With Blade Runner 2049 arriving this year, and our most anticipated film in the second half of this year, we knew we wanted to revisit the original before seeing it. The first film released way back in 1982 was considered a box office disaster yet luckily over the years audiences and filmmakers have helped it find success. The film has, in fact, got so popular, we have had … [Read more...]
Is IT A Great Adaptation Of A Stephen KIng Book?
We are fans of the books of Stephen King, and one of the ones we enjoyed the most was It, which gave us the iconic Pennywise the Clown, who is already known to many having already been immortalised by the legendary Tim Curry, in a 1990 TV mini series adaptation. With liking both the book and mini-series, as well as giving them a re-watch, we were highly excited to see … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Films Head To The Tower
This week we saw The Dark Tower, the latest film to be adapted from the books of Stephen King. However, unlike many other King novels we had not read any of the Dark Tower stories so went into the film with an open mind. From Director Nikolaj Arcel, the film is a science fiction fantasy with a bit of a western thrown in. The film introduces us to Roland the Gunslinger … [Read more...]
The BMAF 2017 Half Year Top 10 Films
So as we reach the halfway point of 2017, we look back on our favourite 10 films of the year so far. We are pleased to see it's not all sequels and yet despite claims of suffering comic book film fatigue, 2 comic book films made the list and again both from the Marvel studio, yet DC Comics Wonder Woman only narrowly missed our list. So here is our countdown, we are sure … [Read more...]
Should You Never Go Back To Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher
Our latest rental was Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. A return to the character created by author Lee Child for Tom Cruise. Based on the book of the same name, the film reteams Tom with his The Last Samurai director, Edward Zwick The film opens up with Reacher (Tom Cruise) getting some corrupt police officers arrested for human trafficking. During this sequence, it is … [Read more...]