Next Goal Wins (12): For Once, Waititi Doesn’t Go Over the Top With His Comedy.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Next Goal Wins” (2023). I’ve had something of a love/hate relationship with Taika Waititi’s output. When he is good, he is very good. But I’ve often found – both in his acting roles and in his directorial features (“Thor: Love and Thunder” being particularly heinous) – that he has … Read more

The French Dispatch (15): So many 5* moments, but the pudding is over-egged.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The French Dispatch” (2021). (Full title “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun“). As another viewing on my recent trans-Atlantic plane ride, I caught up with Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”: a movie I managed to miss due to one of my (many!) Covid infections. All of … Read more

The Invisible Man (18): Have you seen it?

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Invisible Man”: a tense albeit wildly implausible tale, but highly entertaining. 4/5.

Us (15): A film with dodgy voices.

One Mann’s Movies Fil Review of Jordan Peele’s “Us”.