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
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Bride!”. (2026, 2.5*, 15). “The Bride” has moments of brilliance that impressed me greatly. But it is all rolled up into such a convoluted mess of other stuff. The film really can’t seem to quite decide which genre it is in. Some of the scenes made me laugh, … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”. (2025, 4*, 15). One of the BBC’s ‘Storyville’ strands of international documentaries, “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” is the winner of the BAFTA for Best Documentary and one of the nominated Oscar Documentaries for this year. It’s a fascinating study into the workings of propaganda in … 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