One Mann's Movies Film Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Tail as old as Kline. With the Disney marketing machine in full swing, its hard to separate the hype from the movie reality in this latest live-action remake of one of their classic animated features from 1991. If you are lucky enough to have children you will know that each child tends to have “their” Disney feature: … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

Come the F*** on Bridget… who’s the Daddy? The world’s favourite lonely-hearts diarist is back. Bridget (RenĂ©e Zellweger) once again starts the film ‘all by herself’, haunted by occasional meetings with ex-flame Mark D’Arcy (Colin Firth) – now married to Camilla (Agni Scott) – and facing the natural discomfort of the early funeral of another … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Saving Mr Banks (2013)

Mary Poppins is a special film for me.  The first film I ever went to see at the cinema, perhaps even at the age of 3 when it first came out in 1964.  And after that first experience I couldn’t get enough of it:  I dragged my poor dear departed mother to that cinema so … Read more