One Mann's Movies Film Review: Nocturnal Animals (2016)

Putting the crisis into mid-life crisis.   “Do you think your life has turned into something you never intended?” So asks Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) to her young assistant, who obviously looks baffled. “Of course, not – you’re still young”. Susan is in a mid-life crisis. While successful within the opulent Los Angeles art scene her … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

A gently comedic story of love and deceit. Perpetuating little white lies is part of everyday life and keeps society ticking over. But to what point is it acceptable to massage an ego with a dirty black lie. A real whopper. And is such a  lie perpetuated by love?  Greed?  Or the pursuit of personal glory? … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Suffragette (2015)

Whilst most men would agree that giving women the vote was a dreadful mistake (put that stone down ladies…. it’s just a joke), the astonishing story behind the UK social upheaval that was the Suffragette movement is well overdue a serious cinematic treatment.  And a serious treatment Sarah Gavron’s new film most certainly is: you … Read more