Haunted Mansion (12A): Stanfield is SUPERB. The film… not so much.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Haunted Mansion” (2023). You often get a feel for the target audience for a film from the adverts and trailers that get played before…
28 Days Later (18): You forget how good Boyle and Garland’s apocalyptic tale really is.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “28 Days Later” (2002). On our “Flickering Dreams” podcast we do a regular feature where myself and my fellow reviewers pick our favourite films…
Meg 2: The Trench (12A): ‘Jumping the Shark’, Chinese Style.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Meg 2: The Trench” (2023). Don’t get me wrong, I really don’t mind a ‘park your brain at the door’ action thriller. (I really…
Run Rabbit Run (15): Playing Hide-and-Seek with History.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Run Rabbit Run” (2023). Sarah Snook is a wonderful actress, and she seems to have burst out of the “Succession” gate running. This Australian…
The Beanie Bubble (15): Lots of Playthings, Partially Stuffed by Ty Warner.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Beanie Bubble” (2023). “The Beanie Bubble” on Apple+ is a very similar movie to the recent “Air“. It follows the fortunes of an…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (PG): How to Milk Turtles Without Nipples.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (2023). The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” have been trotted out to the cinema for each new generation of…
Some Like It Hot (12): “Ba-dee-dly-dee-dly-dee-dly-dum! Boop-boop-a-doop!”
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Some Like It Hot” (1959). On my Flickering Dreams podcast, we recently talked about our favorite movies by director Billy Wilder. Emma Sewell chose…
The Deepest Breath (12): See how long you last in that opening scene.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Deepest Breath” (2023). “The Deepest Breath” on Netflix is a hell-of-a-good documentary about the dangerous sport of free-diving. The goal is to take…
Talk To Me (15): A patchy start to this Australian horror that manages to deliver big in the close.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Talk to Me” (2023). I saw “Talk To Me” as a Cineworld Secret Cinema preview earlier in the week and it was preceded by…
Oppenheimer (15): Fission + Fusion = Cinematic Brilliance.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Oppenheimer” (2023). The “Barbenheimer” tag for this week’s releases is slightly bonkers since you could hardly imagine two more different films than “Barbie” and…
