The Room Next Door (12A): Clunky Dialogue In The First Half Of This Almodóvar Left Me Cold .
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Room Next Door”. It’s well shot but I’m afraid I found this Almodóvar clunky and contrived. 2.5/5.
Julianne Moore
May December (’15’): Dredging Up the Facts about an Under-age Sex Scandal.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “May December” (2023) (from the London Film Festival). “May December” is the latest from Todd Haynes who directed, for example, “Carol” and “Dark Waters”. This was, again, a film I caught at the London Film Festival, several weeks ahead of its UK release date. (I’m republishing this since the … Read more
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017).
Vaughn and Golding cross the pond to deliver more of the same. You would probably need to be living under a rock not to know that “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” is the follow-up film to Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman’s highly successful 2015 offering “Kingsman: The Secret Service”: a raucous, violent and rude entry into … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Non-Stop (2014)
There is something rather compelling about action films set on aircraft. The claustrophobic confinement and obvious dangers of guns, de-compressions and – erm – gravity naturally add to the sense of peril. Examples of the genre are Air Force One, Passenger 57, United 93, Airport 77/79/etc. and (at the ridiculous end of the spectrum) Snakes … Read more