Marriage Story (15): K vs K Lite.
One Mann’s Movies Review of “Marriage Story” – a “Kramer vs Kramer lite” in my book, albeit with some great acting performances. 3/5.
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The Mule (15): Eastwood is back, but is he hero or anti-hero?
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Mule” (2019). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. It’s delightful to see Clint Eastwood back in front of the camera on the big screen. His last starring film was “Trouble with the Curve” in 2012 – a baseball-themed film that I don’t remember coming out in … Read more
If Beale Street Could Talk (15): Love and Rage against the machine.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2019). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. The baby asked,‘Is there not one righteous among them?”― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk Beale Street refers to the jumpin’ heart of Memphis where Louis Armstrong was born. As explained in text from … Read more
One Mann’s Movies: Screen Actor’s Guild Awards (SAG) (Film Categories) Winners 2019.
Another award milestone in the run up to “the big one”. The Screen Actor’s Guild awards were held in LA last night. The SAG’s are given by the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists(SAG-AFTRA) to recognise outstanding performances in film and prime time television. The Golden Globes are a better judge normally as … Read more
Life Itself (15): Love Actually with all the saccharine squeezed out.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Life Itself” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. Not the documentary of the same name from 2014 about the critic Rogert Ebert. This is an Amazon Studios/Sky Cinema Original Film (trying to follow where Netflix is boldly going), and as such it only had a very limited … Read more