This week we saw The Dark Tower, the latest film to be adapted from the books of Stephen King. However, unlike many other King novels we had not read any of the Dark Tower stories so went into the film with an open mind. From Director Nikolaj Arcel, the film is a science fiction fantasy with a bit of a western thrown in. The film introduces us to Roland the Gunslinger … [Read more...]
Were We Glad To Have Found The Founder?
We recently watched The Founder, a film that passed us by at the cinema but one that was definitely on our to watch list. The film from director John Lee Hancock (who also brought us Saving Mr Banks) and from the writer of The Wrestler, Robert Siegel had us expecting a great film on this incredible true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) met 2 proud, hard working … [Read more...]
We See How Tom Cruise Was ‘American Made’
This week we headed off to see American Made which re-teamed Director Doug Liman with Tom Cruise, a combination that worked so well with Edge of Tomorrow Now we are strong Cruise defenders, but we were left more than disappointed by his earlier film this year The Mummy but American Made we are pleased to see is a fine return to form. The film is made even more incredible … [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...]
Dunkirk – A War Film Like No Other!
This week, even though we are not a fan of War movies, we went to see Dunkirk, simply because its director Christopher Nolan had given us some cinematic masterpieces such as The Dark Knight and Inception. The film was like nothing we had seen before as it plays almost like a silent movie, in that there is not much in the way of script, we mainly just follow two soldiers … [Read more...]