Moana ¦ Film Review (3.5*): Joyous. Professional. Still Pointless.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Moana”. (2026, 3.5*, PG). Regular followers of this blog will fully know where I will stand on “Moana” – the latest Disney animation given the Live Action do-over. They all seem pretty pointless and lazy to me. Often just shot-for-shot reproductions of the originals, but with slightly less animation. … Read more

The Smashing Machine (2*): And You Thought The Only Rock Actor Was In EEAAO*!!

*Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Smashing Machine” (2025, 2*, 15). I’m still desperately trying to stay in touch, during the LFF, with at least the major new release each week. As such, I went to see Dwayne Johnson’s foray into ‘proper’ acting with “The Smashing Machine”: a film … Read more

Novocaine (3*): High on “Eughh!”. Short on Laughs.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Novocaine”. Violent comedy thriller that left me without pain but a little cold. 3/5.

The Brutalist (4.5*): Anti-Semitism, Intolerance, Power and Rape. A Powerful Oscar-tipped Concoction.

One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of “The Brutalist”. An epic tail of architecture and discrimination that deserves its Oscar success. 4.5/5.

One Mann’s Movies: Films of the Year 2024

#onemannsmovies My personal choice of Top 20 Movies of 2023.