You Hurt My Feelings (15): When her “whole little narcissistic world” falls apart.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “You Hurt My Feelings” (2023). I’d heard mixed views on “this one”You Hurt My Feelings”, now streaming on Prime Video. But I was very pleasantly surprised. “Does my bum look big in this?”. Seven words to put an icy chill through the blood of any partner. There is of … Read more

The Little Mermaid (PG): An emotional return to a Disney classic: Done. Just. Right.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Little Mermaid” (2023). My disdain for the Mouse company in repeatedly raping and pillaging their animated classics to produce often tawdry live-action remakes is well known. (I described “The Lion King” as “gorgeously pointless”). And the gestation of this one has not been without controversy with the casting … Read more

Thunder Force (12): Getting the crabs is never a laugh.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Thunder Force” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: The world has been irradiated and psychopaths have been transformed into super-villains – “miscreants” – wreaking havoc in the world. When the parents of Emily Stanton (Octavia Spencer) get killed by a miscreant, she makes it her life’s mission … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (15): McCarthy and Grant in a memorable double act.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” (2019). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. I have a big apology to make to Melissa McCarthy. A few months ago, at the excellent Picturehouse Harbour Lights film trivia quiz (every 2nd Tuesday of the month in Southampton… “be there and be… … Read more

The Happytime Murders (15): Why did some muppet green light this?

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Happytime Murders” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. Man, this is grim. The Happytime Murders is set in LA where puppets and humans live together but without much harmony, in a somewhat clumsy parody of racism. In this setting Phil Philips (voiced by Muppets … Read more