One Mann’s Movies: Films of the Year 2024

#onemannsmovies My personal choice of Top 20 Movies of 2023.

Society of the Snow (15): “This is a place where living is impossible”.

A sad Roberto Canessa (MatĂ­as Recalt) sat in the snow surveying a mountainous vista in front of him in J.A. Bayona's Society of the Snow

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Society of the Snow” (2024). J.A. Bayona has delivered some cracking films over the years. 2012’s “The Impossible” was the definitive movie of the 2004 Tsunami disaster and 2016’s “A Monster Calls”, another very personal disaster movie in a way, was a masterpiece that made my No. 2 … Read more

Jurassic World: Dominion (12A): Dinosnores.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Jurassic World: Dominion” (2022). Unlike a lot of people, I quite enjoyed “Jurassic Worlld: Fallen Kingdom“. Yes, it was contrived and lacked the high-octane thrills of the original JP movies. But at least it had a coherent story and J.A. Bayona used some neat visual devices to add some … Read more

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12): Greedy men + Dinosaurs = Lunch!

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 12; US: PG-13. I’ve really had a rollercoaster of emotions on this one. As a general fan of dinosaurs running riot, since I saw the brilliant original in 1993, I was pretty disillusioned by the teaser trailer for … Read more

One Mann’s Movies – The Best Films of 2017.

Bob Mann (the movie man) runs through his top 10 films of 2017.