On this day in movie history: 14th March 1975
In 1975 Monty Python tried to make a proper movie (unlike their first film in 1971 which was just a…
A Mann on a mission to review movies
In 1975 Monty Python tried to make a proper movie (unlike their first film in 1971 which was just a…
Movie joy I found recently was a series of interviews called “Movies That Made Me” that Radio 1’s Ali Plumb has…
A Marathon Investigation. While there are predictable social media conspiracy theories that the “whole thing was a hoax”, the two…
Eels well that ends well. “A Cure for Wellness” is the latest film from Gore Verbinski, who has delivered an…
Jean Harlow (b. 1911) was born. An early sex-symbol, “The Blonde Bombshell” was ‘found’ by Howard Hughes and launched into…
Exercising your Damons. Millions of people watching the Oscars would have seen Jimmy Kimmel roasting poor Matt Damon as a…
Will Win / Should Win / DID Win It’s time for “the big one” again. The Oscars will…
Dysfunctionally functional. The second of my catch-up films for next Sunday’s Oscars, this time featuring Viggo Mortensen who is up…
Putting the Race into Space Race. As a child of the early 60s, the ‘Space Race’, as started by John…
The Last Post. In “Fences” Denzel Washington plays Troy – a bitter, self-centred and selfish man in his mid-fifties who…