One Mann's Movies Film Review: Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017).

Vaughn and Golding cross the pond to deliver more of the same. You would probably need to be living under a rock not to know that “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” is the follow-up film to Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman’s highly successful 2015 offering “Kingsman: The Secret Service”: a raucous, violent and rude entry into … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

A stunning visual triumph. I was a sufficient nerd to buy a “Back to the Future” T-shirt to celebrate “future day” from “Back to the Future 2” two-years ago, and I will probably be a sufficient nerd to buy a “Blade Runner” T-shirt in two-years time to celebrate the setting-date for the original film. One … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: mother! (2017).

Welcome to the Crystal Maze. Darren Aronosfsky’s mother! is like no other film you’ll see this year: guaranteed. As a film lover, an Aronosfsky film is a bit like root canal at the dentist:  you know you really need to go ahead and do it, but you know you’re not going to be very comfortable in … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Flatliners (2017).

The undiscovered country… which they shouldn’t have returned to. The movies have depicted the hereafter in varied ways over the years.  From the bleached white warehouses of Powell and Pressburger’s “A Matter of Life and Death” in 1946 and Warren Beatty’s  “Heaven Can Wait” in 1978 to – for me – the peak of the … 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