A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Many Saints of Newark” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: With Bond showing on virtually every screen of my local Cineworld, there were few other choices for movies to go see this week. So even though I’ve never seen “The Sopranos” TV series, I decided to give this … Read more
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
The name James Bulger brings a chill to many older British people. For James was the little boy abducted from a shopping centre in 1993 by two older boys, murdered and left on a railway line. But the subject of “Black Mass” is real-life hoodlum James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp) who grew to be the … Read more
OK, so I will probably target the wrath of a legion of fanboys but as a PhD Physicist I will categorically state that much of the science in the Marvel universe is total nonsense. For example, it requires a certain suspension of belief that whole cities can be levitated. But it’s called “Science Fiction” for … Read more