The Lost King (12): A delightfully quirky retelling of Richard the Third’s resting place.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Lost King” (2022). “The Lost King” is based on the true story of one woman’s personal quest to discover the burial place of the disgraced and discredited British King, Richard III, who died on the battlefield of Bosworth field in 1485. Although based on real events, the movie’s … Read more

Smile (18): The horror of destroying some simply smashing wine tumblers.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Smile” (2022). I remember that one of the early horror films I saw with an “18” certificate (or actually “X” certificate in those days, just before it changed) was a rather unpleasantly ‘rapey’ film called “The Entity” in 1982. Barbara Hershey was a woman stalked by a malicious invisible … Read more

The Woman King (15): “We Are Dahomey”.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Woman King” (2022). “The Woman King” seems to be getting a whole lot of flack on IMDB for sanitising the history of slavery, since the film is based on real people in the West-African country of Dahomey (now part of Benin). Ignoring that furore and viewing it as … Read more