Alicia Vikander

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

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Stylish, glamorous and cool is how I remember the “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” when growing up in the 60’s, with the incomparable Robert Vaughn playing the titular “Man” (Napoleon Solo, famously named by Ian Fleming no less) and with David McCallum having a rapidly increasing presence as his Russian colleague Illya Kuryakin.  I must have … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Ex Machina (2015)

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Ex Machina has a simple story dealing with a deeply complex and philosophical topic:  namely what makes humans human. The increasingly omnipresent Oscar Isaac plays billionaire Nathan Bates, genius creator of ‘Google’ – my mistake – ‘BlueBook’, the world’s “leading search engine”.  Living in the middle of the American wilderness (in reality, a very picturesque … Read more