A One Mann’s Movies review of “Alpha” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4*, ’15’). ”Alpha” has now been released in UK cinemas, so I am republishing my LFF review. Seems to have been getting some mixed reviews, but I enjoyed it. ====== Julia (“Titane”) Ducournau could have coined the term “Marmite movie”. For … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Madame Web” (2024). The latest Marvel – well, it’s from the rather dodgy Sony Marvel strand that includes the likes of “Venom” and “Morbius” – comes “Madame Web”. Now, I know a lot of Marvel fans tend to dump on the female-led movies (“Captain Marvel“, “WW:1984” and “The Marvels” … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Napoleon” (2023). Hearing Ridley Scott talk about Napoleon, he obviously has a lot of genuine interest in the man. This was clearly a passion project for him. And he should be proud of it. For it certainly is an impressive historical epic: the most spectacular he’s done since “Gladiator”. … Read more