Lyvia’s House (’15’): Love, sex, voyeurism, murder, incest… just your regular Californian rural town.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Lyvia’s House”. A low-budget thriller with some merits but terribly intrusive music. 3/5.
James Horner
Alien: Romulus (15): The ‘Rogue One’ of the franchise meets the acid test.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Alien: Romulus”. The franchise back on good form but bends physics a tad too much for me. 4/5.
Web-shooters at the ready: Revisiting the Spider-Man Movies
I first published this in May 2022. But all of the live-action Spider-Man films are being re-released over the next several weeks so this seems an opportune time to re-publish this post. I went to see Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” (2002) yesterday, and it is REALLY TERRIFIC to see this on a big-screen again with great … Read more
Boldy Going Back to the Trekverse: The Star Trek Movies Revisited
So, lockdown viewing has led me to boldly return to the Star Trek movies to re-evaluate and rank them all. Set phasars to stun! Just to nail my Trek credentials to the mast. I was a child of the 60’s, so the original series was formative in my love of science fiction. The starship/planet effects … Read more
The Mercy (12): “With shroud, and mast, and pennon fair”.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Mercy” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: It’s 1968. Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle“; “Magic in the Moonlight“), is an amateur sailor and entrepreneur based in Teignmouth, Devon. He is inspired by listening to single-handed round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester and does a a crazy … Read more