Avatar: Fire and Ash (3.5*): Impressive But Overblown 3-quel As The War Comes For Eywa.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” (2025, 3.5*, 12A). My feelings for “Avatar: Fire and Ash” are exactly the same as for the previous film, “Avatar: The Way of Water“. I really didn’t want to like it and I had a feeling of resignation as I sank into my cinema seat … Read more

Sense and Sensibility (4.5*): Ang Lee’s Period Piece is an Exquisite Joy.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Sense and Sensibility”. Ang Lee’s superb period adaptation of the Jane Austen novel is an utter delight. 4.5/5.

The Room Next Door (12A): Clunky Dialogue In The First Half Of This AlmodĂłvar 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 AlmodĂłvar clunky and contrived. 2.5/5.

Lee (15): A biopic of an amazing woman that really deserves to be a mini-series.

One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of “Lee”. Kate Winslet excels in this biopic of war photographer Lee Miller. 4/5.

Bottoms (15): The love-child of Booksmart, Polite Society and Anchorman!

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bottoms” (2023). I have to say that as a 62-year-old heterosexual man, I am perhaps NOT the target audience for “Bottoms”. But I can still enjoy a raunchy high-school romp as much as the next child-trapped-in-a-man’s-body. (After all, I saw “Porky’s” when it first came out in 1981, and … Read more