A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Sound of 007 – Live From the Royal Albert Hall” (2022). “The Sound of 007 – Live From the Royal Albert Hall”, available on Amazon Prime Video, is a live concert from the famous London venue featuring a selection of music from the Bond series. It’s a bit … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Sound of 007” (2022). “The Sound of 007”, available on Amazon Prime Video, is a documentary exploring the musical history of Bond, James Bond. It has some glorious nuggets and (even to this Bond officianado) had a few snippets of information I hadn’t heard before. But, sadly, it … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Army of Thieves” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: I have Covid-19, and am confined to quarters. So time to catch up on some streaming films. New on Netflix is “Army of Thieves”, a quirky prequel, of sorts, to Zac Snyder’s “Army of the Dead“. Plot Summary: Sebastian Schlencht-Wöhnert … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Dune” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Certain works of fiction have been labelled with the tag of “unfilmable”, and Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel “Dune” is one of those. It’s full of exposition done as internal monologues – which screams “movie voiceover”. And regular readers will know my hatred … Read more
They used to say about the early cars of Henry Ford that “you can have any colour you like, as long as it’s black”. As a cinephile, this phrase comes to mind as I scan the listings for my local cinemas for October movies: “You can have any film you like, as long as it’s … Read more