A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Lost Bus” (2025, 3*, 15). I could hear a chorus of the kids from The Simpsons singing “Hail to the bus driver, the bus driver man” during this film. For “The Lost Bus” is set in California in the city of Paradise that in 2018 was severely impacted … Read more
After “12 Years a Slave” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” I’d thought I’d seen all of the serious best actor candidates for this year. That was before I’d seen Matthew McConaughey’s performance in “Dallas Buyers Club”. The performance is simply outstanding: less showy that DiCapprio’s in “Wolf”; certainly less worthy than Ejiofor’s in “Slave”; … Read more
The old student adage – “better a bottom in front of me than a frontal lobotomy’ – was never truer than in Martin Scorsese’s new film “The Wolf of Wall Street”. The film tells the bizarrely true story of Jordan Belfort (based off his autobiography): a rags to enormous riches story of the ugly … Read more