Official Secrets (15): The best UK film you’ve never seen.
One Mann’s Movies DVD Review: Official Secrets (2019). A great real-life historical drama set in 2003 at the start of the Iraq war. Top Class. 4/5.
Ralph Fiennes
Dolittle (PG): A complete mess…. but kids will probably love it.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Doolittle (2020). Robert Downey Jnr misfires with a bizarre attempt at a Welsh accent, but this is one I predict the kids/grandkids will love. Adults: 2.5/5; Kids: 4/5.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Hail Caesar! (2016)
In the Coen Brothers latest “Hail Caesar!” we have exactly the same Hollywood-based mix of communist writers and Hedda Hopper-style gossip columnists as recently seem in “Trumbo”: but the films could hardly be more different. “Hail Caesar!” is the film within the film: the latest Victor Mature style ‘God and Sandals’ epic for Capitol Pictures, … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Spectre (2015)
Spectre is premium Bond. But it’s not quite the perfect film that the hype of the 5* reviews might suggest. We learn a few new things: some more of the back history of Bond; that switches in Bond cars don’t always work the way you expect; and that Ralph Fiennes really can’t run very elegantly! … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the latest from Wes Anderson, and what great fun it is. My review of Monuments Men pointed out that putting the likes of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bill Murray and Hugh Bonneville in the same film was no guarantee of a good film.  Following that logic, … Read more