Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (12A): Chillin’ (no Netflix).

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” (2022). It says something for the yawn-worthiness, for me, of the Fantastic Beasts Potter prequels that this film has been out over two weeks before I could be arsed to see it. Would “The Secrets of Dumbledore” rise above the very low-bar set … Read more

Little Women (U): “God hasn’t Met My Will Yet”.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Little Women (2019). Greta Gerwig’s fantastically warm and old-fashioned movie that all the family and particularly older viewers will appreciate. Highly recommended. 4.5/5.

One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: The Circle (2017).

Social Media involvement in political manipulation?  Don’t be ridiculous!  Set in the near future “The Circle” tells a horror story of the social media age involving an omnipotent American corporate, pitched somewhere between being Facebook-like and Google-like (note, lawyers, I just said “like”!) Emma Watson (“Beauty and the Beast“) plays young intern Mae who, partly … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: It (2017)

IT… didn’t really float my boat. IT is based on the Stephen King novel, and tells the disturbing recurring events that happen within the town of Derry in Maine. Kids keep disappearing and sightings of a spooky clown, other visitations and red balloons occur. A group of bullied high school kids – one directly impacted … Read more

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