I Swear (4.5*): Crowd-pleasing Drama Shining The Light on a Debilitating Condition.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “I Swear” (2025, 4.5*, 15). The human brain is a remarkable thing: the most complex organ in the human body, it can process trillions of bytes of information faster than the best computers to help your body navigate a busy tube station or help you pick up a pin … Read more

Baghead (15): Nice Twist But Shame The Rest Is So Vanilla.

Iris (Freya Allan) looking terrified with a hand over her mouth in "Baghead"

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Baghead” (2024). So, the sausage train of so-so horror films continues. “Baghead” is a feature-length version of a well-regarded short film from 2017 directed by Alberto Corredor (this film’s director) and written by Lorcan Reilly. And it’s… “fine”. But, unfortunately, it is far too much like the plot … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Sunshine on Leith (2013)

  I have to admit that all I knew about Leith, before looking it up on Google Maps, was that in the famous tongue-twister the police from there “dismissive up”.   But it turns out that Leith is a port-based district of Edinburgh.   And very picturesque it is too in Dexter Fletcher’s new musical “Sunshine on … Read more