Lurker ¦ Film Review (4.5*): Like Pillion But Without All The Gay Sex.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Lurker”. (2025, 4*, 15). One I missed when it came out in UK cinemas in December last year, I just got to catch up with “Lurker” on my recent British Airways holiday flight to Jamaica. And what a terrific little film it is! It marks the directorial debut for … Read more

Power Ballad ¦ Film Review (3*): Dammit, That Ear-Worm Has Been Permanently Installed!

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Power Ballad”. (2026, 3*, 15). This tale of creative differences in the music business isn’t going to set Rotten Tomatoes alight or indeed the box office (given by the three or us in the huge cinema auditorium who were watching it today). But the film has a solid first-reel … Read more

Tuner ¦ Film Review (4*): A Glittering Dustin Hoffman Is Icing On The Cake For This Stylish, Unusual Thriller

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Tuner”. (2026, 4*, 15). Massively trailed ahead of its release, I was afraid that this might go the same way as “Finding Emily” and be a bit of a disappointment after a tempting trailer. But thankfully that was not the case. This is a stylishly delivered thriller, albeit with … Read more

Afraid (15): There’s a kernal of a fun movie in here… but very well hidden.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “AfAId”. A poor attempt to do a “M3gan” that fails to make sense. 2/5.

Bottoms (15): The love-child of Booksmart, Polite Society and Anchorman!

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bottoms” (2023). I have to say that as a 62-year-old heterosexual man, I am perhaps NOT the target audience for “Bottoms”. But I can still enjoy a raunchy high-school romp as much as the next child-trapped-in-a-man’s-body. (After all, I saw “Porky’s” when it first came out in 1981, and … Read more