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Barking Mad About Films, TV, and Books

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

Ghostbusters! We ain’t afraid of no reboot

November 13, 2015 by Bill Leave a Comment

Chihuahua with toy Staypuft and Ghostbusters DVD

Every day I see a tweet or a post about how it is an absolute disgrace that Ghostbusters is being remade. What most upsets me is this appears to be because the reboot is having an all female Ghostbusting team. I certainly don’t recall this uproar when Bill Murray; Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson didn't voice the Real Ghostbusters cartoon =) I am a massive fan … [Read more...]

PS, We Love Rosie!

October 19, 2015 by Bill Leave a Comment

Pepper with Cecelia Ahern book and dvd

  Here at the BMAF, we enjoy the books of Cecelia Ahern and our favourite book of hers was PS, I Love You. Sadly, we were really disappointed by the movie adaptation which starred Oscar Winner Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler, we’re not sure why as it was fairly faithful to the book. Because of this, we held off on seeing Love Rosie, based on her 2nd novel, Where … [Read more...]

Re-Watch of The Naked Gun

October 15, 2015 by Bill Leave a Comment

Naked Gun film poster

      When I was younger BBC2 used to put out a 1982 comedy programme from America called Police Squad about a bumbling police officer called Frank Drebin played by Leslie Nielsen who had made a name for himself as a comedy actor since his turn in Airplane! Prior to that his career had been as much serious as fun roles, he is a very good serious … [Read more...]

Film Review: Take Me Home Tonight!

October 14, 2015 by Bill Leave a Comment

Poster for Take Me Home Tonight

This film, directed by Michael Dowse, who made BritCom It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong and the Ice Hockey comedy Goon, appeared in the TV schedule this week. It’s a film that had passed me by, but my interest was perked by seeing Hollywood Man of the Moment, Chris Pratt was in it. Being a RomCom, I took to the sofa with the wife and gave it a go. The story centres around Matt … [Read more...]

Vacation: Should you give this reboot the boot

August 29, 2015 by Bill Leave a Comment

National Lampoon's vacation films with Chevy Chase and its various sequels are normally fun to watch, the Christmas one I seem to find watching every year so I thought why not give the reboot a go The reboot stars Ed Helms (who I love in TV's The Office) as Rusty one of the Griswald children from the Chevy Chase films and Anchorman's Christina Applegate as his wife Debbie, so … [Read more...]

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