A One Mann’s Movies review of “A Private Life” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4*, ’15’). Original title: Vie privée A lady of many talents, Jodie Foster attended the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, a French-language prep-school, and so is fluent in French. (She has in fact done the dubbing for the French … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Silence of the Lambs”. Jonathan Demme’s 1991 Oscar-winning classic still has the power to chill. 4.5/5.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Kinds of Kindness”. Yorgos Lanthimos delivers stylish bafflement in a black comedy Marmite-movie. 4/5.
A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Nyad” (2024). “Nyad”, currently on Netflix, tells the story of Diana Nyad’s multiple attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida – a minor distance of 110 miles (177 km) through shark and deadly jelly-fish filled waters. The film has been very well done, but it is anchored around … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Family Switch” (2023). Sigh…. While Disney’s “Freaky Friday” (with Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster) in 1976 was fresh and original, this is a genre that has really been done to death. “Family Switch” has some moments of good humour, but overall feels like a lazy retelling of the same … Read more