One Mann’s Movies Film Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
“10 Cloverfield Lane” makes you wonder how studio execs come up with film concepts… SCENE: The Production Office at Bad Robot. JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are sat in front…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Eddie the Eagle (2016)
The British love a plucky loser. “Eddie the Eagle” tells the astonishing but true story of everyman plasterer Eddie Edwards who qualified for, and then competed in, the Calgary Olympics…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Allegiant (2016)
Shailene Woodley is one of my favourite young actresses. Ever since she did that dramatic ‘crying-underwater’ scene in “The Descendents” she’s been someone to watch. And, while it was another…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Black Mass (2016)
The name James Bulger brings a chill to many older British people. For James was the little boy abducted from a shopping centre in 1993 by two older boys, murdered…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Hail Caesar! (2016)
In the Coen Brothers latest “Hail Caesar!” we have exactly the same Hollywood-based mix of communist writers and Hedda Hopper-style gossip columnists as recently seem in “Trumbo”: but the films…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Trumbo (2016)
Most countries have dark parts in their history, and America is no exception. Did you know for example that eugenics was actively practiced in the US during the 1920’s and…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: London Has Fallen (2016)
We’re barely into March, and already I think we’ve found Donald Trump’s favourite film of the year. In “London Has Fallen” the British Prime Minister has died suddenly and world…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Legend (2015)
Tom Hardy is a strange fish as an actor. Famous for being almost incomprehensible in “The Dark Night Rises” and almost equally incomprehensible in his co-starring role in “The Revenant”,…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Sicario (2015)
“This is the land of wolves now”. Sicario (‘Hitman’ in Mexican) is well worth your viewing time. The ever-reliable Emily Blunt excels here as FBI agent and hostage specialist Kate…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Zoolander 2 (2016)
In September 2001, a comedy classic opened in cinemas. Unfortunately, thanks to Al Qaeda, noone went to see it. Albeit coming in second place for box office in its opening…