One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Equalizer (2014)
Is it ever right for a regular citizen with the ‘appropriate’ skills to go vigilante and stand up to wrong-doing and a corrupt justice system? In the TV show of…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
“Demanding is over-rated” said a wise woman, who I also happen to be married to. Woody Allen’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight, is a light and fluffy piece of…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Sex Tape (2014)
Cameron Diaz is someone that must be so, SO depressing for many middle-aged women. Bursting onto the screen like a shimmering vision of hotness in “The Mask” when only 21…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Before I Go To Sleep (2014)
“Before I Go To Sleep” is an effective psychological thriller. Nicole Kidman plays Christine Lucas, someone who if she saw “50 First Dates” wouldn’t remember it the morning afterwards! She…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
The Hundred-Foot Journey is based on the novel by Richard C. Morais. It tells the story of the combative relationship between an Indian family, headed by ‘Papa’ (Om Puri), who…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Pride (2014)
Probably few things have divided the British people more in the last forty years than Margaret Thatcher’s time as Conservative leader. The pivot point for that hatred/worship was the protracted…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: As Above, So Below (2014)
“As Above, So Below” is mutton dressed up as lamb. A movie with such a marketing budget behind it should never be trusted. It starts with an Indiana Jones sort…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret) (2014)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret) is a Danish movie with subtitles, which might immediately put some of you off – – but you should definitely give this…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Sin City 2 – A Dame to Kill For (2014)
So, I ignored what they said see and went to Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For. Guess I was born at night too. But not last night. And…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Lucy (2014)
Luc Besson has always tended towards strikingly different movies – “Leon the Professional” and “The Fifth Element” being cases in point… strange blue alien woman doing soprano opera anyone? “Lucy”,…