One Mann's Movies: The Girl on the Train (2016)
You won’t uncork a bottle of Malbec again without thinking of this film… “The Girl on a Train” is the film adaptation of the best-seller by Paula Hawkins, transported from…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Inferno (2016)
Infernal. Dan Brown has had a bad rap over the years from snobbish reviewers who dismiss his work as “trash”. I’m sure to a large degree the multi-millionaire Dan Brown…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Deepwater Horizon (2016)
“Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing” could be a summary of this modern-age disaster movie. In 2010 the “Deepwater Horizon” drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana failed in…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
A Hornery Exit. As a big fan of the original – a staple of many Bank Holiday afternoons in my youth – I was prepared to be sniffy about this…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Me Before You (2016)
“You are scored on my heart Clark” “Me Before You” is a bit of a queer fish of a movie. It never quite decides whether it wants to be a…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Girl With All The Gifts (2016)
An Adam’s Apple for Teacher. I remember once having a ridiculous drunken dispute at a works Christmas party many year’s ago that went along the lines of “if you had…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Come the F*** on Bridget… who’s the Daddy? The world’s favourite lonely-hearts diarist is back. Bridget (Renée Zellweger) once again starts the film ‘all by herself’, haunted by occasional meetings…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Don't Breathe (2016)
Here comes Little Kevin, all grown up and blinded. “Don’t Breathe” had a concept that appealed to me. Three Detroit teens are systematically robbing houses of goods to pawn with…
One Mann's Movies: Suicide Squad (2016)
The length of time it’s taken me to catch this one at the cinema belies my lukewarm interest in the material: I’m not a ‘fan boy’ for either Marvel or…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Shallows (2016)
The Deathly Shallows, part 1 Every shark movie is inevitably compared (unfavourably) against Spielberg’s classic 1975 tourist-muncher. And “The Shallows” is no exception. But while not a 5-Fad classic, this…