Corsage (15): Forty Years Old and the Sky is Darkening.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Corsage” (2022). The history of central Europe in the 19th century is utterly tortuous and I’ve never got to grips with it. In “Corsage” we get pitched into a fictionalised account of a year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Emporor Franz Josef 1 and … Read more

Old (15): Dafter than the Dharma initiative.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Old” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: “Old” is the latest from the gloriously inconsistent writer/director M. Night Shyamalan. Will this be great Shyamalan (Ă  la “The Sixth Sense”) or dire Shyamalan (Ă  la “The Last Airbender”)? The answer, in my view, is somewhere in the middle. It’s a … Read more

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (15): Would the last straight woman in Stockholm turn off the lights?

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. You’ve gotta love a Scandi-thriller. Well, that was until last year’s hopeless Michael Fassbender vehicle “The Snowman” which devalued the currency better than Brexit has done to the pound! The mother of them all … Read more

Phantom Thread (15): There’s an air of quiet death in this house”.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Black Panther” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: The alleged acting swan-song of Daniel Day-Lewis (“Lincoln“) sees him deliver a brilliantly intense portrayal of a maestro in his craft with all the quirks and egotistical faults that come with that position.  Reynolds Woodcock is the craftsman behind a … Read more