A One Mann’s Movies review of “Out of Blue” (2018). My thanks to my #flickeringdreams colleague the Reverend Andy Godfrey for putting me onto this one. He saw “Out of Blue” at a BFI retrospective season of the work of director Carol Morley and likened it to the recent “To Catch a Killer” that I … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Perfect Nanny” (2019). Original French Title: Chanson Douce. Alternative Title (UK only?): Lullaby. There have been numerous films about parents hiring Nanny’s who don’t quite come up to OFSTED’s child-protection safeguarding standards. The most famous is probably “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle” from 1992 starring Rebecca de Mornay. … Read more
In Episode 17 of Flickering Dreams I’m joined by Andy Godfrey of Sorted Magazine and Konnect Radio, and Scott Forbes of the Forbes Film & TV Reviews (https://www.facebook.com/theforbesfilmreview). In this episode Bob, Scott, Emma and Andy review the following films: Also, the team drill into their favourite films from this week’s featured director, who is … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “To Catch a Killer” (2023). “To Catch a Thriller” feels like a title that has been much used before. And indeed there are a string of TV movies, series and documentaries with this, or a similar title. The original title was “Misanthrope” which is a much more novel and … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Hypnotic” (2023). Ben Affleck mystery thrillers seem to be a Russian Roulette of cinema. For every “Gone Girl” there is a “Deep Water“. “Hypnotic” is mildly engaging, but still feels like a B-movie. I thought Affleck was wandering through it on auto-pilot for most of the running time and … Read more