A Mann on a mission to review movies
A film worth getting into your life. Reviewing documentaries is always a bit tricky, since it is often difficult to separate the quality of the film making from your emotional…
“You are scored on my heart Clark” “Me Before You” is a bit of a queer fish of a movie. It never quite decides whether it wants to be a…
An Adam’s Apple for Teacher. I remember once having a ridiculous drunken dispute at a works Christmas party many year’s ago that went along the lines of “if you had…
Come the F*** on Bridget… who’s the Daddy? The world’s favourite lonely-hearts diarist is back. Bridget (Renée Zellweger) once again starts the film ‘all by herself’, haunted by occasional meetings…
Here comes Little Kevin, all grown up and blinded. “Don’t Breathe” had a concept that appealed to me. Three Detroit teens are systematically robbing houses of goods to pawn with…
The length of time it’s taken me to catch this one at the cinema belies my lukewarm interest in the material: I’m not a ‘fan boy’ for either Marvel or…
The Deathly Shallows, part 1 Every shark movie is inevitably compared (unfavourably) against Spielberg’s classic 1975 tourist-muncher. And “The Shallows” is no exception. But while not a 5-Fad classic, this…
A squirm-athon from beginning to end. “Life on the Road” is a mockumentary sequel to the classic British version of the TV comedy “The Office” (obviously later remade for the…
Penned by the writers of “The Hangover” (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore), this was a film I went into with really, really low expectations. But it was better than I…
With great internet power comes great irresponsibility. This is the premise behind “Nerve”, a film whose producers must have wet themselves with excitement that the Pokemon Go craze aligned so…