A One Mann’s Movies review of “Love At First Sight” (2023). Boy meets girl at an airport. Boy loses girl. Girl finds boy. Love ensues. It’s a pretty standard romantic formula. But “Love at First Sight”, streaming on Netflix, manages to deliver it in an enjoyable package. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: Hadley … Read more
One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of the Elton John biopic “Rocketman”.
The British love a plucky loser. “Eddie the Eagle” tells the astonishing but true story of everyman plasterer Eddie Edwards who qualified for, and then competed in, the Calgary Olympics in 1988 (probably most famous for those other plucky losers – the Jamaican bobsleigh team of Disney’s “Cool Runnings” fame). I have absolutely no idea how … Read more
I have to admit that all I knew about Leith, before looking it up on Google Maps, was that in the famous tongue-twister the police from there “dismissive up”. But it turns out that Leith is a port-based district of Edinburgh. And very picturesque it is too in Dexter Fletcher’s new musical “Sunshine on … Read more