One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was a surprise hit in 2012, leveraging the “oldies” out of their armchairs and into the cinemas in droves: the film returned around 15 times…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Selma (2015)
Last year’s “Pride” brilliantly demonstrated how far gay rights have come in the UK in 30 years. Selma does an equally superb job in showing how far racial equality has…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Matthew Vaughn, who’s previous films in the director’s chair number just four – “Layer Cake”, “Stardust”, “Kick Ass” and “X-Men: First Class” – does not do subtle. But he certainly…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: American Sniper (2015)
Clint Eastwood has become a highly respected figure in the film industry. His iconic acting would have got him there, but add on his prolific film score composing and the…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Ex Machina (2015)
Ex Machina has a simple story dealing with a deeply complex and philosophical topic: namely what makes humans human. The increasingly omnipresent Oscar Isaac plays billionaire Nathan Bates, genius creator…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Foxcatcher (2015)
Every comedian clearly has a burning desire to be seen as a “serious actor” at least once in their career: Jim Carrey had his “Truman Show”; Steve Coogan wrote himself…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Birdman (2015)
At one point in Birdman “or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)“, Michael Keaton as ‘celebrity turned serious actor’ Riggan Thomson rants at a vicious New York Times critic Tabitha (the…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Taken 3 (2015)
This review could get me into trouble – a lot of trouble: my wife LOVED “Taken”, LOVED the slightly dodgier “Taken 2″ and even LOVED “Taken 2.5: he flies!” (a.k.a.…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Whiplash (2015)
Whiplash is simply astonishing. Miles Teller plays Andrew, a gifted and highly ambitious drummer in his first year at an elite New York music academy. There his talents are spotted…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Hobbit : The Battle of the Five Armies (2015)
The Battle of the Armies ends Peter Jackson’s six-film and almost 15-year love affair with the works of Tolkein (ends, that is, unless he starts dredging up some of the…