Some Like It Hot (12): “Ba-dee-dly-dee-dly-dee-dly-dum! Boop-boop-a-doop!”
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Some Like It Hot” (1959). On my Flickering Dreams podcast, we recently talked about our favorite movies by director Billy Wilder. Emma Sewell chose…
The Deepest Breath (12): See how long you last in that opening scene.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Deepest Breath” (2023). “The Deepest Breath” on Netflix is a hell-of-a-good documentary about the dangerous sport of free-diving. The goal is to take…
Talk To Me (15): A patchy start to this Australian horror that manages to deliver big in the close.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Talk to Me” (2023). I saw “Talk To Me” as a Cineworld Secret Cinema preview earlier in the week and it was preceded by…
“Flickering Dreams” Ep. 23: Reviews of Barbie, Oppenheimer, The Deepest Breath, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock and The Tunnel to Summer: The Exit of Goodbyes. We also pick our favourites films of Kathryn Bigalow.
In Episode 23 of Flickering Dreams I’m joined by Andy Godfrey of Sorted Magazine and Konnect Radio, Scott Forbes of The Forbes Film and TV Review and Emma Sewell of…
Oppenheimer (15): Fission + Fusion = Cinematic Brilliance.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Oppenheimer” (2023). The “Barbenheimer” tag for this week’s releases is slightly bonkers since you could hardly imagine two more different films than “Barbie” and…
Barbie (PG): In the great ‘beach-off’ between the Matriarchy and the Patriarchy… the women win.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Barbie” (2023). Wow, what an obvious shot-in-the-arm the much advertised “Barbenheimer” weekend is going to be for UK cinemas. As one of the cleaners…
The Infernal Machine (15): Guy Pearce carries an intriguing mystery thriller.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Infernal Machine” (2022). The last of my British-Airways-presented catch-up films from my recent trip, “The Infernal Machine” was one that I saw the…
Significant Other (15): A Dramatic Engagement in the Wilds of Oregon.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Significant Other” (2022). Another of the movies I saw on my recent trans-Atlantic trip with BA, this is available on the “Paramount+” streaming platform…
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 (12): Choose to Accept… the Impossible!
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” (2023). My chance to have another rant about the jokers who put the “Mission: Impossible” trailers together.…
Elemental (PG): A relationship where the sex gets steamy.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Elemental” (2023). This Disney/Pixar release had the worse opening of any of their films. But having said that, “Elemental” is currently (July 14th 2023)…