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Movie **+ Kingsman (2017)

rmann September 22, 2017 May 27, 2018Movie and Book Reviews 0

Terrible sequel to the pilot Kingsman movie, with unlikely motivations and events throughout.

Book – ***** Dead Bomb Bingo Ray (2017)

rmann September 18, 2017 September 18, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Jeff Johnson crime story about a serious fixer, Ray, who’s universally targeted by clients and criminals, but has the planning and watchfulness to remain alive. Jeff manages to weave a love story amid a lot of mayhem to leave you waiting for a sequel.

Movie ****+ It (2017)

rmann September 15, 2017 May 27, 2018Movie and Book Reviews 0

Careful recreation of the Stephen King classic that made us all afraid of clowns.

Book – ***+ Second Skin (2017)

rmann September 3, 2017 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Eric Lustbader crime story about an American entrepreneur, with mystical insight, in Yakuza-controlled Japan fighting against his evil counterpart to control the world through proprietary web software.

Movie **** The Little Hours (2017)

rmann September 1, 2017 May 27, 2018Movie and Book Reviews 0

Bizarre, with modern bad language, but set in a Middle Age’s convent, with a host of bad nuns, novitiates, and monks. Irreverently funny.

Movie ***+ Columbus (2017)

rmann August 30, 2017 August 31, 2017Uncategorized 0

Another set of rave reviews by critics, but less than amazing in the theater. Though the intellectual idea of architecture as therapy was intriguing and the filming visually superb, the story was as spare as the architecture, and the dialogue almost non-existent. The movie crept forward at a snail’s pace,…

Book – ***** Lucky Supreme (2017)

rmann August 27, 2017 September 18, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Excellent crime story by Jeff Johnson set mainly in a tattoo parlor in Portland Oregon’s Old Town. Quirky characters abound, and interesting villains, but what Jeff gets best is the slippery logic of the main character, Darby Holland, and his employee Delia.

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…

Movie **** The Big Sick (2017)

rmann August 4, 2017 August 29, 2017Movie and Book Reviews 0

Nice version of the standard Indian parental prejudice/bride-selection story. The marriage of fiction and documentary was well handled.

Movie ***+ Guardians of the Galaxy – vol. 2 (2017)

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

Good sequel, but could have benefitted from better editing. Overlong sequences of Quill’s mental-spear doing its work, and the Ego story and plot-shift comes (literally) out of the blue.

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Movie **+ Kingsman (2017)

Book – ***** Dead Bomb Bingo Ray (2017)

Movie ****+ It (2017)

Book – ***+ Second Skin (2017)

Movie **** The Little Hours (2017)

Movie ***+ Columbus (2017)

Book – ***** Lucky Supreme (2017)

Movie *** Dunkirk (2017)

Movie **** The Big Sick (2017)

Movie ***+ Guardians of the Galaxy – vol. 2 (2017)

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