One Mann’s Movies Great Oscar Best Film Challenge Crossword – 2019!
An Oscar themed Crossword for all you film geeks out there. All the clues are Best Picture winners, and you can submit your scores to enter the One Mann's Movies…
One Mann's Movies Concert Review: Michael Giacchino at 50 (2017).
In rather a departure from my normal posts, here’s a review of the epic concert held at the Royal Albert Hall in London last night (20th October 2017) to celebrate…
One Mann's Movies: news
I’m happy to be collaborating with @veboli_en as one of their personal movie advisors. A site that intelligently matches your film preferences to other films that you might like. Check…
On this day in movie history: 14th March 1975
In 1975 Monty Python tried to make a proper movie (unlike their first film in 1971 which was just a loosely coupled revamp of some of their TV sketches). Everyone…
On this day in movie history: March 9th 2006
On March 9th 2006, the epic free-running crane scene from “Casino Royale” was filmed. By this point in the film we had already had Daniel Craig’s brutal black and white…
On this day in movie history – March 8th 1998
On March 8th 1998, the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards gave a lifetime achievement award to Elizabeth Taylor, star of such classic films as “National Velvet”, “Butterfield 8”, Cleopatra and “Who’s…
One Mann's Movies: Comment on "Movies That Made Me"
Movie joy I found recently was a series of interviews called “Movies That Made Me” that Radio 1’s Ali Plumb has done with movie stars reviewing their past works. Some…
On this day in movie history…March 6th, 1927
On this day in 1927, Fritz Lang’s extraordinary film “Metropolis” was first shown in the US. “Metropolis” can claim to be the first feature length science fiction film. Set in…
On this day in movie history…March 3rd, 1930
Jean Harlow (b. 1911) was born. An early sex-symbol, “The Blonde Bombshell” was ‘found’ by Howard Hughes and launched into stardom through her appearance in 1930’s “Hell’s Angels”. She later…