A One Mann’s Movies review of “Knock at the Cabin” (2023). I well remember an argument at a works Christmas party many years ago. The (ludicrous) proposition was that if you could save everyone else in the world at the cost of sacrificing your child, would you do it? The two combatents on each side … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Promising Young Woman” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: “Promising Young Woman” sees Cassie (Carrie Mulligan) out to wage war on predatory men sexually asserting themselves on vulnerable woman in bars. But with the chance mention of a name, her mission takes on a whole new level … Read more
One Mann’s Movies review of “Unhinged” with Russell Crowe. A tense, gory (for a 15) thriller which won’t make you reach for that horn so readily when driving! 3.5/5.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bad Times at the El Royale” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. Imagine a mĂ©nage Ă trois of Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino at the Overlook Hotel with a banging 60’s soundtrack. Got that unpleasant vision in your mind? Good! You’re halfway there … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Searching” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 12; US: PG-13. There have been many movies that have featured computing and, more specifically, social media at their heart. Some these have used the device of the view “from the screen”: 2016’s entertaining “Nerve” had elements of this, with the … Read more