One Mann’s Movies Special: The 2016 Academy Awards – Will Win; Should Win
After my decent effort (11/17) of predicting the 2016 BAFTA awards, it’s time to look at the BIG one: the 2016 Academy Award presentations to be made next Sunday, February…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Deadpool (2016)
How the hell do you review a film like Deadpool? It’s almost in a category of its own. Ryan Reynolds is no stranger to superhero pics: he played the disappointingly…
One Mann’s Movies Special: 2016 BAFTA Awards (Will Win/Should Win/DID Win)
OK – so it’s that time of year again, and time to put the proverbial member on the block and nail my predictions to the wall for the 2016 BAFTA…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Dad’s Army (2016)
As someone in his frisky fifties, I am old enough to remember the arrival on our British TV screens of the original Dad’s Army back in 1968. I can still…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Big Short (2016)
The Big Short is not an easy film to watch on a number of levels. At a basic level, and speaking as a pretty well-educated film-goer, it requires quite considerable…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Spotlight (2016)
“Spotlight” is the investigative team at the Boston Globe newspaper who focus on ‘big’ issues that they select to pursue – work that can take many months to come to…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Dirty Grandpa (2016)
Michael “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure” Caine has never been averse to starring in more than his fair share of turkeys. Talking about “Jaws: The Revenge” he once said: “I have…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Room (2016)
Room, based on the book by Emma Donoghue, starts on young Jack’s 5th birthday. He gets a birthday cake from his mother (but no candles); a visit from his father;…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Revenant (2016)
I went to see “The Revenant” on the day that it was nominated for 12 Oscars, which certainly sets the expectation that it is going to be good – and…
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Hateful 8 (2016)
I always approach a Quentin Tarantino film with a degree of nervous excitement. The nerves arise since the levels of gratuitous violence in his films is about 2 notches above…
