Rachel Griffiths

Anyone But You (15): It’s Shakespeare, but not as you know it.

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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney wearing next to nothing on a cliff in the Blue Mountains.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Anyone But You” (2023). Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” has been filmed many times for TV and (most notably) for the cinema in Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 movie. It also got a more modern treatment in “Messina High” in 2015. Here in “Anyone But You” we go full Rom-Com for … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Hacksaw Ridge (2017)

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In God, and Doss, we Trust. Those dreaded words – “Based On A True Story” – emerge again from the blackness of the opening page. Actually, no. In a move that could be considered arrogant if it wasn’t so well researched, here we even lose the first two words.  When a war film is described … Read more