Ocean With David Attenborough (4.5*): A Clear And Concise Message That Seems Irrefutable.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Oceans with David Attenborough”. A truly powerful and important call to action for the world. 4.5/5.
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Last Night in Soho (18): Edgar Wright’s Haunting Love Letter to the Swinging Sixties.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Last Night in Soho” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: A young 21st-century teen walks in her nightclothes down a darkened alley emerging into a bustling 60’s Soho street across from a theatre showing “Thunderball”. She enters the Cafe de Paris with a reflection mimicking her actions but showing … Read more
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Baby Driver (2017)
A summer film so cool that air-con is optional. Sorry for the lack of posts folks…. with a holiday in sunny Portugal, I’ve not been to the pics for weeks! There’s something inherently appealing about the concept of a getaway driver. A skillful ‘bad-boy’, but not normally bad enough to actually DO the nasty … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Fury (2014)
“Ideals are peaceful, History is violent” I can’t make my mind up about “Fury”. As an escapist war film, it delivers well in a clichéd sort of way. But is it a true reflection on what the latter stages of WW2 were actually like? I doubt it. This film certainly doesn’t paint American soldiers in … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Gravity (2013)
Excuse the pun, but this film is going to pull a lot of weight in the technical categories at the Oscars next year. It is a breathtaking piece of filmmaking, reportedly 8 years in the making and the brainchild of Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and his son … Read more