A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fwends” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 2*, ’15’). Oh dear. My least favourite film of the LFF press pre-week. I was sharing this screening with Mike Leigh, but I sadly didn’t get to speak to him afterwards to find out what he thought of this one. But … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “A Private Life” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4*, ’15’). Original title: Vie privée A lady of many talents, Jodie Foster attended the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, a French-language prep-school, and so is fluent in French. (She has in fact done the dubbing for the French … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Life After” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4.5*, ’12’). Great documentaries should be able to challenge your preconceptions about a topic. And “Life After”, made by the disabled film-maker Reid Davenport, does just that. I’ve already notice that, one paragraph in, I’ve already prefaced Davenport’s name and … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Romeria” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 2*, ’15’). I’m afraid my run of good films (imho) at the LFF had to come off the rails sometime and I’m afraid it did with “Romeria”. I’m afraid Carla Simón’s latest might have been technically well-made, but I found the … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Harvest”. A Medieval set drama death, pigs and pillory. 3.5/5.