Today we watched 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, in part because we wanted to see the transformation of John Krasinski, (who we love as Jim in the American version of The Office) from his usual RomCom lead to action star From director Michael Bay, who has found fame with the Transformers movies, but we much prefer for his earlier work like B Armageddon, Bad … [Read more...]
Hold The Front Page! BMAF review Spotlight
This week, we finally got round to seeing this year’s Oscar-winning film for best picture, Spotlight. The film inspired by true events and is incredibly written by writer/director Tom McCarthy, the same writer/director of Adam Sandler film The Cobbler, A film more associated with the Golden Raspberries than the Academy awards!! The film concerns the serious and … [Read more...]
BMAF joins David Brent for Life on the Road
Some 13 years have passed since David Brent (Ricky Gervais) left Wernham Hogg to become a travelling salesman in the hugely successful BBC show The Office. In the final episode of the show, it touched upon David becoming a singer, with his attempt to hit the big time included the releasing of a single which didn’t even touch the Top 40. We next saw David in 2013 when he … [Read more...]
The Shallows! Is This Shark Thriller JAWSome?
When we heard about The Shallows film, because of it featuring a shark, it quickly became one of our must-see films of the year. Shark films are a guilty pleasure for us here at Barking Mad About Films, a fact that we’ve blogged about before https://barkingmadaboutfilms-com.stackstaging.com/shark/ Jaws, is our all time favourite film. The film also gave us a fascination … [Read more...]
BMAF Gets A Room (To Watch)
This week’s film choice was Room from director Lenny Abrahamson, based on the book by Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centres on a young woman called Ma (Brie Larson), and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) who we quickly learn are being held captive by the mysterious Old Nick (Sean Bridgers) in the Room of the film title,which has a bed, wardrobe, a … [Read more...]