Mountainhead (2*): This Satirical Comedy of Shameless Tech Billionaires Is A Stylish Failure.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Mountainhead”. Great concept. Shame about the delivery. 2/5.
Adam McKay
Don’t Look Up (15): Why parody someone when you can parody a whole country?
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Don’t Look Up” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: I’m a fan of Adam McKay’s caustically satirical movies, with “The Big Short” (2015) and “Vice” (2018) being movies I can watch multiple times. But with “Don’t Look Up” I was really starting to wonder where he was going…. Plot … Read more
The Laundromat (15): Is this the worst title of any movie in film history?
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Laundromat” (2019). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: In “The Laundromat”, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) loses her husband Joe (James Cromwell) in a boating accident. She expects a multi-million dollar insurance payout, but is frustrated that the insurance companies evaporate in a miasma of shell-companies and double-dealing. … Read more
Bombshell (15): Sleazy old Fox.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Bombshell (2020). A finely made film, but one which didn’t connect 100% with me. 3.5/5.
Vice (15): Puppet on a Cheney.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Vice” (2019). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. By an strange coincidence, the morning after seeing this film, I heard on BBC Radio 4 a snippet of the farewell speech of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961. I thought there was no sound-bite summed up the film … Read more