One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
In Peter Jackson’s second in the Hobbit trilogy (aka “stretching a slim story to 8 hours+”) Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) with Thorin (Richard Armitage) – the man who would be…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Saving Mr Banks (2013)
Mary Poppins is a special film for me. The first film I ever went to see at the cinema, perhaps even at the age of 3 when it first came…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
OK, so its not a ‘true’ feature film, but I did see it at the cinema, and in 3D. And as a lifelong Whovian I’m going to write about it…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Philomena (2013)
Philomena is a delight. You can truly tell that the summer blockbuster fan-boy films are all spent and we are seriously into Oscar nomination territory. Based on a true storm,…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Gravity (2013)
Excuse the pun, but this film is going to pull a lot of weight in the technical categories at the Oscars next year. It is a breathtaking piece of filmmaking,…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Captain Phillips (2013)
Zowie! Tom Hanks plays Captain Rich Phillips in what is definitely my favourite film of the year to date. The fact that this is a true story, and based on…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Le-Weekend (2013)
A short review this time, as with my second daughter getting married at the end of this week, I have wedding stuff to do! Le-Weekend is the latest from Roger…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Sunshine on Leith (2013)
I have to admit that all I knew about Leith, before looking it up on Google Maps, was that in the famous tongue-twister the police from there “dismissive up”. But…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Rush (2013)
Whilst opinion has it that he should have followed through and made “Willow 2” (if you haven’t seen the “Life’s Too Short” special by Warwick Davis/Ricky Gervais, you really should!),…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: About Time (2013)
Not sure what happened to this review on WordPress… got accidently deleted. Fad Rating: FFF.