A One Mann’s Movies review of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981). I first went to see “Raiders of the Lost Ark” with my then fiancĂ©e Sue, now the Illustrious Mrs Movie Man, when we took an afternoon off our torrid job in a Highlands hotel in the summer of 1981. It was in a … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (2023). It’s the summer of 1981 and myself and the illustrious soon-to-be-Mrs Movie Man go into a little fleapit of a cinema in the middle of Inverness to watch “Raiders of the Lost Ark” – a film neither of us knew anything … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Argentina, 1985” (2022). So, with the Oscar nominations out, the mission has begun to try to fill in as many of the ‘gaps’ in my personal BAFTA and Oscar lists. And “Argentina, 1985”, nominated in both awards for “Best International Film” and a winner at the Golden Globes, is … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Old” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: “Old” is the latest from the gloriously inconsistent writer/director M. Night Shyamalan. Will this be great Shyamalan (Ă la “The Sixth Sense”) or dire Shyamalan (Ă la “The Last Airbender”)? The answer, in my view, is somewhere in the middle. It’s a … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Not perfect, but a stirring and dramatic end to the nine-film main saga. 4/5.