The Shawshank Redemption (5*): A Stone-Cold Classic That Both Moves and Delights.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Shawshank Redemption”. The 1994 classic is as fresh as it ever was. 5/5.
Eric Roth
Here (3.5*): A Home 65 Million Years In The Making.
One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of “Here”. Innovative Zemekis film that is insanely clever but I found a bit shallow. 3.5/5.
Killers of the Flower Moon (15): Scorsese’s masterwork shows greed on an epic scale.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Killers of the Flower Moon” (2023) (from the London Film Festival). OK, so here comes one of the BIG Oscar hopefuls. “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a bladder-testing three and a half hours, but is magnificant: a widescreen $200 million epic that truly deserves to be seen on … Read more
Dune (12A): “He’s Not The Messiah – He’s a Very Naughty Boy!”
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Dune” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Certain works of fiction have been labelled with the tag of “unfilmable”, and Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel “Dune” is one of those. It’s full of exposition done as internal monologues – which screams “movie voiceover”. And regular readers will know my hatred … Read more