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...]
The Theory of Everything: A Film About an Award Winning Scientist Worthy of Its Film Awards
Sunday night at the home of the BMAF is generally movie night taking advantage of the rental service we belong to. My cinema visits tend to involve just about anything, although a creature feature will always be high on my list but as home movie night involves the great Mrs BMAF the film will normally be more grounded in real life and no more so than this week’s choice, the 5 … [Read more...]
The Scorch Trials: BMAF goes back to the Maze
If it’s not Sequels; Remakes; Reboots or Comic Book films, it's likely to be a film based on a YA (Young Adult Novel) Our personal favourite is The Hunger Games (Of course having Jennifer Lawrence, being our fav Actress in it, probably helps) but these YA films from books have done exceptionally well from the Twilight Saga/Harry Potter to those that didn’t even get past the … [Read more...]