fantasy – Page 6 – Richard Mann Author

Book – Beastly (2007)

rmann April 10, 2017 March 24, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Book – **** YA love story playing off Beauty and the Beast in a delightful way. A very quick read.

Movie **** Ghost in the Shell (2017)

rmann April 3, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Well-made sci.fi. of cyber-enhanced Major, Scarlett Johansson, a created weapon. Despite controversy about the casting of Johansson in the original comic books Asian main role, she does an excellent acting job. I bought her conflict over her uncertain origins.

Movie – ***** Galaxy Quest (1999)

rmann April 2, 2017 August 29, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Classic sci-fi comedy with Tim Allen and Sigorney Weaver. Every scene and bit part is played to perfection. Worth watching and re-watching.

Movie ***+ Power Rangers (2017)

rmann April 1, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Power Rangers (2017) After successfully introducing the main characters and giving them their powers, their characters are lost inside the machines they do battle in, becoming another episode of Transformers.

Book – The Way of Shadows (2008)

rmann March 17, 2017 March 24, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Book – ***+ A dark fantasy, taking the traditional beggar-thief to wizard journey but as a supernaturally empowered assassin. Clever writing—not for kids.

Movie – **** Logan (2017)

rmann March 15, 2017 March 24, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Inventive story of the troubled elderly Logan and the remnant of the mutants, but treaded too close to a John Woo film substituting knife slashes and their resultant carnage for the typical cascade of bullets and blasted bodies.

Book – The Warrior Heir (2006)

rmann February 17, 2017 February 13, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Book – ***+ An enjoyable early fantasy by Cinda Williams Chima with a main character, Jack, who discovers himself a wizard when he stops taking the medicine that’s suppressed his latent talents his whole life.

Book – The Gray Wolf Throne (2011)

rmann February 10, 2017 February 13, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Book – ***+ Book Three of Cinda Williams Chima’s Seven Realms series had a strong beginning and middle, but failed to wrap up the series or complicate the plot for more adventures by the end which was filled with more pageantry than plot.

Movie – ***+ Passengers (2016)

rmann February 7, 2017 March 24, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Enjoyable interstellar adventure if you focus on the story, characters, and visuals and not on the science. Space is like the Pacific Ocean only bigger—you just don’t run into big things out there, but if you did you’d see them coming from a long way off and scoot around them.…

Book – The Exiled Queen (2010)

rmann February 3, 2017 February 13, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Book – **** Book Two of Cinda Williams Chima’s Seven Realms series is stronger than Book One. Han Alister continues to grow into his new life as a wizard, while Princess Raisa (in disguise) becomes the center of his universe.

Tag: fantasy

Book – Beastly (2007)

Movie **** Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Movie – ***** Galaxy Quest (1999)

Movie ***+ Power Rangers (2017)

Book – The Way of Shadows (2008)

Movie – **** Logan (2017)

Book – The Warrior Heir (2006)

Book – The Gray Wolf Throne (2011)

Movie – ***+ Passengers (2016)

Book – The Exiled Queen (2010)

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