One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Table 19 (2017).
Mean spirited and atrocious. I really hated this film. There. BOOM. Got it off my chest. It all starts so promisingly, with a scene of Anna Kendrick (“The Accountant“, who…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: A United Kingdom (2016).
“In to Africa”. I managed to miss this film when it was first shown at the end of 2016. And what a shame as it would have UNDOUBTEDLY made my…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Churchill (2017).
“We will bore them on the beaches”. “Churchill” tells the story of the great leader’s extreme opposition to “Operation Overlord”, the Eisenhower-led invasion of Normandy in 1944 that ultimately led…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Get Out (2017).
“It really doesn’t matter if you’re ‘Black or White”. Due to a mixture of holiday, work commitments and sickness (I would not wish to inflict my bronchial cough on ANY…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
You’ll never guess who dunnit… There’s a big problem with Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 filming of the Hercule Poirot-based murder mystery…. and that’s the 1974 Sidney Lumet classic featuring Albert Finney…
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: The Circle (2017).
Social Media involvement in political manipulation? Don’t be ridiculous! Set in the near future “The Circle” tells a horror story of the social media age involving an omnipotent American corporate,…
One Mann's Movies Film Review – Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Guaranteeing a “safe passage through the anus”! I’m neither a Marvel fan, nor (in particular) a Thor fan….. but I have to admit “Thor: Ragnarok” was brilliant from beginning to…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Snowman (2017).
“We’re trudging through the slush”. Unlike its animated namesake, “The Snowman” is not a good film. Frustratingly it has all the right ingredients: A story by bestselling Nordic writer Jo…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Death of Stalin (2017).
Death…. Torture…. Child Abuse…. LOL?? Armando Iannucci is most familiar to TV audiences on both sides of the pond for his cutting political satire of the likes of “Veep” and…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017).
Vaughn and Golding cross the pond to deliver more of the same. You would probably need to be living under a rock not to know that “Kingsman: The Golden Circle”…