Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (12): Tedium in a big green screen.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (2023). It says something about the current malaise of the Marvel films that, in prepping to go and see Quantumania, I really struggled to remember anything that happened in “Ant Man and the Wasp“. Even more telling was that when I considered watching it … Read more

The Lost City (12A): Congenial Bullock and Tatum romance another stone.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Lost City” (2022). After the bruhaha of the Oscars, back to more middle-of-the-road fare with “The Lost City”: a new comedy/action caper starring Sandra Bullock. It’s an almost exact rip-off of 1984’s “Romancing the Stone” with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. (It even has a knowing slogan at … Read more

Nobody (15): what Kevin McAllister did once all grown up.

Hutch holding a machine gun

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Nobody” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: The “Nobody” in question is Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) who lives a humdrum suburban life: a 9-to-5 managerial job at his in-laws manufacturing plant; distant wife (Connie Nielsen); two kids, Blake (Gage Munroe) and Abby (Paisley Cadorath); an elderly father … Read more

Joker (15): Decline and Fall (Part 2).

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Joker (2019). A modern classic, with a possible (some might deem probable) Oscar for Joachim Phoenix. 5/5.

Avengers: Endgame (12): The final curtain.

One Mann’s Movies review of Avengers: Endgame.