A Complete Unknown (4*): Tracking Mud On The Carpets Of The 60’s Folk Scene.
One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of “A Complete Unknown”. Excellent recreation of Bob Dylan’s rise to fame and its impact on folk music. 4/5.
Eddie Marsan
Firebrand (15): Getting One Over Parr.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Firebrand” with Jude Law as Henry VIII and Alicia Vikander as Catherine Parr. Revoltingly engaging. 3.5/5
Back to Black (15): Winehouse Biopic Illustrates Her Unique Talent & Tragic Decline.
A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Back to Black” (2024). You’d need to be a bit out of it, particularly if you are from the UK, not to realise that “Back to Black” is a biopic of the legendary but tragic singer Amy Winehouse who died in 2011. The film is directed by Sam … Read more
Out of Blue (15): Strangely Unsettling Murder Mystery from Carol Morley.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Out of Blue” (2018). My thanks to my #flickeringdreams colleague the Reverend Andy Godfrey for putting me onto this one. He saw “Out of Blue” at a BFI retrospective season of the work of director Carol Morley and likened it to the recent “To Catch a Killer” that I … Read more
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (15): Cookie-cutter Guy Ritchie Action flick.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” (2023). Guy Ritchie. Jason Statham. You KNOW what you are going to get with “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre”! And if this strikes positively to you, then you will probably be pleased with what you get. As a film though, I only saw this … Read more