A One Mann’s Movies review of “Jay Kelly” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3.5*, ’15’). I sat next to a lady from the industry at this screening who stated that “big movie stars” were a thing of the past. But I disagree. I think if George Clooney (or Julia Robert or Brad Pitt … Read more
A review of “Rudderless” (2014): a guest review on One Mann’s Movies by Manoj Mistry. Dr Bob: This is the first time I’ve welcomed a guest reviewer to include an article on this site, but Manoj expressed an interest in writing retrospective reviews for older films. (If anyone else out there would like to write … Read more
Horrific Beasts and How to Avoid Them. I seem to be in a bit of a minority in quite liking Ridley Scott’s last Alien outing – 2012’s “Prometheus”: a heady, if at times ponderous, theory to the origins of man. The first hour of that film is really good. But for me, what made the … Read more
Spoiler! Her husband gets shot. “Jackie” tells the story of the spiralling grief, loss and anger of Jackie Kennedy driven by the assassination of JFK in Dallas in November 1963. Hopping backwards and forwards in flashback, the film centres on the first interview given by Jackie (Natalie Portman, “Black Swan”) to a ‘Time’ journalist (Billy … Read more