We were walking down our high street when we saw a plush of Stitch from Disney’s Lilo and Stitch, our favourite animated film character, the reason he first stood out was because he was green and not blue. Intrigued, we went in for a closer look and noticed he had a lightsaber in his hand, then the outfit clicked and we realised he had been done as Star Wars Jedi master, … [Read more...]
The Good & The Bad Of The Reboot/Remake
The reboot/remake is becoming increasingly more popular, with old favourites being turned into new movies or the now popular spin-off TV shows, with Lethal Weapon and Mallrats being the latest to be announced. The idea is of course not new, one of our favourite films of all time John Carpenter’s The Thing was a remake of 1951 classic The Thing From Another World. In … [Read more...]
BMAF Read Inferno Prior To Its Big Screen Adaptation
Every so on a book comes along that will appear everywhere, many a train journey I had where everyone was reading a Harry Potter book, whilst not so obvious now due to the Kindle, the last book sensation would have been the Fifty Shades of Grey books. Prior to that the biggest bestseller that I can recall was Dan Brown’s The DaVinci code, so like everyone else I got onboard … [Read more...]
Review: Are we Nice about The Nice Guys
This week our films choice was the action/buddy movie The Nice Guys. A film we were very much looking forward to as from writer/director Shane Black whose last outing, Iron Man 3 was disappointing, his last film of this genre was Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang which was fantastic. In fact ignoring Iron Man 3, Shane has also written screenplays for epic action/buddy movies such as the … [Read more...]
BMAF watch a ‘Job Lot’ of Steve Jobs films
This week movie rental was one of the big Oscar contenders of last year, Steve Jobs. We however not so long ago also saw his story portrayed in the 2013 film Jobs. The 2013 film had Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and covers most of his career including the creation of the first Apple computer and way up to the creation of the iPod. The latest Steve Jobs film, however, gives … [Read more...]