Mr Burton (3.5*): An Icon’s Very Fortunate Brush With A Dedicated Teacher.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Mr Burton”. A solid and entertaining biopic of Richard Burton’s early life. 3.5/5.
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The Oscars “Animated Short Film” Nominees, 2025.
One Mann’s Movies Review of the Animated Short Films from the 2025 Oscars, being announced on March 2nd.
Tetris (15): In Pursuit of the Soviet Blocks (sic)!
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Tetris”. Entertaining thriller based on an amazing true story. 4/5.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (12): “It’s the mileage”… and he’s got a lot on the clock.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (2023). It’s the summer of 1981 and myself and the illustrious soon-to-be-Mrs Movie Man go into a little fleapit of a cinema in the middle of Inverness to watch “Raiders of the Lost Ark” – a film neither of us knew anything … Read more
Out of Blue (15): Strangely Unsettling Murder Mystery from Carol Morley.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Out of Blue” (2018). My thanks to my #flickeringdreams colleague the Reverend Andy Godfrey for putting me onto this one. He saw “Out of Blue” at a BFI retrospective season of the work of director Carol Morley and likened it to the recent “To Catch a Killer” that I … Read more