We watched Disney’s remake of their 1977 film Pete’s Dragon, as they continue to bring us live action reincarnations of their classic films, following the success of the Jungle Book, with reports that Dumbo and the Lion King are to follow. Now whilst reboot/remakes are horrific when they take on films you love and are nowhere near as good, for us we would include The Fog; … [Read more...]
Is La La Land A Film To Sing About?
This week we watched La La Land, we heard good things about this film, but apart from knowing it’s a musical, didn’t know too much about it. We chose to see this more on the fact it was from writer/director Damien Chazelle who made the excellent Whiplash. The film opens with a huge traffic jam, a driver looks to be getting out of their car to see why the cars are not … [Read more...]
The Barking Mad About Films Top Five Favourite Movie Musicals
We at Barking Mad About Films are hopefully heading off to see La La Land, a new film musical from Damian Chazelle, the writer/director of Whiplash. This got us thinking of our favourite Film musicals os here are ours. 5. Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street We knew we wanted to include a Tim film, but we went with Todd starring Johnny Depp, based … [Read more...]
BMAF Watch Beautiful Creatures In Another YA Book Adaptation
Over the festive period we picked up Beautiful Creatures on BluRay, it was one of those £1 films in Poundland, we hadn’t seen it, didn’t know much about it but knew that it starred Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan, who has been cast as Han Solo in the new Star Wars Anthology film, scheduled for a 2018 release. We had never seen him lead a film before, and looking at his IMDb … [Read more...]
Passengers With Romance and Danger it’s Titanic in Space
We rushed out to see Passengers this week, it really did sound like one to watch, with a cast of Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, and from director Morten Tyldum, who had brought us The Imitation Game and Headhunters, based on the Jo Nesbo book to critical acclaim. The screenplay from Jon Spaihts had been on a blacklist since 2007 for most liked, yet unmade scripts so we … [Read more...]