One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Doolittle (2020). Robert Downey Jnr misfires with a bizarre attempt at a Welsh accent, but this is one I predict the kids/grandkids will love. Adults: 2.5/5; Kids: 4/5.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Slaughterhouse Rulez” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. The Plot Meredith Houseman (Simon Pegg) is housemaster of Sparta house in Slaughterhouse school: an ancient public school establishment steering England’s future greats to greatness (which probably explains a lot about the current Brexit mess!). Houseman is … Read more
Guilt trip. “Passengers” is not a film that you can really talk about in much depth without straying into spoiler territory, so I will break my normal tradition of my reviews being entirely “Spoiler Free” and add a further discussion (but below the Fad Rating, so you are safe ‘til there). The backdrop for “Passengers” is … Read more
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
X-rated for Sheep. Based on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel (which I much shamefully admit I have never read), Far From the Madding Crowd tells the tale of Bathsheba Everdene’s rags-to-riches rise to become a farm-owner in rural Dorset in the 1870’s, the title coming from the fact that Dorset is a long way from the … Read more