Jojo Rabbit (12): Don’t be stupid, be a smarty.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of Jojo Rabbit (2020). A well-crafted lampooning through satire of anti-semitism, but one which, for me, weakened its argument with too much slapstick. FFFF

Vice (15): Puppet on a Cheney.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Vice” (2019). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. By an strange coincidence, the morning after seeing this film, I heard on BBC Radio 4 a snippet of the farewell speech of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961. I thought there was no sound-bite summed up the film … Read more

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (15): “Anger Begets Greater Anger”.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: What is “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”?  A black-comedy drama. But my fear would be that with such an ‘art-house’ title, it’s going to put a lot of people off…  (“I saw ‘Paint Drying in Jackson, Mississippi‘, and that … Read more