A One Mann’s Movies review of “A Pale View of Hills” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 2.5*, 12A). Original title: TĂ´i yama-nami no hikari “A Pale View of Hills” gets it’s UK release today, so I am republishing my original LFF post from October 7th 2025. I’ve also updated the certification information, since … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”. (2026, 4*, 15). My odyssey to try to watch all of the available Oscar films is perhaps not going to be completed this year (I should have started earlier!), but there have been two notable omissions in my completion of what I … Read more
I have got to see all but one of the Best Animated Short Oscar nominees for the 2026 Oscars and once again there are some real crackers in the list. There are links to where you may be able to find them (subject to change of course) within each review. The nominees for Best Animated … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die”. (2026, 3*, 15). “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” is an oddity of a film. It’s trying SOOOO hard to be this year’s “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” but really not getting there. It also plagiarises concepts from so many different films that … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mother’s Pride”. (2026, 4*, 15). There is a certain je ne sais quoi in a cinema audience after a really good film has finished. A sense of smug satisfaction that, just for once, as a paying cinema-going customer, have actually chosen well and picked a good ‘un. It happened … Read more