One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Get Hard (2015)
Get Hard was a film I really wasn’t expecting to like much, but it was significantly funnier than I expected it to be. Will Ferrell’s films have had a tendency…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Terminator Genisys (2015)
“Old… not obsolete” – finally an Arnie catchphrase I can relate to! The Terminator is back, older, wiser and post Governorship. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns – against all the odds –…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jurassic World (2015)
A close family member invites two young relatives to enjoy the delights of a fully-populated prehistorically themed island, whilst meanwhile others with darker hearts have different plans for the revolutionary…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: San Andreas (2015)
In recent years Roland Emmerich has been the king of destruction on a worldwide scale with films like “The Day After Tomorrow”, “2012” and “Independence Day” (now – bizarrely and…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Now that 3D is becoming somewhat passé, I know some cinemas have been experimenting with 4D effects: moving seats, smells, effects, etc. Mad Max: Fury Road would be an excellent…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Although I’m a “man man man man manly man”… I must confess to really liking the original “Pitch Perfect”. Tuneful, funny, quirky and with a knock-out cup routine (that took…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Age of Adaline (2015)
(First of all, let me add that there is a minor plot-spoiler in this review, which I have left ‘til the penultimate paragraph: I point that out since I normally…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Far From The Madding Crowd (2015)
X-rated for Sheep. Based on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel (which I much shamefully admit I have never read), Far From the Madding Crowd tells the tale of Bathsheba Everdene’s rags-to-riches…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron is nonsense. But it is glossy, well-packaged and star-studded nonsense. Following on from the defeat of Thor’s brother in the last film, the story revolves around…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Focus
In “Focus” Will Smith plays Nicky, a con artist from a long lineage of con artists, who takes under his wing the beautiful and talented pickpocket Jess (Margot Robbie): a…