One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Girl With All The Gifts (2016)
An Adam’s Apple for Teacher. I remember once having a ridiculous drunken dispute at a works Christmas party many year’s ago that went along the lines of “if you had…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Come the F*** on Bridget… who’s the Daddy? The world’s favourite lonely-hearts diarist is back. Bridget (Renée Zellweger) once again starts the film ‘all by herself’, haunted by occasional meetings…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Don't Breathe (2016)
Here comes Little Kevin, all grown up and blinded. “Don’t Breathe” had a concept that appealed to me. Three Detroit teens are systematically robbing houses of goods to pawn with…
One Mann's Movies: Suicide Squad (2016)
The length of time it’s taken me to catch this one at the cinema belies my lukewarm interest in the material: I’m not a ‘fan boy’ for either Marvel or…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Shallows (2016)
The Deathly Shallows, part 1 Every shark movie is inevitably compared (unfavourably) against Spielberg’s classic 1975 tourist-muncher. And “The Shallows” is no exception. But while not a 5-Fad classic, this…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)
A squirm-athon from beginning to end. “Life on the Road” is a mockumentary sequel to the classic British version of the TV comedy “The Office” (obviously later remade for the…
One Mann's Movies Review: Bad Moms (2016)
Penned by the writers of “The Hangover” (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore), this was a film I went into with really, really low expectations. But it was better than I…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Nerve (2016)
With great internet power comes great irresponsibility. This is the premise behind “Nerve”, a film whose producers must have wet themselves with excitement that the Pokemon Go craze aligned so…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Star Trek Beyond (2016)
OK, so I’m a Star Trek fan being old enough to have watched the original series BEFORE it was in re-runs! But Star Trek Beyond just plain disappoints. It’s not…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jason Bourne (2016)
Bourne Free. I’ll say straight up that I’m a big fan of Bourne. This is his 4th proper outing as our forgetful hero, if you ignore 2012’s “The Bourne Legacy”…