We’re not sure if we are getting older, but we seem to have gone off comic book films, they all look good and we are entertained in the whole for about 2/3rd’s of the film but then they all turn into a big CGI mess of a finale, yet we knew we wanted to see Thor: Ragnarok. Thor seems to possibly the least liked of the Marvel film characters but with this film being directed … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Films Return to the World of Kingsman
Ever since director Matthew Vaughn moved from product to director his films have been ones to watch from Layer Cake; Stardust; Kick-Ass; X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Secret Service. Now if we were honest, we found Kingsman the weakest of these, yet this is the film he has chosen to make for his first sequel, leaving other franchises to continue with other directors … [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...]
Does The Hitman’s Bodguard Shoot to Film Greatness?
Our film choice this week was The Hitman’s Bodyguard, an action comedy which stars Samuel L Jackson and Ryan Reynolds (who we had already seen in great films this year, Samuel in Kong: Skull Island and Ryan in Life, so hoping for more of the same). We first became aware of it when it released an excellent parody poster of the Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston smash The … [Read more...]
BMAF Join Valerian to Visit The City of a 1000 Planets
We could not wait to see Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets which is based on the popular graphic novel series Valerian. Whilst his last film Lucy was also SyFy, this was big budget fare more like his classic The Fifth Element. The film opens with a montage of first encounters to take us to the 28th Century and Space Station Alpha (known as the City of … [Read more...]