One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Philomena (2013)
Philomena is a delight. You can truly tell that the summer blockbuster fan-boy films are all spent and we are seriously into Oscar nomination territory. Based on a true storm,…
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Philomena is a delight. You can truly tell that the summer blockbuster fan-boy films are all spent and we are seriously into Oscar nomination territory. Based on a true storm,…
Excuse the pun, but this film is going to pull a lot of weight in the technical categories at the Oscars next year. It is a breathtaking piece of filmmaking,…
Zowie! Tom Hanks plays Captain Rich Phillips in what is definitely my favourite film of the year to date. The fact that this is a true story, and based on…
A short review this time, as with my second daughter getting married at the end of this week, I have wedding stuff to do! Le-Weekend is the latest from Roger…
I have to admit that all I knew about Leith, before looking it up on Google Maps, was that in the famous tongue-twister the police from there “dismissive up”. But…
Whilst opinion has it that he should have followed through and made “Willow 2” (if you haven’t seen the “Life’s Too Short” special by Warwick Davis/Ricky Gervais, you really should!),…
Not sure what happened to this review on WordPress… got accidently deleted. Fad Rating: FFF.
OK – so, I said I would write a film review for every film I see at the cinema – no exceptions. So, despite being something of a drag-along –…
Elysium is the follow up film from Neill Blomkamp to his much (and quite rightly) lauded intelligent sci-fi film “District 9”. Many of the themes of that classic – prejudice…
“Porridge”, “On The Buses”, “Are You Being Served?”, Morecambe and Wise – all classic British TV shows that largely crashed and burned when ported to the big screen. So it…