Dermot Mulrooney

Anyone But You (15): It’s Shakespeare, but not as you know it.

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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney wearing next to nothing on a cliff in the Blue Mountains.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Anyone But You” (2023). Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” has been filmed many times for TV and (most notably) for the cinema in Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 movie. It also got a more modern treatment in “Messina High” in 2015. Here in “Anyone But You” we go full Rom-Com for … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Sleepless (2017)

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A potentially good ‘B’ movie undone. Ecclesiastes 1:9 came up with the oft used quote that “there is nothing new under the sun”. “Sleepless” proves that in spades. Bent copper drama?  Check. Dodgy casino owner? Check. Nasty “Black Rain” style hoodlum?  Check. Kidnapped teen (“I WILL find you”)?   Check. Misunderstood family man?  Check. All of … Read more