The Phoenician Scheme (4*): At Last… A Wes Anderson That Delivers Style AND Substance.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Phoenician Scheme”. Wes Anderson delivers artfully clever entertainment. 4/5.
Willem Dafoe
Saturday Night (3*): The Chaotic Birth Of An American Broadcasting Legend.
One Mann’s Movies FIlm Review of “Saturday Night”. Recreation of SNL’s launch that didn’t light my fire particularly. 3/5.
Nosferatu (4*): An Estate Agent’s Horror in Selling and (Blood) Letting.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Nosferatu” (2025, 4*, 15). My first 2025 released film – at least, my first actually first seen in 2025 – is Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” and what a cracking good start to the year. A real old-school gothic horror. One Mann’s Movies Rating: Plot: Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) has been plagued … Read more
Web-shooters at the ready: Revisiting the Spider-Man Movies
I first published this in May 2022. But all of the live-action Spider-Man films are being re-released over the next several weeks so this seems an opportune time to re-publish this post. I went to see Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” (2002) yesterday, and it is REALLY TERRIFIC to see this on a big-screen again with great … Read more
Kinds of Kindness (18): “You’ve Just Crossed Over Into… The Twilight Zone”.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Kinds of Kindness”. Yorgos Lanthimos delivers stylish bafflement in a black comedy Marmite-movie. 4/5.