A One Mann’s Movies review of “Downton Abbey: A New Era” (2022). The second big screen ‘adventure’ for the Crawley’s – “Downton Abbey: A New Era” – finally does what every British TV-to-movie adaptation resorts to in the end…. takes the bunch of well-known characters and sends them abroad! Bob the Movie Man Rating(s): Plot … Read more
(Well, actually that seems perfectly plausible!) A One Mann’s Movies review of “Deep Water” (2022). “Deep Water”, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, is currently on Netflix and seems to be trying to replicate the success of “Gone Girl“. Unfortunately, it fails to get near it. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: ‘Retired’ and … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” (2022). Sometimes, when I get a downer on the state of cinema, I think to myself “are there no new ideas for films any more”. And then I go to see a film like “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” and my enthusiasm … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” (2022). It says something for the yawn-worthiness, for me, of the Fantastic Beasts Potter prequels that this film has been out over two weeks before I could be arsed to see it. Would “The Secrets of Dumbledore” rise above the very low-bar set … Read more
(Or “This Viking saga dials it up to eleven” in Old Norse). A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Northman” (2022). Robert Eggers takes a Viking saga and cranks up the action and gore to breathtaking levels. Forget the niceties of Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis in 1958’s “The Vikings”. In fact, if “Viking” was … Read more