One Mann’s Movies

“Flickering Dreams” Ep. 37: Reviews of Napoleon, Saltburn, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Thanksgiving, May December, Muzzle, Rustin and Driving Madeleine.

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In Episode 37 of Flickering Dreams I’m joined by Andy Godfrey of Sorted Magazine and Konnect Radio, Emma Sewell of Emma @ The Movies on X (Twitter!) and Scott Forbes of The Forbes Film and TV Review. In this episode Bob, Scott and Andy review the following films: We also run through the UK/Ireland Top 10 and the … Read more

Napoleon (15): More power to Ridley’s Elba.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “Napoleon” (2023). Hearing Ridley Scott talk about Napoleon, he obviously has a lot of genuine interest in the man. This was clearly a passion project for him. And he should be proud of it. For it certainly is an impressive historical epic: the most spectacular he’s done since “Gladiator”. … Read more

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (15): Entertainment in the Arena; Boredom thereafter.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (2023). I must admit that after seeing the original Hunger Games film in 2012, and some of the knock off follow-ons like “Divergent” and “The Maze Runner”, I rather lost interest in this genre and never got to watch any … Read more

Thanksgiving (18): Carving up a slashing treat.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “Thanksgiving” (2023). There is virtually nothing novel about Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving”. We are firmly in teen-slasher territory, with a masked figure terrorising the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. But, that being said, there’s a certain exhuberant energy behind the mayhem that makes the whole thing far more entertaining than most … Read more

Driving Madeleine (15): A Tale in Pursuit of the Silver Dollar (But With Added Grit).

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “Driving Madeleine” (2023). Original title: Une belle course “Driving Madeleine” took me by surprise. When I started watching it, I thought “Oh, another gentle little movie that might bring in the ‘silver dollar’ audience”. Which is something I love seeing: the joy of going into a cinema screening in … Read more