Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger (2*) – Fighting the Financial Scum of the Earth.
One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of “Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger”: Repetitive and forced British sequel. 2/5.
Jo Hartley
Bank of Dave (12): A feel-good story of levelling-up and class warfare.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bank of Dave” (2023). “Bank of Dave”, new on Netflix, is a story VERY loosely based around the achievements of Burnley mini-bus-hire owner and businessman Dave Fishwick. In 2011, against all the odds, he set up the first new bank in the UK in 150 years, for the betterment … Read more
Sweetheart (15): Gregory’s Girl for the 21st Century.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Sweetheart” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: When I was in my late teen’s, Bill Forsyth’s “Gregory’s Girl” perfectly epitomised the angst of the school years’ emotions I’d left behind me. And I was very much heterosexual. With “Sweetheart”, Marley Morrison in an astonishing feature debut delivers a “Gregory’s … Read more
Slaughterhouse Rulez (15): Form-Prefect of the Dead.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Slaughterhouse Rulez” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. The Plot Meredith Houseman (Simon Pegg) is housemaster of Sparta house in Slaughterhouse school: an ancient public school establishment steering England’s future greats to greatness (which probably explains a lot about the current Brexit mess!). Houseman is … Read more
One Mann's Movies Film Review: David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)
A squirm-athon from beginning to end. “Life on the Road” is a mockumentary sequel to the classic British version of the TV comedy “The Office” (obviously later remade for the US market and featuring Steve Carell). Ricky Gervais played the ego-centric David Brent, a monster of a character who exercised what little control he had … Read more