A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Deepest Breath” (2023). “The Deepest Breath” on Netflix is a hell-of-a-good documentary about the dangerous sport of free-diving. The goal is to take a single breath, and then dive down into the ocean – following a weighted rope – and try to get as deep as possible. You … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Talk to Me” (2023). I saw “Talk To Me” as a Cineworld Secret Cinema preview earlier in the week and it was preceded by an exhuberent and very loud “THANK YOU FOR COMING TO SEE OUR FILM!!!!” intro by the two youthful directors, Danny and Michael Philippou. (“Oh God, … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Oppenheimer” (2023). The “Barbenheimer” tag for this week’s releases is slightly bonkers since you could hardly imagine two more different films than “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”! Both have been packing cinema screens this weekend (hooray!). “Barbie” was surprisingly good. But, having had disappointments from Nolan (“Dunkirk“, I’m specifically looking at … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Barbie” (2023). Wow, what an obvious shot-in-the-arm the much advertised “Barbenheimer” weekend is going to be for UK cinemas. As one of the cleaners was saying to his colleague when I was coming out of my screening, “I’ve never seen it so busy”. Wonderful! I’ve yet to see “Oppenheimer”. … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Infernal Machine” (2022). The last of my British-Airways-presented catch-up films from my recent trip, “The Infernal Machine” was one that I saw the trailer for, and liked, at Cineworld but which never seemed to arrive! And it’s a movie that I really liked – a complete mind-fuck of … Read more