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Barking Mad About Films, TV, and Books

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

Does Time Bandits Remain A Timeless Classic?

August 21, 2016 by Bill Leave a Comment

Chihuahua with Time Bandits on DVD

This week at Barking Mad About Films we chose to watch the 1981 classic Time Bandits. A film we were reminded of following the sad news that actor Kenny Baker, probably best known for being the man inside R2-D2 from Star Wars had passed away. Kenny plays Fidgit, one of the Time Bandits of the film, directed by Terry Gilliam, who also co-wrote the film with his Monty Python … [Read more...]

The Shallows! Is This Shark Thriller JAWSome?

August 11, 2016 by Bill Leave a Comment

When we heard about The Shallows film, because of it featuring a shark, it quickly became one of our must-see films of the year. Shark films are a guilty pleasure for us here at Barking Mad About Films, a fact that we’ve blogged about before https://barkingmadaboutfilms-com.stackstaging.com/shark/ Jaws, is our all time favourite film. The film also gave us a fascination … [Read more...]

Can Stephen King Make You Scared Of Your Cell Phone?

July 27, 2016 by Bill Leave a Comment

Chihuahua and Stephen King's book Cell

With news of Cell, the bestseller from ‘The King of Horror’ Stephen King, heading to our screen, we quickly found the book in a charity shop and gave it a read, to find out if it will be a great movie. Of course, reading the book will not tell us what the film will be like, King’s works have ranged from the excellent such as Misery; Stand By Me and The Mist to the not so … [Read more...]

Barking Mad About Shark Films

June 27, 2016 by Bill 1 Comment

Shark films on DVD and BluRay

At the time of writing this, it’s the 2016 Shark Week, which normally means many channels have programmes about these fishy stars of many a film, since one first rose to fame on screen with a simple der dum, der dum theme tune. That film was of course Jaws, despite being 41 years old this year, it remains barking mad about films favourite film. Our love of this film isn’t … [Read more...]

Should You Grab(oid) At The Chance Of Seeing Another Tremors Movie?

April 17, 2016 by Bill Leave a Comment

Chihuahua and Tremors franchise DVD's

We at Barking Mad About Films do love a creature feature, and one of the best, in our opinion was the 1990 film, Tremors. Directed by Ron Underwood, who would go on to direct the also excellent City Slickers. Also on his CV is Mighty Joe Young. Ron may be best known, however, for directing the huge Eddie Murphy box office flop: The Adventures of Pluto Nash.  Ron now … [Read more...]

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