A One Mann’s Movies review of “Train Dreams”. (2026, 3.5*, 12A). Ultimately, there is normally one of the ten Oscar Nominated Best Pictures that I don’t particularly click with and this year it looks like being “Train Dreams”. (Perhaps I’m also a bit grumpy that its inclusion bumped out the chance for “The Ballad of … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “100 Nights of Hero” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2026, 3.5*, 12A). This is another film, out on general release in the UK from today, that I saw as one of my final films of the London Film Festival on October 27th 2025. Republishing now. ==== If you’re … Read more
One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of “The Brutalist”. An epic tail of architecture and discrimination that deserves its Oscar success. 4.5/5.
I first published this in May 2022. But all of the live-action Spider-Man films are being re-released over the next several weeks so this seems an opportune time to re-publish this post. I went to see Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” (2002) yesterday, and it is REALLY TERRIFIC to see this on a big-screen again with great … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Dead Shot” (2023). “The Troubles” have spawned a lot of films over the years from “The Crying Game” through “Patriot Games”, “Hunger” and “’71” to last year’s “Belfast“. And here’s another, moderately low-budget, effort to join that list – “Dead Shot”. Aside from the terribly vague and contrived (it’s … Read more