One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Need for Speed (2014)
I’m a child of the 60’s, and to me as a young boy the films of the 60’s and 70’s that really spoke to me were those involving cars doing…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Monuments Men (2014)
The Monuments Men is allegedly a true story (though I suspect rather embellished) of a mission by allied art lovers to save the wealth of public and private art from…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Book Thief (2014)
When a film is narrated by Death himself, you know it’s not likely to be a laugh-a-minute sort of film. “The Book Thief” – a cinema feature debut by Brian…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Dallas Buyer’s Club (2014)
After “12 Years a Slave” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” I’d thought I’d seen all of the serious best actor candidates for this year. That was before I’d seen…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Wolf of Wall Street (2014)
The old student adage – “better a bottom in front of me than a frontal lobotomy’ – was never truer than in Martin Scorsese’s new film “The Wolf of Wall…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2014)
Oscar Isaac portrays the titular Llewyn Davis in the latest film from Ethan and Joel Coen: surely creating one of celluloid’s most memorable losers. This is a joyfully melancholic film,…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Quick pop quiz: name the four actors who have played Tom Clancy’s CIA character Jack Ryan on film….? OK – I’ll give you a clue… Chris Pine plays the latest…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: 12 Years a Slave (2014)
(Republishing due to wordpress seeming to have thrown away my original post). I love this time of year in the run up to the Oscars when the real power-house films…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: American Hustle (2014)
As director David O Russell how to you follow the critical and financial success of Silver Linings Playbook? The answer is with American Hustle, and boy – what a double…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Anchorman 2 – The Legend Continues (2013)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues could have been cringe-worthily terrible: the desecration of the Mona Lisa with an aerosol spray can. But actually, it’s a pretty good attempt to recapture…