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Barking Mad About Films, TV, and Books

One man and his dog; both barking mad about films, TV, and books

Did We Go Wild For Hunt For The Wilderpeople?

January 8, 2017 by Bill Leave a Comment

We finally got to see Taiki Waititi’s 'Hunt For The Wilderpeople', a film that did not make our local cinema, yet we desperately wanted to see as a fan of his last film, What We Do In The Shadows and a lot of his earlier work, in particular, his Eagle Vs Shark and TV’s Flight of the Conchords. It has now arrived on the UK Netflix so we could not wait to watch it. The film is … [Read more...]

Film Review: A Monster Calls, But Does It Do The Book Justice?

January 6, 2017 by Bill Leave a Comment

One of our favourite reads of last year was Patrick Ness novel ‘A Monster Calls’ from an idea by Siobhan Dowd. We discovered the book, after hearing it was to become a Movie, and knew we wanted to read before seeing it! So does the film do the book justice, Patrick Ness had written the script and from the director of The Orphanage and The Impossible, J.A. Bayona we had very … [Read more...]

BMAF Watch Beautiful Creatures In Another YA Book Adaptation

January 4, 2017 by Bill Leave a Comment

Over the festive period we picked up Beautiful Creatures on BluRay, it was one of those £1 films in Poundland, we hadn’t seen it, didn’t know much about it but knew that it starred Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan, who has been cast as Han Solo in the new Star Wars Anthology film, scheduled for a 2018 release. We had never seen him lead a film before, and looking at his IMDb … [Read more...]

We Read Red Sparrow, ahead of its Movie Adaptation

January 3, 2017 by Bill Leave a Comment

Chihuahua with Red Sparrow book

Here at Barking Mad About Films, we tend to choose a lot of the books we read on hearing they are to become films. Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews was no exception. When we heard Jennifer Lawrence was attached to the film adaptation, reuniting with her Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Hunger Games: Mockingjay director, Francis Lawrence. Of course, the trouble with reading a … [Read more...]

10 Films That BMAF Can’t Wait To See For 2017

January 2, 2017 by Bill 1 Comment

10 Coming Soon Films

As we sat down and had a look at the films coming out for this year, we chose 10 which I guess may not look very original, but we want to see them none the less. Plenty of others we considered such as the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie; Murder on the Orient Express; War for the Planet of the Apes; Kingsman 2; Paddington 2; The Mummy and even Baywatch!  The truth is … [Read more...]

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