A One Mann’s Movies review of “Scoop” (2024). It’s a moment in British television history and a journalistic ‘Scoop’ of epic proportions. On November 16th 2019 and, in a Newsnight special, BBC reporter Emily Maitlis engages with Prince Andrew head-to-head. It’s an interview that Andrew hoped would clear his name in regards to the Jeffrey … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “To Olivia” (2021). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: Plot summary: Roald Dahl (Hugh Bonneville) is struggling to be a recognized children’s author: his first book, James and Giant Peach, has bombed. But worse is to come as his beloved elder daughter Olivia dies of the measles at the age … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Review of Misbehaviour (2020) – a drama set around the 1970 Miss World contest, focusing on important sexual and racial equality issues but managing to sit on the fence for all of them. 2.5/5.