Morgan Matthews

500 Miles ¦ Film Review (4*): Like Sirāt, It’s A Gut-Punch You Don’t See Coming.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “500 Miles”. (2026, 4*, 12A). A quiet little drama, “500 Miles” has a terrifically talented cast and an intriguing story that pulls off the trick that few films have managed in the past: a twist that you really don’t see coming. And like “Fight Club”, “The Crying Game”, “The … Read more

The Railway Children Return (PG): Even with the Trains, it ends up pedestrian.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Railway Children Return” (2022). “The Railway Children Return” (note: interestingly, a movie with no opening title) is a sequel, 52 years later, to the much-loved 1970 classic “The Railway Children”. (That doesn’t quite match the sequel gap of “Mary Poppins” and “Mary Poppins Returns“… but it comes pretty … Read more