A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Lost Bus” (2025, 3*, 15). I could hear a chorus of the kids from The Simpsons singing “Hail to the bus driver, the bus driver man” during this film. For “The Lost Bus” is set in California in the city of Paradise that in 2018 was severely impacted … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “News of the World” (2021). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: Plot summary: Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks) is a war-damaged ex-confederate officer in post Civil War Texas. He makes money by travelling around towns reading out the news from state and national papers. This was pre-internet! On the way he … Read more
One Mann’s Movies review of “7500” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the pilot defending his flight against terrorists. A tense, well-made thriller. 3.5/5.
Bourne Free. I’ll say straight up that I’m a big fan of Bourne. This is his 4th proper outing as our forgetful hero, if you ignore 2012’s “The Bourne Legacy” with Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz: a ‘parallel time-stream’ drama that – rather against the stream of opinion I think – I also quite liked. … Read more
Zowie! Tom Hanks plays Captain Rich Phillips in what is definitely my favourite film of the year to date. The fact that this is a true story, and based on a book by Captain Phillips, rather gives the game away that ‘things will be alright in the end’, but – boy oh boy – … Read more