Neil Armstrong

Apollo 11 (U): 60 years of manned spaceflight… a “giant leap”?

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “Apollo 11” (2019). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: Certification: UK: U; US: G. My movie choices in the last couple of weeks have gravitated inexorably around the decade of my birth. Last time – like Sam Beckett – it was a leap back to the early 60’s music with “Yesterday“; here … Read more

First Man (12): He captured a feeling. Sky with no ceiling.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “First Man” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating Certification: UK: 12; US: PG-13. A memorable event I am a child of the 60’s, born in 1961.  The “Space Race” for me was not some historical concept but a pervasive backdrop to my childhood. I still recall, at the age of 8, … Read more