One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Martian (2015)
When I was a 10-year old kid my favourite TV programme was Gerry Anderson’s U.F.O. and my favourite EVER episode of that was one called “Survival”. In it, Colonel Paul…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Everest (2015)
Having just this week returned from climbing all 19,341 feet of Kilimanjaro, I find myself intimately capable of reviewing “Everest”, the new thriller from Icelandic director Baltamar Kormákur. Based on…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: No Escape (2015)
“No Escape” is set in an anonymous South East Asia country bordering Vietnam facing a violent civil war, with the uprising triggered by perceived foreign imperialist intervention. The film was…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Stylish, glamorous and cool is how I remember the “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” when growing up in the 60’s, with the incomparable Robert Vaughn playing the titular “Man” (Napoleon Solo,…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
As befits a film that could be subtitled “MI-5”, much of the action that underlies Tom Cruise’s latest outing as IMF agent Ethan Hunt is set in London and concerns…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Inside Out (2015)
Pixar have always specialised in making multi-layered films that can be enjoyed by both kids and adults in equal measure. They have also developed a truly astonishing ability to tap…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Ant Man (2015)
OK, so I will probably target the wrath of a legion of fanboys but as a PhD Physicist I will categorically state that much of the science in the Marvel…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Love and Mercy (2015)
During “Love and Mercy”, the new biopic on the life of Brian Wilson of Beach Boys fame, the words of my old maths teacher Mr Green came wafting through the…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Ted 2 (2015)
“Ted” divided most audiences: some loved it; some hated it; with few holding a middle ground. “Ted 2” is much of the same style of humour, so if easily offended…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Get Hard (2015)
Get Hard was a film I really wasn’t expecting to like much, but it was significantly funnier than I expected it to be. Will Ferrell’s films have had a tendency…