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! One Mann’s Movies Rating(s): Plot Summary: … 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. One Mann’s Movies Rating: Plot Summary: ‘Retired’ and wealthy … 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