Our most recent cinema outing was to see The Belko Experiment, the trailers had us interested as it pitched it as almost the Hunger Games meets The Office. It is based on a script by James Gunn, who decided to discard it when upon completion he was going through a divorce, and the thought of being involved in a film involving the killing of loved ones didn’t sit right with … [Read more...]
Did We Find Keanu a Purr-fect Action Comedy Film?
Even though we are Barking Mad About Films, we don’t hate the feline species so we finally caught up with the Kitten action comedy film that is Keanu. The film starts with a pair of assassins known as the Allentown Boys (played by Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key) and breaking into a drug den and killing all inside and taking the drug boss, King Diaz’s kitten (Ian … [Read more...]
We Head To The Movies in Search of Life
We love a creature feature so when we saw the first trailer for Life, we knew we wanted to see this one. The real question is of course, is it a great space monster movie like Alien or is it another Alien v Predator dissapointment? The cast is great so we had high hopes for this one written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and directed by Daniel Espinosa. A six-member … [Read more...]
We Enjoy A Classic FX Double Bill of Films
In the UK we have various ‘Freeview’ channels which air movies, some show older classics, like the Horror channel, which we have blogged about previously. Another is Sony’s ‘Moviemix’ channel. A film we discovered was a 1986 thriller called F/X: Murder by Illusion. The film, directed by Robert Mandel, from a script by Gregory Fleeman & Robert T. Megginson, follows … [Read more...]
Is It Worth A Visit To See Kong On Skull Island?
We have written before, that we love a creature feature so it was always likely we were going to see Kong: Skull Island. However coming from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts who we had never heard of, for a blockbuster movie we went in with low hopes, especially as our previous King Kong watches have always left us entertained, but wanting more. It is safe to say that for us, … [Read more...]