This week we went out to see The Mummy, a new film to be part of the Dark Universe movie series with Universal Studios looking to bring all their classic monsters back to the big screen. The Mummy, personally I would have thought would have been done later on in the series when it was more established, given that for most, this was the Universal monster known to most thanks … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Films revisit Brendan Fraser’s Mummy
With a new telling of The Mummy starring Tom Cruise, we felt it was a good time to re-visit the 1999 version. From Stephen Sommers, who also directed another one of our favourite films, Deep Rising, this film starred Brendan Fraser, in his first real action hero role, having been known for comedies such as Encino/California Man; Blast from the Past and George of the … [Read more...]
Should You Never Go Back To Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher
Our latest rental was Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. A return to the character created by author Lee Child for Tom Cruise. Based on the book of the same name, the film reteams Tom with his The Last Samurai director, Edward Zwick The film opens up with Reacher (Tom Cruise) getting some corrupt police officers arrested for human trafficking. During this sequence, it is … [Read more...]
Is Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Movie Treasure to Seek?
Today, we went to see the Fifth instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Depending on where you live, it’ll either be called Salazar’s Revenge or Dead Men Tell No Tales. Now we have liked the previous sequels but in all honesty, never found any of them to quite bring back the magic of the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl. Well, this 5th film is … [Read more...]
King Arthur: The Legend of The Sword Review
This week we headed out to see King Arthur: Legend of the Sword the latest film from director Guy Ritchie. This is the King Arthur legend in a way we hadn’t seen before, it takes the legend but adds Ritchie’s style, so we have a hybrid of his earlier films such as Snatch mixed with his more recent Sherlock Holmes films. Unlike the 2004 Antoine Fuqua version of the Arthur … [Read more...]