Dear Santa (1*): Just Who The Hell Was This Abomination Aimed At?

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Dear Santa” (2024, 1*, 12). I am always trying to enlarge my repertoire of ‘good’ Christmas film and this was on my BA flight back from the Antipodes. Sadly, this Jack Black offering from last year – Dear Santa – passed me by. I really didn’t miss much. For … Read more

Champions (12): Feelgood Farrelly that stays on the right side of good taste.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Champions” (2023). “Champions” is the first solo-directed effort of Bobby Farrelly and a remake of a 2021 film with Spanish/Saudi Arabian origins. Now, the Farrelly brothers – Peter and Bobby – famously directed “Dumb and Dumber” in 1994 and “There’s Something About Mary” in 1998, forever changing my view … Read more