Giovanni Ribisi

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Selma (2015)

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Last year’s “Pride” brilliantly demonstrated how far gay rights have come in the UK in 30 years.  Selma does an equally superb job in showing how far racial equality has come in the US in 50 years.   The year is 1964 and racial tension is rife in the Southern states, with attacks and murders … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

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Comedy westerns have a strong legacy through classics like Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles”, “Support your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter” (with James Garner), “Paleface” and “Son of Paleface” (with  Bob Hope and Jane Russell) all the way back to the brilliant “Destry Rides Again” (with James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich).   Unfortunately for each of these classics there’s the … Read more