Firebrand (15): Getting One Over Parr.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Firebrand” with Jude Law as Henry VIII and Alicia Vikander as Catherine Parr. Revoltingly engaging. 3.5/5
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The Outfit (15): Rylance excels as a quiet ‘cutter’ with a past.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Outfit” (2022). Another of my Australia-flight films, “The Outfit” is a gangland drama/thriller that completely passed me by when it came out in the UK in April. (I can only assume it had a very limited release.) But if so, that was a crime since it’s a small … Read more
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Death of Stalin (2017).
Death…. Torture…. Child Abuse…. LOL?? Armando Iannucci is most familiar to TV audiences on both sides of the pond for his cutting political satire of the likes of “Veep” and “The Thick of It”, with his only previous foray into directing movies being “In the Loop”: a spin-off of the latter series. Lovers of his … Read more