One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Lady in the Van (2015)
When you see vagrants sleeping rough in doorways it is grimly fascinating to wonder how they got there. Was it a gradual descent due to drink or drugs? Or was…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Brooklyn (2015)
Brooklyn tells the riches to riches story of a pampered child growing up in the care of his famous Premier League footballing father (Joe Pasquale) and his undernourished pop-star mother…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Program (2015)
I can see this film dividing opinion, since bike fanatics (of which the UK has a high number) will seek to pick holes in the reality of the story and…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Spectre (2015)
Spectre is premium Bond. But it’s not quite the perfect film that the hype of the 5* reviews might suggest. We learn a few new things: some more of the…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Lobster (2015)
I can only hope that the creators of “The Lobster” – Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos and his co-writer Efthymis Filippou – find treatment at a good drug-rehabilitation clinic. A black…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Suffragette (2015)
Whilst most men would agree that giving women the vote was a dreadful mistake (put that stone down ladies…. it’s just a joke), the astonishing story behind the UK social…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Martian (2015)
When I was a 10-year old kid my favourite TV programme was Gerry Anderson’s U.F.O. and my favourite EVER episode of that was one called “Survival”. In it, Colonel Paul…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Everest (2015)
Having just this week returned from climbing all 19,341 feet of Kilimanjaro, I find myself intimately capable of reviewing “Everest”, the new thriller from Icelandic director Baltamar Kormákur. Based on…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: No Escape (2015)
“No Escape” is set in an anonymous South East Asia country bordering Vietnam facing a violent civil war, with the uprising triggered by perceived foreign imperialist intervention. The film was…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Stylish, glamorous and cool is how I remember the “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” when growing up in the 60’s, with the incomparable Robert Vaughn playing the titular “Man” (Napoleon Solo,…