One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Why Will Smith is a wise, wise man. I’m catching up on a few of the big films I missed during 2016. But Roland Emmerich has a lot to answer…
One Mann's Movies: Sully (2016)
No, not “Monsters Inc 3”. Chesley Sullenberger was just a very experienced US Airways pilot starting an everyday job flying from LaGuardia airport in New York to Charlotte when fate…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Marvelous Cash Cows and How to Milk Them. As just about everyone in the whole muggle world (or nomaj world if you’re reading this in the States) knows, FBaWtFT is…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Putting the crisis into mid-life crisis. “Do you think your life has turned into something you never intended?” So asks Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) to her young assistant, who obviously…
One Mann's Movies: The Light Between Oceans (2016)
“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day”. In my review of “The Two Faces of January” I described it as…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Doctor Strange (2016)
Well multiversed. In the latest Marvel film (notably now available with the snazzy new Marvel production logo at the start) Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock”, “Star Trek Into Darkness”) plays the titular…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Arrival (2016)
Wow – what a surprise. Sometimes I can get very irritated by a trailer for giving too much away (case in point, “Room” – which I recut – and more…
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…