From Roger Moore With Love (12A): A Documentary That’s Interesting But Not Challenging.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “From Roger Moore With Love”. A documentary about the late actor’s life and career. 3/5.
Christopher Walken
Dune: Part 2 (12): “He’s Not a Very Naughty Boy. He IS the Messiah!”
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Dune: Part 2” (2024). It’s early in the year to be this bold, but I’d say the 2025 Oscars for Sound, Visual Effects and Score all but wrapped up. And I wouldn’t bet against Denis Villeneuve getting Best Director and “Dune: Part 2” winning Best Picture. Because this is … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Eddie the Eagle (2016)
The British love a plucky loser. “Eddie the Eagle” tells the astonishing but true story of everyman plasterer Eddie Edwards who qualified for, and then competed in, the Calgary Olympics in 1988 (probably most famous for those other plucky losers – the Jamaican bobsleigh team of Disney’s “Cool Runnings” fame). I have absolutely no idea how … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jersey Boys (2014)
Biopics, especially musical biopics, often tell the blood sweat and tears story of singers/songwriters rising from deprived childhoods or troubled backgrounds (queue ‘X-factor’ style soulful music) before finding fortune and fame through their musical talent. Sometimes that high can be followed by the low of drink, drugs and early death. But it is a characteristic … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: A Late Quartet (2013)
Christopher Walken gives the standout performance in this melodramatic story of a famous musical quartet torn apart by illness, internal-power play and underlying passions. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir also give good performances as the other members of the quartet, with Imogen Poots good – but annoying – as two of the … Read more