One Mann's Movies: Manchester By The Sea (2017)
Wow! I’d heard all about the Oscar hype surrounding this film but to be honest, while I thought I would be seeing a solid and well-made indie film, I went…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Jackie (2017)
Spoiler! Her husband gets shot. “Jackie” tells the story of the spiralling grief, loss and anger of Jackie Kennedy driven by the assassination of JFK in Dallas in November 1963.…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Live by Night (2017)
“Sleep by day…”. Ben Affleck’s new movie could best be described as “sprawling”. In both directing and writing the screenplay (based on a novel by Dennis Lehane), Affleck has aimed…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: La La Land (2017)
“It’s very nostalgic – will people like it?” A little film. Not sure whether you might have heard of it yet? Damien Chazelle has followed up his astonishingly proficient “Whiplash”…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: A Monster Calls (2017)
“I’ll. Be. Right. Here.” The worst thing about this movie is its title. The second worst thing about this movie is its trailer. Both will either a) put people off…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Passengers (2017)
Guilt trip. “Passengers” is not a film that you can really talk about in much depth without straying into spoiler territory, so I will break my normal tradition of my…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Rogue One (2016)
Putting the “Wars” back into “Star Wars”. Expectations have been sky-high for this first in the ‘add-in’ series of Star Wars films. But with director Gareth Edwards at the helm,…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Love and Friendship (2016)
Beckinsale excels in a comic tale of Girl Power in the 1790’s. Set in 1790, Kate Beckinsale plays Lady Susan Vernon, an 18th century cuckoo-like ‘MILF’ (actually, more ‘LILF’, but…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Central Intelligence (2016)
Great poster. So-so film. “Saving the World Takes a Little Hart and a Big Johnson”. I doubt I have ever passed a film poster before and dissolved into paroxysms of…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Why Will Smith is a wise, wise man. I’m catching up on a few of the big films I missed during 2016. But Roland Emmerich has a lot to answer…