One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Quick pop quiz: name the four actors who have played Tom Clancy’s CIA character Jack Ryan on film….? OK – I’ll give you a clue… Chris Pine plays the latest…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: 12 Years a Slave (2014)
(Republishing due to wordpress seeming to have thrown away my original post). I love this time of year in the run up to the Oscars when the real power-house films…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: American Hustle (2014)
As director David O Russell how to you follow the critical and financial success of Silver Linings Playbook? The answer is with American Hustle, and boy – what a double…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Anchorman 2 – The Legend Continues (2013)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues could have been cringe-worthily terrible: the desecration of the Mona Lisa with an aerosol spray can. But actually, it’s a pretty good attempt to recapture…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
In Peter Jackson’s second in the Hobbit trilogy (aka “stretching a slim story to 8 hours+”) Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) with Thorin (Richard Armitage) – the man who would be…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Saving Mr Banks (2013)
Mary Poppins is a special film for me. The first film I ever went to see at the cinema, perhaps even at the age of 3 when it first came…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
OK, so its not a ‘true’ feature film, but I did see it at the cinema, and in 3D. And as a lifelong Whovian I’m going to write about it…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Philomena (2013)
Philomena is a delight. You can truly tell that the summer blockbuster fan-boy films are all spent and we are seriously into Oscar nomination territory. Based on a true storm,…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Gravity (2013)
Excuse the pun, but this film is going to pull a lot of weight in the technical categories at the Oscars next year. It is a breathtaking piece of filmmaking,…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Captain Phillips (2013)
Zowie! Tom Hanks plays Captain Rich Phillips in what is definitely my favourite film of the year to date. The fact that this is a true story, and based on…