This week we went out to see The Mummy, a new film to be part of the Dark Universe movie series with Universal Studios looking to bring all their classic monsters back to the big screen. The Mummy, personally I would have thought would have been done later on in the series when it was more established, given that for most, this was the Universal monster known to most thanks … [Read more...]
BMAF Spend Time at Manchester By The Sea
This week we spent some time at Manchester-By-The-Sea as we caught up with watching one of this year's big Oscar Nominate films. We follow Lee (Casey Affleck) a loner who has left his previous home and life in Manchester-By-The-Sea in Massachusetts, working as a handyman at an apartment complex in the nearby town of Quincy. Lee has very minimal contact with those he does … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Films revisit Brendan Fraser’s Mummy
With a new telling of The Mummy starring Tom Cruise, we felt it was a good time to re-visit the 1999 version. From Stephen Sommers, who also directed another one of our favourite films, Deep Rising, this film starred Brendan Fraser, in his first real action hero role, having been known for comedies such as Encino/California Man; Blast from the Past and George of the … [Read more...]
Is Baywatch Worth a Watch? A BMAF review
Sometimes you want to see a film where you don’t need to give it too much concentration, hence why we ending up going to see Baywatch, even though we had never even seen an episode of the TV show. We especially liked that it was a comedy, which will make a change from all the big action blockbusters being released at the present time. The Baywatch film has plenty to … [Read more...]
USS Indianapolis sees Nic Cage Meets Sharks Without a Cage
Today, being big fans of Jaws, we watched USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, a film concerning the mission that Robert Shaw tells us Quint was involved in, whilst on the Orca. We had seen a TV movie called Mission of the Shark starring Stacy Keach many a year ago but the cast on this one was too good to give it a miss. A cast that is headlined by Nicolas Cage, with a young … [Read more...]