Thunderbolts* (4.5*): What’s The Asterisk For And Who The Hell Is Bob**?
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Thunderbolts*”. The best Marvel film since Endgame. Genuinely entertaining, with Florence Pugh a standout. 4.5/5.
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Out of Blue (15): Strangely Unsettling Murder Mystery from Carol Morley.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Out of Blue” (2018). My thanks to my #flickeringdreams colleague the Reverend Andy Godfrey for putting me onto this one. He saw “Out of Blue” at a BFI retrospective season of the work of director Carol Morley and likened it to the recent “To Catch a Killer” that I … Read more
Creed III (12): “Walk Into What Is”.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Creed III” (2023). For reasons that escape me, but which were probably work related, I never got to see “Creed II” from 2018. But I was very much a fan of the original “Creed” from 2016, giving it 4*’s. Armed with having read the very good synopsis for “Creed … Read more
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (12): Tedium in a big green screen.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (2023). It says something about the current malaise of the Marvel films that, in prepping to go and see Quantumania, I really struggled to remember anything that happened in “Ant Man and the Wasp“. Even more telling was that when I considered watching it … Read more
The Harder They Fall (15): Gritty Tarantiono-esque western, with a twist.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Harder They Fall” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: I’ve referred to this as a Tarantino-esque western, but arguably this breed has its origins well before “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful 8“. As an old git, many of the slow-mo violent blood-spattering gun-battles in “The Harder They Fall” … Read more