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The Conjuring: Last Rites (2*): Throwing Everything But the Kitchen Sink at the Screen.**

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** Actually, no, the kitchen sink is included as well. A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Conjuring: Last Rites” (2025, 2*, 15). The problem of having a great summer of horror – with “Bring Her Back“, “Weapons” and “Together” – is that it brings ‘traditional’ horror films like “The Conjuring: Last Rites” into horribly … Read more

The Railway Children Return (PG): Even with the Trains, it ends up pedestrian.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Railway Children Return” (2022). “The Railway Children Return” (note: interestingly, a movie with no opening title) is a sequel, 52 years later, to the much-loved 1970 classic “The Railway Children”. (That doesn’t quite match the sequel gap of “Mary Poppins” and “Mary Poppins Returns“… but it comes pretty … Read more