One Mann's Movies Film Review: Denial (2017)

Jewry Trial. It’s the mid-90’s and Deborah Lipstadt (Rachael Weisz, “The Lobster“), an American professor of Holocaust studies at a US university has written a book naming and shaming David Irving (Timothy Spall, “Mr Turner”) as a Nazi-apologist who denies that the Holocaust ever happened. Filing a law suit against Penguin Books and Lipstadt in … Read more

One Mann's Movies: The Light Between Oceans (2016)

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day”. In my review of “The Two Faces of January” I described it as a film that “will be particularly enjoyed by older viewers who remember when story and location were put far ahead of CGI-based special effects”. In … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Jason Bourne (2016)

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

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Lobster (2015)

I can only hope that the creators of “The Lobster” – Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos and his co-writer Efthymis Filippou – find treatment at a good drug-rehabilitation clinic. A black and disturbing comedy, it can only be the creation of medically warped minds. David (Colin Farrell) checks into a remote Irish hotel with his brother … Read more