One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Pitch Perfect 3 (2017).
Aca-bysmal. Mr Plot and Miss Tale were teenage sweethearts. They met at Storyville High School and inseparable, but were viciously cursed by a jealous school nurse, bitter from a recent…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Daddy’s Home 2 (2017).
Some good comedy moments drowned in schmaltz. Comedy and tragedy have always gone together hand-in-hand. Every great comedy tends to have its bitter-sweet moments: Roberts Blossom as the “shovel-killer” grandad…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
The most fun you can have with Jack Black’s penis. In 1995, Joe Johnston (“The Rocketeer”, “Captain America: The First Avenger”) directed “Jumanji” – a quirky, fantastical and dark film…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Battle of the Sexes (2017).
Tennis and sex, but without the grunting. Here’s a good test of someone’s age…. ask the question “Billie-Jean?”. Millennials will probably come back with “Huh?”; those in their 30’s or…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).
It’s Star Wars, but it’s inconsistent Star Wars. (This review will be specifically spoiler-free: a spoiler section is included below the trailer video, but only read this AFTER you’ve seen…
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: 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…