Freakier Friday (2*): A Brilliant Opportunity To Re-Vitalise Disney Family movies…. Missed.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of Freakier Friday. The Disney remake fails to capture the fun of the original and disappoints. 2/5.
Tony Curtis
Nickel Boys (5*): An Astonishing and Deeply Affecting Movie Masterpiece.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Nickel Boys”. As the poster screams “A New American Masterpiece” and I quite agree. Stunning. 5/5.
Some Like It Hot (12): “Ba-dee-dly-dee-dly-dee-dly-dum! Boop-boop-a-doop!”
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Some Like It Hot” (1959). On my Flickering Dreams podcast, we recently talked about our favorite movies by director Billy Wilder. Emma Sewell chose “Some Like It Hot,” which she had watched in a movie theater. I mentioned that it would be wonderful to watch it on the big … Read more
The Northman (15): Þessi víking sagdialsr þat upp til eleven.
(Or “This Viking saga dials it up to eleven” in Old Norse). A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Northman” (2022). Robert Eggers takes a Viking saga and cranks up the action and gore to breathtaking levels. Forget the niceties of Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis in 1958’s “The Vikings”. In fact, if “Viking” was … Read more