A One Mann’s Movies review of “Barbie” (2023). Wow, what an obvious shot-in-the-arm the much advertised “Barbenheimer” weekend is going to be for UK cinemas. As one of the cleaners was saying to his colleague when I was coming out of my screening, “I’ve never seen it so busy”. Wonderful! I’ve yet to see “Oppenheimer”. … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Chevalier” (2023). I missed “Chevalier” at the cinema, but my friends on our “Flickering Dreams” podcast raved about it. Perhaps it lost some of the spectacle, but even on my little seat-back BA economy screen, I could appreciate it was a class act. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bohemian Rhapsody” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 12; US: PG-13. Sometimes a trailer generates a bit of a buzz of excitement with a cinema audience and the first showings of the trailer for “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a case in point. But would the film live up to … Read more
You’ll never guess who dunnit… There’s a big problem with Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 filming of the Hercule Poirot-based murder mystery…. and that’s the 1974 Sidney Lumet classic featuring Albert Finney in the starring role. For that film was so memorable – at least, the “who” of the “whodunnit” (no spoilers here) was so memorable – … Read more
Gregory’s Commitments. Ah, the joy and pain of first love! Young Conor (aka Cosmo, played in his impressive debut by Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) has the smelly end of a shitty stick to deal with while growing up in 1980’s Dublin. He has warring parents with the need – for financial reasons – to move Conor from … Read more