The Long Walk (3.5*): The Hunger Games Meets Speed And It Spells Bad News For Jojo Rabbit.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Long Walk” (2025, 3.5*, 15). “The Long Walk” was one of the first books published by the great Stephen King at the tender age of 19, so it is quite surprising that it has never seen a movie version. But now it has been brought to the screen … Read more

Book Review: Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops (4*).

Matthew Modine and Geena Davis in Cutthroat Island

One Mann’s Movies Book Review of Box Office Poison by Tim Robey. Over a hundred years of movie flops reviewed. 4/5.

Licorice Pizza (15): Like going downhill on an out-of-control toboggan.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Licorice Pizza” (2022). Occasionally a movie comes along that makes you think you have done a few rounds with Anthony Joshua. “Licorice Pizza” is one such movie. A riotous and helter-skelter script that never stays still long enough for you to work out whether you are actually enjoying the … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: A Late Quartet (2013)

Christopher Walken gives the standout performance in this melodramatic story of a famous musical quartet torn apart by illness, internal-power play and underlying passions.  Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir also give good performances as the other members of the quartet, with Imogen Poots good – but annoying – as two of the … Read more