A One Mann’s Movies review of “Michael”. (2026, 2*, 12A). So, how to rate this ‘film’ about Michael Jackson’s rise to fame? I’d call it a biopic, but I really don’t think I can bring myself to. For this is such a sanitised and sickly-sweet parody of a music biopic that it would be a … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Eternity” (2025, 4*, 15). Hollywood has had a few goes at depicting the “Undiscovered Country from which no traveller returns”. David Niven of course went there in the 1946 Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger classic “A Matter of Life and Death”. And a personal favourite of mine was the … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022). The damned Covid (third time!) has delayed my viewing of “Top Gun: Maverick”. But this was one that I just HAD to experience in the cinema. Bob the Movie Man Rating(s): Plot Summary: Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) remains a captain despite a long and … Read more
Shailene Woodley is one of my favourite young actresses. Ever since she did that dramatic ‘crying-underwater’ scene in “The Descendents” she’s been someone to watch. And, while it was another “Hunger Games” wannabe – “Divergent” was a good story, well acted and with good visual effects. Unfortunately the series has progressively gone downhill: “Insurgent” was … Read more
Lists, lists… nothing but bloody lists. It’s that time of the year again, and a chance to look back at the films that have thrilled, moved or excited me during the last year. And then some of the turkeys of the movie season. While some of these were released in 2014, they only reached my … Read more