On this day in movie history…March 3rd, 1930
Jean Harlow (b. 1911) was born. An early sex-symbol, “The Blonde Bombshell” was ‘found’ by Howard Hughes and launched into stardom through her appearance in 1930’s “Hell’s Angels”. She later…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Great Wall (2017)
Exercising your Damons. Millions of people watching the Oscars would have seen Jimmy Kimmel roasting poor Matt Damon as a part of their long running ‘feud’. At one point he…
One Mann’s Movies Awards Special: 2017 Oscars – Will Win / Should Win / Did Win!
Will Win / Should Win / DID Win It’s time for “the big one” again. The Oscars will be awarded again on Sunday February 26th in LA (LA Land). Hosting…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Captain Fantastic (2016)
Dysfunctionally functional. The second of my catch-up films for next Sunday’s Oscars, this time featuring Viggo Mortensen who is up for a Best Actor Oscar. “Captain Fantastic” starts with a…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Hell or High Water (2016)
“Sometimes a blind pig finds a truffle”. One of the joys (and stresses) of the run up to the Oscar weekend is to try to catch all the major award…
One Mann's Movie Film Review: Hidden Figures (2017)
Putting the Race into Space Race. As a child of the early 60s, the ‘Space Race’, as started by John F. Kennedy in his famous speech announcing that America would…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Fences (2017)
The Last Post. In “Fences” Denzel Washington plays Troy – a bitter, self-centred and selfish man in his mid-fifties who loves the sound of his own voice. They say “empty…
One Mann's Movies Awards Special: 2017 BAFTA Awards – Will Win/Should Win
Will Win/Should Win/DID Win It’s that weekend again and time for the BAFTA Film awards 2017, taking place on Sunday February 12th in London and compered again by the inimitable…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Hacksaw Ridge (2017)
In God, and Doss, we Trust. Those dreaded words – “Based On A True Story” – emerge again from the blackness of the opening page. Actually, no. In a move…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Denial (2017)
Jewry Trial. It’s the mid-90’s and Deborah Lipstadt (Rachael Weisz, “The Lobster“), an American professor of Holocaust studies at a US university has written a book naming and shaming David…