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 “Oppenheimer”! Both have been packing cinema screens this weekend (hooray!). “Barbie” was surprisingly good. But, having had disappointments from Nolan (“Dunkirk“, I’m specifically looking at … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Barbie” (2023). Wow, what an obvious shot-in-the-arm the much advertised “Barbenheimer” weekend is going to be for UK cinemas. As one of the cleaners was saying to his colleague when I was coming out of my screening, “I’ve never seen it so busy”. Wonderful! I’ve yet to see “Oppenheimer”. … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Infernal Machine” (2022). The last of my British-Airways-presented catch-up films from my recent trip, “The Infernal Machine” was one that I saw the trailer for, and liked, at Cineworld but which never seemed to arrive! And it’s a movie that I really liked – a complete mind-fuck of … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Significant Other” (2022). Another of the movies I saw on my recent trans-Atlantic trip with BA, this is available on the “Paramount+” streaming platform but also available to rent on others like Prime Video and Apple. It has its moments, with some nice cinematography and a very nice piece … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” (2023). My chance to have another rant about the jokers who put the “Mission: Impossible” trailers together. As it was, I had managed to avoid watching the whole trailer for the last 18 months. Now I have, and the images they chose … Read more