Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (4*): Benoit Blanc and the Demon Lamp-Topper.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4*, 12A). Today sees the UK release of the next Benoit Blanc mystery/thriller film “Wake Up Dead Man”, directed by Rian Johnson. I saw this at the LFF in early October but am republishing … Read more

28 Weeks Later (4*): How A Kiss of Death Provokes Disaster.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “28 Weeks Later” (2007). A recap for me on the zombie classic before the brainless return this week. 4/5.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (4*): High Class Nonsense That’s A Fitting Conclusion.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”.Long but entertaining final outing for Ethan Hunt and his team. 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

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 (12): Choose to Accept… the Impossible!

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” (2023). My chance to have another rant about the jokers who put the “Mission: Impossible” trailers together. As it was, I had managed to avoid watching the whole trailer for the last 18 months. Now I have, and the images they chose … Read more