The Bride! (2.5*): “Give Me A Break Frank!”

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Bride!”. (2026, 2.5*, 15). “The Bride” has moments of brilliance that impressed me greatly. But it is all rolled up into such a convoluted mess of other stuff. The film really can’t seem to quite decide which genre it is in. Some of the scenes made me laugh, … Read more

Relay (4*): A Long-Distance Relationship Via An Unusual Intermediary.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Relay” (2025, 4*, 15). Remember all of those delightfully straightforward ‘conspiracy’ thrillers in the 80’s and 90’s like “No Way Out” (1987); “The Pelican Brief” (1993); “Enemy of the State” (1998)? “Relay”, the new film from David (“Hell or High Water“) McKenzie, reminded me a lot of that simpler … Read more

Air (15): Will this be Best Film at the Oscars in 2024?

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Air” (2023). In writing my review for “Everything Everywhere All At Once” last May, I famously said that I was going to put an accumulator bet on the movie winning both “Best Editing” and “Best Original Screenplay”. But then I couldn’t find a bookie to take the bet so … Read more