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
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...]
The BMAF Top 10 Non Human Characters of 2016
Whilst we often see films for our favourite actors/actresses, it can often be the characters they play/voice we fall in love with, and they may be an animated or with advances in CGI and special effects, they can be something else not even human! So who made our Top 10 non-human characters of 2016: 10. Baloo (Voiced by Bill Murray) in the Jungle Book … [Read more...]
BMAF Takes A Ride To See Monster Trucks
Our last cinema trip of 2016 saw us see Monster Trucks a film which must like the reboot of Ghostbusters was being destroyed on the Internetas nowadays everyone is a critic! Yet from the trailers, we just thought it looked a fun family flick with hints of classic horror B movies with some comedy and science fiction thrown in. All the potential to be a cult classic in years … [Read more...]
The Barking Mad About Films Top 10 of 2016
So it’s time for the BMAF Top 10 films of 2016. A year which saw us bored by comic book heroes: Batman V Superman; Suicide Squad and Doctor Strange all were okay but not 5-star movies for us. We also have to add Captain America: Civil War, it may have had a great battle scene but we honestly felt we’d seen most of it in trailers. On the subject of trailers, 10 Cloverfield … [Read more...]