A One Mann’s Movies review of “Old” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: “Old” is the latest from the gloriously inconsistent writer/director M. Night Shyamalan. Will this be great Shyamalan (à la “The Sixth Sense”) or dire Shyamalan (à la “The Last Airbender”)? The answer, in my view, is somewhere in the middle. It’s a … Read more
“Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing” could be a summary of this modern-age disaster movie. In 2010 the “Deepwater Horizon” drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana failed in spectacular fashion, bursting into flames and spewing millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in what was the worst oil-spill in … Read more
In recent years Roland Emmerich has been the king of destruction on a worldwide scale with films like “The Day After Tomorrow”, “2012” and “Independence Day” (now – bizarrely and to my view unwisely – with two sequels on the roadmap). This time though, with “San Andreas”, it is Brad Peyton who takes the helm … Read more