Whiplash

One Mann’s Movies – The Best of 2015

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Lists, lists… nothing but bloody lists.  It’s that time of the year again, and a chance to look back at the films that have thrilled, moved or excited me during the last year.  And then some of the turkeys of the movie season.  While some of these were released in 2014, they only reached my … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Whiplash (2015)

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Whiplash is simply astonishing.   Miles Teller plays Andrew, a gifted and highly ambitious drummer in his first year at an elite New York music academy.  There his talents are spotted by Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), an equally ambitious coach and mentor who is always looking for the “next big thing” but has never found it.  … Read more