Civil War (15): Chinook Porn and an Alarming Glimpse Into a Fractured US Future.

#OneMannsMovies #filmreview of "Civil War". #CivilWarMovie. Garland's gritty journalistic road trip results in a top-notch war movie. 4.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Civil War” (2024). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: In a near future America, we are pitched into a vicious civil war between the successionist states of Texas and California and the rest of the US run by a delusional President (Nick Offerman) who’s bullied his way into a third term. (Sound familiar?) Veteran photo-journalist Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and…

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Spaceman (15): Spaced-out Drama With An Eight-Legged Friend.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Spaceman" on #netflix. #Spaceman. Thoughtful Sci-Fi mystery drama with (a very good) Adam Sandler. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Spaceman” (2024). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: 6 months into a solo mission to the edge of the solar system, Polish cosmonaut Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler) is investigating a mysterious dust cloud nicknamed Chopra. Struggling with his mental health and the lack of communication with his wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan), he is apparently joined in his…

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Shirley (12): You'll NEVER guess what happens in this True Story of a Race for the Presidency!

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Shirley" on #Netflix. #ShirleyNetflix. A biopic of an amazing woman who made American political history. But it's a missed opportunity. 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Shirley” (2024). Although not American, I tend to really enjoy films centred around US politics, with 1998’s “Primary Colors” being a particular favourite. Here then is “Shirley” from Netflix: a movie based on an amazing woman of colour called Shirley Chisholm who single-handedly took the patriarchy of Congress apart and then in 1972 set her sights on the…

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The Shift (12): Good deeds and the devil in the Multiverse.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "The Shift". A multiverse movie with a religious twist from #AngelStudios. 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Shift” (2024). There are certain movies where I look at the production company and perk up and pay attention. A24 is one of those: they seldom seem to put out anything that isn’t at least “interesting”. Another increasingly on my rader is Angel Studios. They have a fascinating ‘crowd-funding’ approach to investment as well as an innovative “Pay it Forward”…

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Hanky Panky ('15'): "The whole thing was just weird. Every tiny detail."

#onemannsmovies of "Hanky Panky". #HankyPankyMovie. A schlock comedy/horror with Seth Green as an evil hat. You'll either love it or hate it! 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Hanky Panky” (2024). I sometimes get sent screeners for movies that – erm – will normally struggle to get a cinema release. Many of them are almost unwatchable pants (hmmm… killer pants… where is my scriptwriting pad?) But sometimes they become quirky, strangely watchable oddities. “Hanky Panky”, sent to me by Actor/Writer/Co-director Nick Roth and soon to be…

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My RIDICULOUSLY early Oscar Predictions for 2025!

#onemannsmovies RIDICULOUSLY early Oscar predictions for 2025. A post that you can look back on and laugh mercilessly about on March 3rd 2025!

Last year (see here) as part of our Flickering Dreams podcast show we had a fun game with our Oscar Predictions: trying to predict, almost a year ahead, which films would be nominated as the Ten “Best Films” at the Oscars. So, it’s that time again and my friend and colleague Scott Forbes has thrown down the gauntlet! So, here are my predictions for the 10 films which I think will make up the…

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Back to Black (15): Winehouse Biopic Illustrates Her Unique Talent & Tragic Decline.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Back to Black". #BackToBlackFilm. The Winehouse biopic is a good watch but fails to thrill. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Back to Black” (2024). You’d need to be a bit out of it, particularly if you are from the UK, not to realise that “Back to Black” is a biopic of the legendary but tragic singer Amy Winehouse who died in 2011. The film is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, who burst onto the movie scene with a wonderful film about another music legend (John Lennon in 2009’s…

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Scoop (15): A Journalistic Coup in a Right Royal Under-Age Sex Scandal.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Scoop". Royal involvement in under-age sex scandal brought under the TV microscope. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Scoop” (2024). It’s a moment in British television history and a journalistic ‘Scoop’ of epic proportions. On November 16th 2019 and, in a Newsnight special, BBC reporter Emily Maitlis engages with Prince Andrew head-to-head. It’s an interview that Andrew hoped would clear his name in regards to the Jeffrey Epstein under-age sex trafficking scandal. It did not go…

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (12A): Writers Throwing Monstrous Shit Against The Wall.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire". #GodzillaxKong. Dire nonsense of the crashy-bashy kind. 1.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” (2024). There are films that make me love cinema. And then again, there are films that make me despair for cinema. Guess which category “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” falls into? Even the title is nonsensical…. what is it supposed to even mean? Godzilla vs Kong? Godzilla multiplied by Kong? Godzilla meets a really cross Kong?…

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Fast Charlie (15): Pierce Brosnan and Morena Baccarin? #Punching!

