One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jersey Boys (2014)
Biopics, especially musical biopics, often tell the blood sweat and tears story of singers/songwriters rising from deprived childhoods or troubled backgrounds (queue ‘X-factor’ style soulful music) before finding fortune and…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Comedy westerns have a strong legacy through classics like Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles”, “Support your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter” (with James Garner), “Paleface” and “Son of Paleface” (with Bob Hope and Jane…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Maleficent (2014)
I’m always a sucker for a good story, and you have to admit that – at their hearts – some of the fairy tales are corkers. Sleeping Beauty is a…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
“They say we’re young and we don’t know. Won’t find out unit-ii-l we grow.” This line of Sonny and Cher immediately takes me back to Bill Murray waking up over…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Godzilla (2014)
A terrifying creature is approaching the coast and Brody – half crazed with fear and loss – is trying to convince sceptical authorities of the impending disaster without success. And…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
OK, OK…. so if I’m not exactly the last person (who wanted) to see this at the cinema to actually go and see it then I must be NEARLY the…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Two Faces of January (2014)
(All work and no play makes the Fad a very poor film reviewer! My apologies to my regular blog followers for the lack of recent posts). The Two Faces of…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Double (2014)
The Double is the latest film from UK funny man Richard Ayoade (“Submarine”), and what an utterly depressing tale it is. Set in a dystopian world (future? past? it’s hard…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Non-Stop (2014)
There is something rather compelling about action films set on aircraft. The claustrophobic confinement and obvious dangers of guns, de-compressions and – erm – gravity naturally add to the sense…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Under the Skin (2014)
I was intrigued by this film: the Times reviewer gave it 5 stars; the Sunday Times reviewer gave it 1 star. Such diversity of view has to be investigated! Let’s…