What makes a film watchable? These are the 10 things that we feel make a film watchable – which one is your biggest reason for choosing to watch the films that you do? YOUR CHOICE The most important, and the reason I’ve seen so many B-Movie shark movies with a budget of less than it probably cost to buy the DVD but we can't help it, we just love Shark films. If you … [Read more...]
The BMAF Answer to is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?
As the Festive season approaches many share their favourite Christmas films, we are no exception but one that seems to cause more controversy than most is Die Hard Many class this film as a Christmas movie but many say that it's not, we questioned a while ago what makes it non-festive when we saw another film which is clearly set around the period so we agree slightly with … [Read more...]
BMAF Go On ‘The Descent’ In Search Of Scares
As Halloween approaches we tend to look into our film collection for those Horror/Scary films to watch. This year we chose to revisit 2005 British Horror classic The Descent. A film that probably had the same effect on going into caves as Jaws did for those going into the water. From writer/director Neil Marshall, this would be his follow up to the excellent horror debut, … [Read more...]
Do We Suggest You Give The Snowman The Cold Shoulder?
When we first saw the trailer for The Snowman, we quickly read the Jo Nesbo book it is based on which is part of the Harry Hole book series on a recent holiday, and what a page-turner! So much so, we now waited in anticipation for the film release even more than the first viewing of that trailer With its genre known as Scandi-Noir, which has spawned massive TV hits like … [Read more...]
Does Mighty Boosh Julian Give Us A Mighty Film in Mindhorn?
This week we finally got to see Mindhorn, a British film we had hoped to see at the cinema but did not get a release at our local venue. Now available to stream and own, we hoped this Comedy starring Julian Barratt, who we love as Howard Moon in The Mighty Boosh would provide some good laughs. The film tells the story of a struggling actor Richard Thorncroft (played by … [Read more...]