A One Mann’s Movies review of “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”. (2026, 4*, 15). My odyssey to try to watch all of the available Oscar films is perhaps not going to be completed this year (I should have started earlier!), but there have been two notable omissions in my completion of what I … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Bride!”. (2026, 2.5*, 15). “The Bride” has moments of brilliance that impressed me greatly. But it is all rolled up into such a convoluted mess of other stuff. The film really can’t seem to quite decide which genre it is in. Some of the scenes made me laugh, … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”. (2025, 4*, 15). One of the BBC’s ‘Storyville’ strands of international documentaries, “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” is the winner of the BAFTA for Best Documentary and one of the nominated Oscar Documentaries for this year. It’s a fascinating study into the workings of propaganda in … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die”. (2026, 3*, 15). “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” is an oddity of a film. It’s trying SOOOO hard to be this year’s “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” but really not getting there. It also plagiarises concepts from so many different films that … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mother’s Pride”. (2026, 4*, 15). There is a certain je ne sais quoi in a cinema audience after a really good film has finished. A sense of smug satisfaction that, just for once, as a paying cinema-going customer, have actually chosen well and picked a good ‘un. It happened … Read more