The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (12): A sparky first half but then rather a downer.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” (2022). Released in the UK on January 1st of this year, “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” was one that I missed at the cinema, but caught up on during my recent incarceration on my flight to Aus! But it has also just … Read more

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (15): Would the last straight woman in Stockholm turn off the lights?

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. You’ve gotta love a Scandi-thriller. Well, that was until last year’s hopeless Michael Fassbender vehicle “The Snowman” which devalued the currency better than Brexit has done to the pound! The mother of them all … Read more

First Man (12): He captured a feeling. Sky with no ceiling.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “First Man” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating Certification: UK: 12; US: PG-13. A memorable event I am a child of the 60’s, born in 1961.  The “Space Race” for me was not some historical concept but a pervasive backdrop to my childhood. I still recall, at the age of 8, … Read more