Who’ll Be Nominated for the Oscars on January 22nd? In my previous post on the Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award winners I indicated that the Flickering Dreams team – comprising myself, the Reverend Andy Godfrey, Scott Forbes and Emma Sewell – would be getting together to predict the nominations for the top categories at … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Society of the Snow” (2024). J.A. Bayona has delivered some cracking films over the years. 2012’s “The Impossible” was the definitive movie of the 2004 Tsunami disaster and 2016’s “A Monster Calls”, another very personal disaster movie in a way, was a masterpiece that made my No. 2 … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bottoms” (2023). I have to say that as a 62-year-old heterosexual man, I am perhaps NOT the target audience for “Bottoms”. But I can still enjoy a raunchy high-school romp as much as the next child-trapped-in-a-man’s-body. (After all, I saw “Porky’s” when it first came out in 1981, and … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fast X” (2023). I’ve not been a long-term fan of the Fast and the Furious series, and still haven’t watched the majority of them. But, by now, regular readers will know that I tend to take a dim view of movies that stretch the bounds of credibility beyond breaking … Read more