15, 2019 July 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews fantasy, movie, music, review, romance, YA 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.

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Movie **** The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2 (2011)

rmann July 3, 2019 July 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews, Romance fantasy, movie, review, romance, YA 0

Edward and Bella wed and manage to conceive before the fast growing baby forces her to become immortal. Fun plot twists  and YA romance.

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Book – **** Strange the Dreamer (2017)

rmann June 25, 2019 June 25, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, review, romance 0

Laini Taylor romantic fantasy of a lost magical city and a librarian obsessed with its rediscovery. This creative celebration of imagination and conflicted relationships was entertaining while a bit uneven in its compelling versus repetitive elements.

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Neal Stephenson reading at Powell’s Bookstore

rmann June 4, 2019 June 25, 2019Readings, Writing book, fantasy, reading group, sci-fi 0

  one hour before… Neal reads from D.O.D.O.

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Movie ***+ Aladdin (2019)

rmann June 3, 2019 June 12, 2019Movie and Book Reviews adventure, fantasy, movie, review, romance, YA 0

Fun but predictable live-action remake. Will Smith gets all the kudos while the musical numbers, other than his, are flat. Will’s genie was worth the ticket price.

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