One Mann's Movies Film Review: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
I’m a big fan of Tom Cruise. He is a real old-fashioned film star, generous with his fans on the red carpet and with real star power at the box…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Accountant (2016)
Rain Man with a Kalashnikov. (Another Bob the Movie Man Showcase Theatre). The scene: studio execs in a board room in Warner Brothers. Greg Silverman, head of Creative Development walks…
One Mann's Movies: The Girl on the Train (2016)
You won’t uncork a bottle of Malbec again without thinking of this film… “The Girl on a Train” is the film adaptation of the best-seller by Paula Hawkins, transported from…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Inferno (2016)
Infernal. Dan Brown has had a bad rap over the years from snobbish reviewers who dismiss his work as “trash”. I’m sure to a large degree the multi-millionaire Dan Brown…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Deepwater Horizon (2016)
“Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing” could be a summary of this modern-age disaster movie. In 2010 the “Deepwater Horizon” drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana failed in…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
A Hornery Exit. As a big fan of the original – a staple of many Bank Holiday afternoons in my youth – I was prepared to be sniffy about this…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
A film worth getting into your life. Reviewing documentaries is always a bit tricky, since it is often difficult to separate the quality of the film making from your emotional…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Me Before You (2016)
“You are scored on my heart Clark” “Me Before You” is a bit of a queer fish of a movie. It never quite decides whether it wants to be a…