One Mann’s Movies- The Best Films of 2016
(This is a re-publish of the post made on 31st December, but with a much tightened-up video and the text presentation of the top 10 added). I’ve gone video for…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Rogue One (2016)
Putting the “Wars” back into “Star Wars”. Expectations have been sky-high for this first in the ‘add-in’ series of Star Wars films. But with director Gareth Edwards at the helm,…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Love and Friendship (2016)
Beckinsale excels in a comic tale of Girl Power in the 1790’s. Set in 1790, Kate Beckinsale plays Lady Susan Vernon, an 18th century cuckoo-like ‘MILF’ (actually, more ‘LILF’, but…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Central Intelligence (2016)
Great poster. So-so film. “Saving the World Takes a Little Hart and a Big Johnson”. I doubt I have ever passed a film poster before and dissolved into paroxysms of…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Why Will Smith is a wise, wise man. I’m catching up on a few of the big films I missed during 2016. But Roland Emmerich has a lot to answer…
One Mann's Movies: Sully (2016)
No, not “Monsters Inc 3”. Chesley Sullenberger was just a very experienced US Airways pilot starting an everyday job flying from LaGuardia airport in New York to Charlotte when fate…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Marvelous Cash Cows and How to Milk Them. As just about everyone in the whole muggle world (or nomaj world if you’re reading this in the States) knows, FBaWtFT is…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Putting the crisis into mid-life crisis. “Do you think your life has turned into something you never intended?” So asks Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) to her young assistant, who obviously…
One Mann's Movies: The Light Between Oceans (2016)
“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day”. In my review of “The Two Faces of January” I described it as…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Doctor Strange (2016)
Well multiversed. In the latest Marvel film (notably now available with the snazzy new Marvel production logo at the start) Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock”, “Star Trek Into Darkness”) plays the titular…