World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours A packed Friday for British and US screens, The Odyssey’s initial splash in China and Hollywood’s summer crosses $4 billion. Morning all — following on from yesterday’s bit of festival-and-forecast admin, today’s the day several of those forecasts actually become box office fact, and there’s a proper bumper … Read more
World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours Edinburgh raises the curtain, China braces for Nolan, Bollywood’s Independence Day scrap heats up, a bittersweet Nollywood farewell and the Nordics show their hand for Haugesund. Morning all — after two days of chefs-in-warzones and billion-rupee Bollywood milestones, today’s rather more of a “festivals and forecasts” sort of … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Ice Cream Man”. (2026, 2.5*, 18). Once in a while, I go to see a film that I genuinely have no idea what to rate it as. “Ice Cream Man”, the latest schlock-horror from Eli Roth, is one such film. On the one hand, it is truly terrible: terrible … Read more
World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours More on the British Production Slate; China’s Box Office Battle; Saudi Arabia’s Rise; Nollywood’s Next Hit & Sad News for Lucy Davis. Morning all — and while yesterday I was rattling on about chefs in warzones and Palme d’Ors, today’s crop of news takes us somewhere rather different: … Read more
World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours Spider-Man helps a soaring UK box office, China plates up a chef in a warzone, Scandi cinema celebrates success and Dhurandhar 2 rewrites record books in India. Right then — grab a cuppa, because there’s rather a lot to get through today, and I don’t just mean the … Read more