This week’s rental was the comedy-drama biopic of Florence Foster Jenkins by acclaimed directed Stephen Frears, from a script by Nicholas Martin. The story follows Florence (Meryl Streep) a New York heiress & socialite who founded the Verdi club to celebrate a love for Opera & Music. She is married to St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), an English Shakespearean … [Read more...]
We Read The More You Ignore Me Ahead of its Film Adaptation
When we heard the synopsis of the book The More You Ignore Me by Author and Comedian, Jo Brand, after hearing it was to be adapted for the big screen, we quickly obtained a copy. We only heard of the film being made, as it made a fair bit of coverage in the UK as Sheridan Smith was to be cast as Gina Wildgoose, a mother prone to psychotic episodes and we are fans of … [Read more...]
The Lego Movie, Everything Is Awesome…Maybe?
We at BMAF are planning on seeing The Lego Batman Movie soon, so decided to get ready for it by watching The Lego Movie. From the directing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who brought us 21 and 22 Jump Street, as well as the previous animated success, Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs, this film follows Emmet Brickowoski (voiced by Chris Pratt) a Lego construction … [Read more...]
Choose Life! Choose to Watch Trainspotting!
We at BMAF hope to fit in a visit to see 'T2:Trainspotting' this week, the sequel to a film we first saw 21 years ages. With these plans, we dug out our DVD copy to give the original Trainspotting a watch to revisit the story so far. Trainspotting, based on the book by Irvine Welsh was brought to screen by the team that also made the excellent Shallow Grave, from writer John … [Read more...]
Is La La Land A Film To Sing About?
This week we watched La La Land, we heard good things about this film, but apart from knowing it’s a musical, didn’t know too much about it. We chose to see this more on the fact it was from writer/director Damien Chazelle who made the excellent Whiplash. The film opens with a huge traffic jam, a driver looks to be getting out of their car to see why the cars are not … [Read more...]