One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Love and Friendship (2016)

Beckinsale excels in a comic tale of Girl Power in the 1790’s. Set in 1790, Kate Beckinsale plays Lady Susan Vernon, an 18th century cuckoo-like ‘MILF’ (actually, more ‘LILF’, but using the ‘Lady’ term loosely) who with her glamourous demeanor is lusted after by both younger beaus as well as married aristocracy: an example being Lord … Read more

One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Central Intelligence (2016)

Great poster.  So-so film. “Saving the World Takes a Little Hart and a Big Johnson”. I doubt I have ever passed a film poster before and dissolved into paroxysms of mirth, so this film at least wins one award with me.  The story is pretty inconsequential, and used as a framework to build set pieces … Read more

One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Why Will Smith is a wise, wise man. I’m catching up on a few of the big films I missed during 2016. But Roland Emmerich has a lot to answer for with this one. Twenty years after Independence Day smashed the summer box office of 1996, the aliens are back: bigger and badder than ever. … Read more

One Mann's Movies: Sully (2016)

No, not “Monsters Inc 3”. Chesley Sullenberger was just a very experienced US Airways pilot starting an everyday job flying from LaGuardia airport in New York to Charlotte when fate stepped in. Following an extensive bird strike and the loss of both engines, ‘Sully’ achieved worldwide fame by landing his aircraft and all 151 passengers and … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Marvelous Cash Cows and How to Milk Them. As just about everyone in the whole muggle world (or nomaj world if you’re reading this in the States) knows, FBaWtFT is the first of a five film spin-off series from the Potter franchise, still under the careful stewardship of David Yates. (And if the other films in the … Read more