The Shawshank Redemption (5*): A Stone-Cold Classic That Both Moves and Delights.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Shawshank Redemption”. The 1994 classic is as fresh as it ever was. 5/5.
Roger Deakins
Empire of Light (15): A drama from the cinema days of AA, X and XXX.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Empire of Light” (2023). My first film of 2023, and it’s a corker from Sam Mendes – – “Empire of Light”. The movie gets its UK release on January 9th, but I saw this as a #cineworldunlimited preview screening. Bob the Movie Man Rating(s): Plot Summary: It’s 1980. Hilary … Read more
1917 (15): A far from relaxing evening at the movies.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of the epic war film by Sam Mendes – 1917. Visceral and a stressful watch but gets 5/5 from me.
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
A stunning visual triumph. I was a sufficient nerd to buy a “Back to the Future” T-shirt to celebrate “future day” from “Back to the Future 2” two-years ago, and I will probably be a sufficient nerd to buy a “Blade Runner” T-shirt in two-years time to celebrate the setting-date for the original film. One … Read more
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