One Mann’s Movies Film Review: World War Z (2013)
OK, I confess. I really didn’t want to like this film. It has all the makings of a real turkey… a zombie movie with a Z in the title… isn’t…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Man of Steel (2013)
Christopher Nolan has a lot to answer for with Batman Begins in bringing to the world of cinema the concept of ‘the reboot’. Before that film, fictional characters were deemed…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Behind the Candelabra is not for the prudish or the homophobic. It tells the no holds barred story of Lee Liberace – an entertainer who astonishingly hid his homosexual status…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Great Gatsby (2013)
Adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel seems fraught with danger, as film critics and lovers of the book will sharpen their barbs to fire at any such film sticking its…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Star Trek – Into Darkness (2013)
(It is almost impossible to give a review of this film without spreading spoilers. I will be careful: others may be less so… so I suggest you avoid reviews for…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Iron Man Three (2013)
After the relative disappointment of Iron Man 2, I really wasn’t sure I wanted to pay good money to see Iron Man Three (what, numerals are out of vogue this…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
You can almost imagine the script meeting for this one. “So we need a president in peril film” – “How about on his plane?” – Good, but already done” –…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: A Late Quartet (2013)
Christopher Walken gives the standout performance in this melodramatic story of a famous musical quartet torn apart by illness, internal-power play and underlying passions. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Good Vibrations (2013)
This is a cracking film. Good Vibrations tells the bizarre but largely true story of Terri Hooley. Terri (who strikes me as someone that should be more of a legend…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Trance
Danny Boyle’s latest is an intoxicating mix of heist movies like the Bank Job, Inception, Memento and with the hallucination scenes from Boyle’s 127 Hours thrown in. James McAvoy plays…