We discovered Andy Weir’s book late, but everyone I knew that had read it and loved it, so we gave it a go, and we loved it too of course! The story is simple enough, a space exploration team on Mars have to make an emergency evacuation due to changing conditions, during which team member Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) is struck by flying debris and presumed dead, leaving … [Read more...]
Why today is a great day to revisit the Pirates of the Caribbean’s first adventure
Today September 19th is the International Talk like a Pirate day http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ and what better film to suggest you enjoy on this day than the original (and by far the best) The Curse of the Black Pearl This is one of those films that has been tainted by not so good sequels (3 at present with another one incoming) but the original is fantastic and gave … [Read more...]
Jaws: The film we are most ‘Barking Mad’ about so leave it alone!
We, at BMAF, were most alarmed with the news that Steven Spielberg was taking Dreamworks from Disney to Universal. Nothing to be alarmed at, these things happen, Star Wars went from Fox to Disney recently and seems to be in safe hands or so we thought If like us, you are Barking Mad about Films, you probably follow lots of movie-related sites and one post kept coming up; … [Read more...]
Game over for Adam Sandler? BMAF go to see Pixels
Recently we defended Tom Cruise in our blog and whilst we are not taking credit for it, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation was a box office smash Someone else who also seems to be disliked as much as liked is Adam Sandler, who entered this Summer's crowed Box Office with Pixels based on a short feature, it's premise certainly sounded fun, classic arcade games come down from … [Read more...]
Fantastic or Not Fantastic Four?
This week's choice of film for BMaF was one out of curiosity as we chose to see the reboot of the Fantastic Four, a film that seems to have been plagued with issues around its production, which only seem to be enhanced when it was announced the film would not be screening for critics, normally a good sign that the film may not be the best At one point this was even talked about … [Read more...]