Nolan Does Batman: A Return To The Dark Knight Films.

With his eagerly anticipated “The Odyssey” opening in US and UK cinemas on Friday, Everyman Cinemas have been running a Christopher Nolan retrospective season as a part of their excellent “Throwback” series (in which you get a free glass of wine/beer and a popcorn thrown in!). The other week I saw the immaculate “Interstellar“. Last … Read more

Retribution (12A): ‘Speed’ Revisited in a Tired Neeson Thriller.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Retribution”. A tired and formulaic Liam Neeson thriller. 2.5/5.

Oppenheimer (15): Fission + Fusion = Cinematic Brilliance.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Oppenheimer” (2023). The “Barbenheimer” tag for this week’s releases is slightly bonkers since you could hardly imagine two more different films than “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”! Both have been packing cinema screens this weekend (hooray!). “Barbie” was surprisingly good. But, having had disappointments from Nolan (“Dunkirk“, I’m specifically looking at … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: 47 Metres Down (2017)

Down Down, Deeper and Down. It’s summer again;  it’s a shark movie.  Lisa and Kate are two sisters on holiday in Mexico with one grieving a lost relationship and the other looking for fun.  Against their better judgement they go shark cage diving 5 metres below a vessel that looks like it should have been … Read more