A Mann on a mission to review movies
In Peter Jackson’s second in the Hobbit trilogy (aka “stretching a slim story to 8 hours+”) Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) with Thorin (Richard Armitage) – the man who would be…
Mary Poppins is a special film for me. The first film I ever went to see at the cinema, perhaps even at the age of 3 when it first came…
OK, so its not a ‘true’ feature film, but I did see it at the cinema, and in 3D. And as a lifelong Whovian I’m going to write about it…
Philomena is a delight. You can truly tell that the summer blockbuster fan-boy films are all spent and we are seriously into Oscar nomination territory. Based on a true storm,…
Excuse the pun, but this film is going to pull a lot of weight in the technical categories at the Oscars next year. It is a breathtaking piece of filmmaking,…
Zowie! Tom Hanks plays Captain Rich Phillips in what is definitely my favourite film of the year to date. The fact that this is a true story, and based on…
A short review this time, as with my second daughter getting married at the end of this week, I have wedding stuff to do! Le-Weekend is the latest from Roger…
I have to admit that all I knew about Leith, before looking it up on Google Maps, was that in the famous tongue-twister the police from there “dismissive up”. But…
Whilst opinion has it that he should have followed through and made “Willow 2” (if you haven’t seen the “Life’s Too Short” special by Warwick Davis/Ricky Gervais, you really should!),…
Not sure what happened to this review on WordPress… got accidently deleted. Fad Rating: FFF.