Brendan Conroy

Hokum (4*): This Clever Murder/Mystery Meets Witchy-Horror Drives To A Terrific Finale.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “Hokum”. (2026, 4*, 15). I see lots and lots of cookie-cutter haunted-house horror films, but not one has yet has started with a 16th-Century conquistador on a search for treasure in the desert of Abu Dhabi! Like, “WTF”!? But this is just the first hint of what’s to come … Read more

That They May Face the Rising Sun (15): Bucolic charm and a whole lot of Blarney.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “That They May Face the Rising Sun” (2023). (from the London Film Festival). This is the second of two London Film Festival films I saw that is released in cinemas today (the other being “Kidnapped“). As such, I am republishing this post. You may have to hunt to find … Read more