Glen Powell

Anyone But You (15): It’s Shakespeare, but not as you know it.

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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney wearing next to nothing on a cliff in the Blue Mountains.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Anyone But You” (2023). Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” has been filmed many times for TV and (most notably) for the cinema in Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 movie. It also got a more modern treatment in “Messina High” in 2015. Here in “Anyone But You” we go full Rom-Com for … Read more

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (12): “Contented with little, wishing for more”.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 12; US: TV-14. Here’s a curious little British film that has some merit, both as an entertainment vehicle and as a history lesson.  Set in a split-timeline between 1941 and 1946, the film tells … Read more