Death of a Unicorn (2.5*): A24’s One-Trick Pony* (*Not A Pony).
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Death of a Unicorn”. A24 Fantasy/Comedy/Horror that didn’t meet my high expectations. 2.5/5.
Will Poulter
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (12): You’ll believe you can cry over a CGI Raccoon.
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
One Mann's Movies Film Review: Detroit (2017).
The Detroit Sinners. Katheryn Bigelow’s new film should make you angry. It made me angry. As this year’s Selma (on steroids) the film is an ode to how incidents can get out of hand: at a macro level we see how a stubbornly chained-up door triggers a series of riots 50 years ago that reduced … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Revenant (2016)
I went to see “The Revenant” on the day that it was nominated for 12 Oscars, which certainly sets the expectation that it is going to be good – and it is. But I saw it described by DiCaprio as an “epic arthouse western” and that’s a good description. In the same way that Iñárritu’s … Read more