Asteroid City (12): Explain all of this to me. I dare you.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Asteroid City”. The most Andersonny film imaginable. Gorgeous but disjointed and barmy. 3/5.
Tilda Swinton
GdT’s Pinnochio (PG): Stunning animation but annoying songs.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio” (2022). There have been not one, not two, but THREE versions of the classic tale “Pinnochio” released in the last three years with (just to add extra confusion) two in 2022. I have not mustered the courage yet to watch the Disney live-action version starring … Read more
Three Thousand Years of Longing (15): Another Djinn with a crick in the neck.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Three Thousand Years of Longing” (2022). It’s been 7 years since George Miller released the excellent “Mad Max: Fury Road“, but he’s sneaked “Three Thousand Years of Longing” out before his upcoming revisits to the “Mad Max” world. I was really looking forward to this curiosity – an adult … Read more
The French Dispatch (15): So many 5* moments, but the pudding is over-egged.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The French Dispatch” (2021). (Full title “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun“). As another viewing on my recent trans-Atlantic plane ride, I caught up with Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”: a movie I managed to miss due to one of my (many!) Covid infections. All of … Read more
The Personal History of David Copperfield (PG): A surprising departure by Iannucci.
A One Mann’s Movies review of The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: So, as a part of the latest lockdown, I’m trying to revisit some of the movies I missed at the cinema during 2020. And “The Personal History of David Copperfield” is a case in point, released in … Read more