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of Fast Charlie on #PrimeVideo. #FastCharlie. Run of the mill story but chemistry with Brosnan and Morena Baccain. 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fast Charlie” (2024). “Fast Charlie”, streaming on Prime Video, attracted me for two reasons*. Firstly, however dire some of his film choices have been, I do like watching Pierce Brosnan on the screen. Secondly, this one was directed by the veteren film director Phillip Noyce who led two of my favourite thrillers of all time: “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present…

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Mother's Instinct (15): A Thrilling Psychological Rollercoaster.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Mother's Instinct". #MothersInstinct. A twisty turny psychological thriller that Hitchcock would be proud of. 4/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mother’s Instinct” (2024). What a treat to see a psychological thriller where you can be genuinely surprised by the twists and turns. “Mother’s Instinct” delivers just that, bolstered by excellent performances by two of the finest actresses working today. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: It’s 1960 and Celine (Anne Hathaway) and Alice (Jessica Chastain)…

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (12): "Bustin' makes you feel".... meh.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. #Ghostbusters. Sequel that tries to hard to leverage GB lore. 2.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” (2024). I went into “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” with low expectations and they were pretty universally met. It bends over backwards to tick the ‘Ghostbusters’ boxes. So much so that it sticks its head up its own spectral deformity. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: When Ray Stanz (Dan Ackroyd) receives a strange object from…

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Drive Away Dolls (15): Ethan Coen Dilutes His Brand With Unfunny Lesbian Caper.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Drive Away Dolls". #DriveAwayDolls. Lesbian comedy road movie fails to raise laughs. 2/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Drive Away Dolls” (2024). The Coen brothers hold a solid standing of respect with me. There films, although variable, have never been less than interesting. The trailor for this solo outing, directed by Ethan Coen and co-written by Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke, looked quirky and fun. And it featured an all star cast. I like a raunchy comedy like the best of them…

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Cabrini (12): Barbie in Black! The Extraordinary True Tale of a Woman Battling Discrimination and the Patriarchy.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Cabrini". #cabrinifilm. An extraordinary true story of an amazing woman. 5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Cabrini” (2024). When my two Flickering Dreams colleagues, Andy Godfrey and Scott Forbes, BOTH gave “Cabrini” an unusual 10/10 score, I made it my mission to find a showing. Not easy, as it seems to be on very limited release. But I found it on show in “Everyman” and was so glad I did. Extraordinary stuff. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: In a remarkable…

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Flickering Dreams podcast: Reviews of Cabrini, Irish Wish & Drive Away Dolls (20/03/2024)

This weeks #FlickeringDreams podcast summary - featuring #Cabrini, #IrishWish and #DriveAwayDolls.

Featuring:– Dr Bob Mann from One Mann’s Movies & film reviewer on BBC Radio Solent;– Scott Forbes from The Forbes Film and TV Review on Facebook;– Emma Sewell from Emma@The Movies; and– The Reverend Andy Godfrey from Konnect Radio and Sorted Magazine.We’ve changed the format of Flickering Dreams to break the recordings into different episodes for different films. So in this post I invite you to…

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Ricky Stanicky (15): 2024 really is the year for Imaginary Friends!

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Ricky Stanicky" on #PrimeVideo. #RickyStanicky. A one-joke comedy that quickly becomes tiresome. 2/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Ricky Stanicky” (2024). It’s just amazing how new releases will follow trends. 2022 was the year of the Multiverse. Last year was the year of AI. This year, we seem to have a glut of films about Imaginary Friends! Last week I reviewed “Imaginary“: a horror film about an imaginary friend. In mid-May we are due to get “IF” – probably the big-hitter for the year,…

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Bob Marley: One Life (12): The Sanitised Version.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of Bob Marley: One Love. #BobMarleyOneLove. So-so biopic that sanitises a short but turbulent life. 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bob Marley: One Love” (2024). I must be about the last person to get to see “Bob Marley: One Love” at the cinema. Holidays and other movie new releases have got in the way. That being said, it has been 5 weeks in the UK charts (and is still at number 3 in the charts having made over £15 million)… so maybe it has a couple more weeks anyway. Bob the Movie Man…

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