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,…
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…