A One Mann’s Movies review of “Ballad of a Small Player” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 5*, ’15’). I really can’t see how I can avoid it. But my Top 10 for 2025 looks destined to have TWO films with the title “Ballad of” in the title (with the other of course being … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Phoenician Scheme”. Wes Anderson delivers artfully clever entertainment. 4/5.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Blitz”. Steve McQueen’s London epic as a young boy fights the odds to return home. Impressive. 4.5/5.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Forgiven” (2022). Given the run of generally dodgy films that have been coming out recently in this arse-end of the summer season, “The Forgiven” dipped into cinemas for what seemed like a single week and then was gone again. But unlike some of those other movies, this was … Read more
When you see vagrants sleeping rough in doorways it is grimly fascinating to wonder how they got there. Was it a gradual descent due to drink or drugs? Or was it an ‘explosive decompression’ – an event so dramatic it capsized an otherwise stable existence? In a gripping pre-title sequence, it is the latter that sets … Read more