One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Whiplash (2015)
Whiplash is simply astonishing. Miles Teller plays Andrew, a gifted and highly ambitious drummer in his first year at an elite New York music academy. There his talents are spotted…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Hobbit : The Battle of the Five Armies (2015)
The Battle of the Armies ends Peter Jackson’s six-film and almost 15-year love affair with the works of Tolkein (ends, that is, unless he starts dredging up some of the…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Woman in Black 2 – The Angel of Death (2015)
The clumsily titled “The Woman in Black 2: The Angel of Death” is a Hammer horror sequel to the very effective 2012 horror vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe, which itself was…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Theory of Everything (2015)
The Theory of Everything is an extremely moving love story concerning the brilliant British scientist Stephen Hawking and his first marriage. Whilst you may need a PhD in Physics to…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Black Sea (2014)
The title of the film – Black Sea – is both descriptive and geographic. Jude Law plays Robinson, a submarine captain put out to graze by his salvage company who…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Imitation Game (2014)
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine. “ Few injustices in the world have equalled that meted out…
Interstellar (12): Loud, bombastic, sometimes indecipherable, but brilliant.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Interstellar” (2014). (Restructured following a 2024 re-release watch at the cinema.) Wowser! “Interstellar”, Christopher Nolan’s new film, was presaged with such marketing hype that…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Fury (2014)
“Ideals are peaceful, History is violent” I can’t make my mind up about “Fury”. As an escapist war film, it delivers well in a clichéd sort of way. But is…
One mann’s Movies Film Review: The Judge (2014)
Based on the trailer, my anticipation for seeing “The Judge” was high – – Robert Downey Jnr, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob Thornton… great cast. And whilst the film…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Gone Girl (2014)
(Note that this review will be specifically spoiler free!) One of the year’s most anticipated films, David Fincher’s Gone Girl doesn’t disappoint delivering a stylish and sophisticated cinematic punch to…