One Mann's Movies: Suicide Squad (2016)

The length of time it’s taken me to catch this one at the cinema belies my lukewarm interest in the material: I’m not a ‘fan boy’ for either Marvel or DC properties. As it turns out, writer/director David “Fury” Ayer’s Suicide Squad is just plain frustrating in cinematic terms. The story concerns the efforts of … Read more

One Mann’s Movies: The Worst of 2015

So how about the festive foul? Here I reviewed my ‘Best Of’ 2015.  But how about the turkeys? I guess I should caveat this by saying that although I have an ‘Unlimited’ cinema card, I am sufficiently time-strapped with ‘the day job’ that I don’t get to see every movie at the cinema.  As such, … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Focus

In “Focus” Will Smith plays Nicky, a con artist from a long lineage of con artists, who takes under his wing the beautiful and talented pickpocket Jess (Margot Robbie): a great example of the sort of apprentice system that the UK Government is looking to encourage! Margot learns the more advanced tricks of the trade … Read more