One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Double (2014)
The Double is the latest film from UK funny man Richard Ayoade (“Submarine”), and what an utterly depressing tale it is. Set in a dystopian world (future? past? it’s hard…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Non-Stop (2014)
There is something rather compelling about action films set on aircraft. The claustrophobic confinement and obvious dangers of guns, de-compressions and – erm – gravity naturally add to the sense…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Under the Skin (2014)
I was intrigued by this film: the Times reviewer gave it 5 stars; the Sunday Times reviewer gave it 1 star. Such diversity of view has to be investigated! Let’s…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the latest from Wes Anderson, and what great fun it is. My review of Monuments Men pointed out that putting the likes of George Clooney,…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Need for Speed (2014)
I’m a child of the 60’s, and to me as a young boy the films of the 60’s and 70’s that really spoke to me were those involving cars doing…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Monuments Men (2014)
The Monuments Men is allegedly a true story (though I suspect rather embellished) of a mission by allied art lovers to save the wealth of public and private art from…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Book Thief (2014)
When a film is narrated by Death himself, you know it’s not likely to be a laugh-a-minute sort of film. “The Book Thief” – a cinema feature debut by Brian…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Dallas Buyer’s Club (2014)
After “12 Years a Slave” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” I’d thought I’d seen all of the serious best actor candidates for this year. That was before I’d seen…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Wolf of Wall Street (2014)
The old student adage – “better a bottom in front of me than a frontal lobotomy’ – was never truer than in Martin Scorsese’s new film “The Wolf of Wall…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2014)
Oscar Isaac portrays the titular Llewyn Davis in the latest film from Ethan and Joel Coen: surely creating one of celluloid’s most memorable losers. This is a joyfully melancholic film,…