A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Beekeeper” (2024). In terms of ‘leave your brain at the door’ cinema, “The Beekeeper” is high up there on the list. Sometimes this type of film can leave you weeping into your popcorn. Amazingly, this one felt like a fun ride. (But, I mean, it’s still not … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bullet Train” (2022). “Bullet Train” is a popcorn-munching summer action-comedy that is very loud, very violent and completely nonsensical. If this bullet train film sounds like your kind of movie… then it probably is! The “snakes” in my title by the way are both physical, in the form of … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Lost City” (2022). After the bruhaha of the Oscars, back to more middle-of-the-road fare with “The Lost City”: a new comedy/action caper starring Sandra Bullock. It’s an almost exact rip-off of 1984’s “Romancing the Stone” with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. (It even has a knowing slogan at … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Dog” (2022). There are some movies where my expectation is so low that I think, on leaving the house, “do I REALLY want to spend 30 minutes in the car driving to #Cineworld to watch this one?”. Often my expectations are completely met and my answer to that question … Read more
Vaughn and Golding cross the pond to deliver more of the same. You would probably need to be living under a rock not to know that “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” is the follow-up film to Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman’s highly successful 2015 offering “Kingsman: The Secret Service”: a raucous, violent and rude entry into … Read more