Small Things Like These (12): A Christmas Film With A Real Heart.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Small Things Like These”. A struggle of concience for Cillian Murphy’s 1980’s coal merchant. Superb. 4/5.

The Holdovers (15): “World is decay; Life is Perception”.

Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham standing in front of a blackboard in Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers"

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Holdovers” (2024). Rather irritatingly for a ‘Christmas classic’ we have only just got “The Holdovers” released in the UK. (It seems to be on limited release this week, with more screenings promised from next Friday). But it was worth waiting for. And I can see now why … Read more

One Mann’s Movies: Films of the Year 2023

#onemannsmovies My personal choice of Top 20 Movies of 2023.

28 Days Later (18): You forget how good Boyle and Garland’s apocalyptic tale really is.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “28 Days Later” (2002). On our “Flickering Dreams” podcast we do a regular feature where myself and my fellow reviewers pick our favourite films from a particular director’s back catalogue (if you want to check out the past editions, eight so far, they are in a Youtube playlist here). … Read more

“Flickering Dreams” Ep. 23: Reviews of Barbie, Oppenheimer, The Deepest Breath, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock and The Tunnel to Summer: The Exit of Goodbyes. We also pick our favourites films of Kathryn Bigalow.

In Episode 23 of Flickering Dreams I’m joined by Andy Godfrey of Sorted Magazine and Konnect Radio, Scott Forbes of The Forbes Film and TV Review and Emma Sewell of Emma@TheMovies on Twitter. In this episode Bob, Scott, Emma and Andy review the following films: And in the next part of our regular feature, the … Read more