One Mann's Movies Film Review: Their Finest (2017).
Keep Calm and Carry on Writing. In a well-mined category, “Their Finest” is a World War 2 comedy/drama telling a tale I haven’t seen told before: the story behind the…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Sleepless (2017)
A potentially good ‘B’ movie undone. Ecclesiastes 1:9 came up with the oft used quote that “there is nothing new under the sun”. “Sleepless” proves that in spades. Bent copper…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
A robot you could take home to meet mother. I was intrigued to watch the other day (purely for the interest in the technology employed of course!) a short Guardian…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Fast and Furious 8 (2017)
Blood is thicker than Diesel. All work and no play makes bob-the-movie-man a tardy reviewer. Still, what better way to break the fast than with “Fast and Furious 8” (aka…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Free Fire (2017)
A movie with more than a whiff of cordite about it. As I write this, I’m really struggling to evaluate whether the latest film of Ben Wheatley (“High Rise”) is…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Loving (2017)
Hidden Vigour: Negga excels in another glimpse into America’s racist past. A few weeks ago when I reviewed “Hidden Figures” I pointed out the how absurd the racist behaviour at…
One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Christine (2016)
If it bleeds, it leads. Life is precious. Bad times always get good again eventually. Winter turns to spring and you feel the warmth of the sun on your face…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Life (2017)
Life after Gravity. Mankind is on the verge of a major milestone. The “Pilgrim” probe is returning from Mars containing soil samples that might spell the discovery of the first…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Tail as old as Kline. With the Disney marketing machine in full swing, its hard to separate the hype from the movie reality in this latest live-action remake of one…
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Viceroy's House (2017)
The 80:20 Rule. India, 1947. Churchill’s government has sent Lord Grantham – – sorry — Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville, “The Monuments Men“) as the new Viceroy. His…
