Se7en (5*): What’s In The Box? A Murder / Mystery Classic!

One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of “Se7en” (1995). A classic of the murder/mystery genre with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. 5/5.

“Flickering Dreams” Ep. 37: Reviews of Napoleon, Saltburn, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Thanksgiving, May December, Muzzle, Rustin and Driving Madeleine.

In Episode 37 of Flickering Dreams I’m joined by Andy Godfrey of Sorted Magazine and Konnect Radio, Emma Sewell of Emma @ The Movies on X (Twitter!) and Scott Forbes of The Forbes Film and TV Review. In this episode Bob, Scott and Andy review the following films: We also run through the UK/Ireland Top 10 and the … Read more

The Killer (15): “Forbid empathy. Empathy is weakness. Weakness is vulnerability”.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Killer” (2023). David Fincher is a film-maker who delivers new material relatively rarely. (His last feature was “Mank” in 2020 and then “Gone Girl” before that in 2014.) So a new Fincher movie is something to make you sit up and take note. Due to a stupid scheduling … Read more

Mank (12A): divines for Oscar Gold in a sea of Pyrites.

Orson Welles (Tom Burke) in black jacket and wide brimmed hat

A One Mann’s Movies review of Mank – a delicious slice of vintage 40’s Hollywood recreated around the writing of Citizen Kane. It’s a cerebral triumph from David Fincher and glorious to look at. Recommended. 4.5/5.

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