One Mann’s Movies Film Review – This Is Us
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 –…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review – Elysium
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…
One Mann’s Movie’s Film Review: Alan Partridge – Alpha Papa (2013)
“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…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The World’s End (2013)
The World’s End is Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s final film in the so-called “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy, following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. (This is…
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…