A One Mann’s Movies review of “Pillion” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4*, 18). “Pillion” is the third of three very strong films being released this weekend in UK cinemas (the others being “Wake Up Dead Man” and “Blue Moon”. Here’s the republished review, first published on One Mann’s Movies on October 27th. … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” (2022). It says something for the yawn-worthiness, for me, of the Fantastic Beasts Potter prequels that this film has been out over two weeks before I could be arsed to see it. Would “The Secrets of Dumbledore” rise above the very low-bar set … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Lost City” (2022). After the bruhaha of the Oscars, back to more middle-of-the-road fare with “The Lost City”: a new comedy/action caper starring Sandra Bullock. It’s an almost exact rip-off of 1984’s “Romancing the Stone” with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. (It even has a knowing slogan at … Read more