One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Daddy’s Home 2 (2017).
Some good comedy moments drowned in schmaltz. Comedy and tragedy have always gone together hand-in-hand. Every great comedy tends to have its bitter-sweet moments: Roberts Blossom as the “shovel-killer” grandad…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
The most fun you can have with Jack Black’s penis. In 1995, Joe Johnston (“The Rocketeer”, “Captain America: The First Avenger”) directed “Jumanji” – a quirky, fantastical and dark film…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Battle of the Sexes (2017).
Tennis and sex, but without the grunting. Here’s a good test of someone’s age…. ask the question “Billie-Jean?”. Millennials will probably come back with “Huh?”; those in their 30’s or…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).
It’s Star Wars, but it’s inconsistent Star Wars. (This review will be specifically spoiler-free: a spoiler section is included below the trailer video, but only read this AFTER you’ve seen…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Table 19 (2017).
Mean spirited and atrocious. I really hated this film. There. BOOM. Got it off my chest. It all starts so promisingly, with a scene of Anna Kendrick (“The Accountant“, who…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: A United Kingdom (2016).
“In to Africa”. I managed to miss this film when it was first shown at the end of 2016. And what a shame as it would have UNDOUBTEDLY made my…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Churchill (2017).
“We will bore them on the beaches”. “Churchill” tells the story of the great leader’s extreme opposition to “Operation Overlord”, the Eisenhower-led invasion of Normandy in 1944 that ultimately led…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Get Out (2017).
“It really doesn’t matter if you’re ‘Black or White”. Due to a mixture of holiday, work commitments and sickness (I would not wish to inflict my bronchial cough on ANY…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
You’ll never guess who dunnit… There’s a big problem with Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 filming of the Hercule Poirot-based murder mystery…. and that’s the 1974 Sidney Lumet classic featuring Albert Finney…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: The Circle (2017).
Social Media involvement in political manipulation? Don’t be ridiculous! Set in the near future “The Circle” tells a horror story of the social media age involving an omnipotent American corporate,…