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…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Inferno (2016)
Infernal. Dan Brown has had a bad rap over the years from snobbish reviewers who dismiss his work as “trash”. I’m sure to a large degree the multi-millionaire Dan Brown…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Deepwater Horizon (2016)
“Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing” could be a summary of this modern-age disaster movie. In 2010 the “Deepwater Horizon” drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana failed in…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
A Hornery Exit. As a big fan of the original – a staple of many Bank Holiday afternoons in my youth – I was prepared to be sniffy about this…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
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…