A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Saving Private Ryan” (1998). Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” was released in the UK on September 11th 1998. So, just to make me feel horribly old, it is now over 25 years old. But it still packs a punch on the big screen. When I first saw it, … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fast X” (2023). I’ve not been a long-term fan of the Fast and the Furious series, and still haven’t watched the majority of them. But, by now, regular readers will know that I tend to take a dim view of movies that stretch the bounds of credibility beyond breaking … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (2023). After the recent duds of “Thor: Love and Thunder” and “Ant Man: Quantumania“, Marvel need a stabilising hit for the summer season. Fortunately, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” seems to meet that brief, being a loud, brash, funny crowd-pleaser of a … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “F9: The Fast Saga” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: For F9’s-sake. “Fast and Furious 9” – – that’s NINE! Big sigh. You’d think by now, they would be getting vaguely good at this. And I guess they are in a lazy, formulaic, money-making sort of way. “Do you … Read more
Groot Expectations. James Gunn is back writing and directing the sequel to his surprise 2014 summer hit. And it might be a fresh mix tape slammed into the Walkman, but it’s much of the same again. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. In terms of the story, it’s almost a remake of the worst … Read more