Captain Marvel (12): Women: Be the Best Version of Yourselves!.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of Captain Marvel (2019). 4/5.

Venom (15): A film that leaves you in two minds.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Venom” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: PG-13. After all the terrible reviews of this movie (“The Times” reviewer described it as “excreble” which is harsh indeed) I was steeling myself to reach for my 1* rating.  I was happy to find that it wasn’t quite … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)

Groot Expectations.  James Gunn is back writing and directing the sequel to his surprise 2014 summer hit. And it might be a fresh mix tape slammed into the Walkman, but it’s much of the same again. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. In terms of the story, it’s almost a remake of the worst … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Deadpool (2016)

How the hell do you review a film like Deadpool? It’s almost in a category of its own. Ryan Reynolds is no stranger to superhero pics: he played the disappointingly limp “Green Lantern” in 2011 and before that he played this character – Wade Wilson – in “Wolverine: Origins” with Hugh Jackman (who is the … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Ant Man (2015)

OK, so I will probably target the wrath of a legion of fanboys but as a PhD Physicist I will categorically state that much of the science in the Marvel universe is total nonsense. For example, it requires a certain suspension of belief that whole cities can be levitated. But it’s called “Science Fiction” for … Read more