In film history, Marty McFly went to Wednesday 21st October 2015 in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II. The internet, after many a fake post about previous dates he went to, finally got excited for the date to become reality. No more so was this noticeable than on the internet, the build up was fantastic! Pepsi revealed they were going to make and … [Read more...]
Horror at Crimson Peak!
In 1997, we saw a film called Mimic from a director called Guillermo Del Toro. Whilst it was a good watch, the director's flair made us check out his first major film, Cronos, which was a lot better and if you speak Spanish or don’t mind subtitles, we suggest you give it a watch. His films have always raised our interest since and it is why we were off to see his latest, … [Read more...]
PS, We Love Rosie!
Here at the BMAF, we enjoy the books of Cecelia Ahern and our favourite book of hers was PS, I Love You. Sadly, we were really disappointed by the movie adaptation which starred Oscar Winner Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler, we’re not sure why as it was fairly faithful to the book. Because of this, we held off on seeing Love Rosie, based on her 2nd novel, Where … [Read more...]
Victor Crowley: One of our favourite Halloween Movie Monsters
There is a long history of movie monsters such as the Hammer Horror classics of Dracula and Frankenstein, to name but 2, but in 1978 an iconic movie monster would hit the screen’s in John Carpenter’s Halloween. That would be the unstoppable killing machine that was Michael Myers, and unlike the 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a franchise started immediately with Halloween 2 … [Read more...]
Re-Watch of The Naked Gun
When I was younger BBC2 used to put out a 1982 comedy programme from America called Police Squad about a bumbling police officer called Frank Drebin played by Leslie Nielsen who had made a name for himself as a comedy actor since his turn in Airplane! Prior to that his career had been as much serious as fun roles, he is a very good serious … [Read more...]