Miss Congeniality (4*): Happy Miss Congeniality Day (With Your Light Jacket On)!

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Miss Congeniality”. (2000, 4*, 12A). It’s the 25th April which is of course Miss Congeniality day! And if you need that explaining, you need to watch this movie, particularly if you’ve never seen it before…. for it is a comedy delight showing off the very best of Sandra Bullock’s … Read more

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (12): “Bustin’ makes you feel”…. meh.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” (2024). I went into “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” with low expectations and they were pretty universally met. It bends over backwards to tick the ‘Ghostbusters’ boxes. So much so that it sticks its head up its own spectral deformity. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: When … Read more

Champions (12): Feelgood Farrelly that stays on the right side of good taste.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Champions” (2023). “Champions” is the first solo-directed effort of Bobby Farrelly and a remake of a 2021 film with Spanish/Saudi Arabian origins. Now, the Farrelly brothers – Peter and Bobby – famously directed “Dumb and Dumber” in 1994 and “There’s Something About Mary” in 1998, forever changing my view … Read more

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (15): Nostalgia alone doesn’t make a great film.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: On our return home from seeing this Ghostbusters sequel, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”, the illustrious Mrs Movie Man and I realised that none of our grown-up kids was alive when the original Ivan Reitman film – starring Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis, … Read more