When I was a lad, movie merchandise was in general maybe a tie-in magazine, book, badges, jigsaws, T-shirts and the like but along came Star Wars in 1977, which changed everything, instead of ‘Action Man’, the action figure was born, a 5 inch replica of our heroes Han, Luke and the like (as well as Darth and his troopers of course =) Excellent marketing showed the list of … [Read more...]
Solace: Farrell and Hopkins see into the future
In a quiet week of cinema releases, a film called Solace was released starring Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell, we hadn’t heard of it before, had not even seen a trailer so felt like one of those many direct to DVD’s films Nicolas Cage turns up in of late. So we were quite happy to let this one pass us by until we read an article about the film where we discovered that the … [Read more...]
From the Cinema to TV: The New Trend to Turn Films Into TV shows
Over recent years, TV has been talked about as the new cinema, due to the storytelling of such shows as Game Of Thrones, The Wire and our personal favourite, Breaking Bad. However, it appears this has now come full circle with our cinematic favourites now being turned into the new TV! Of course this idea is not new and can work, one of our favourite TV show’s started its life … [Read more...]
Caged In: When Paying the Bills Means Straight to DVD for Nicolas
This weekend, Channel 5, one of our TV stations had a disaster movie weekend and amongst their chosen features was the network premiere of 2014 film Left Behind. A film, of what seems to be a never-ending list starring Nicolas Cage! Due to his well-known issues with the Tax Man, he seems to have a film come out every 4-6 months to pay the bills, some of which you may have seen … [Read more...]
The Theory of Everything: A Film About an Award Winning Scientist Worthy of Its Film Awards
Sunday night at the home of the BMAF is generally movie night taking advantage of the rental service we belong to. My cinema visits tend to involve just about anything, although a creature feature will always be high on my list but as home movie night involves the great Mrs BMAF the film will normally be more grounded in real life and no more so than this week’s choice, the 5 … [Read more...]