This week’s film of choice for BMAF was the film of the real-life events that occurred on a climbing expedition to the top of Everest in 1996. The film follows Rob Hall (played by Jason Clarke, recently seen in Terminator: Genisys) and his tour company which helps the adventures fulfil their ambitions to scale the peak of Everest, amongst them are Doug (John Hawkes) and Beck … [Read more...]
Disney’s Million Dollar Arm: You’ll be a ‘Mad Man’ to miss it
This weekend at the home of BMaF, Mrs Barking Mad chose our choice of film for our now usual Sunday night ritual. And what a cracker she chose in Disney's Million Dollar Arm. Star of one of our favourite TV shows 'Mad Men' Jon (Donald Draper) Hamm stars as JB who has left his relatively safe sports agent job to go it alone with his friend Aash (Aasif Mandvi), but their one … [Read more...]
Were we wild about Wild?
This weekend we watched the 2014 film wild, the true story of one woman's undertaking of a 1100 mile hike following the break up of her marriage and death of her mother Following the death of her mother, Cheryl played by Reese Witherspoon went out of control, sleeping around, drinking and getting a drug addiction which led down to the breakdown of her marriage but having … [Read more...]
Watching the ‘Middle Men’ that shaped how we shop online
In our house, one show rules our TV at present, it is the legal drama 'Suits'. It’s lead is a character called Harvey Specter player by Gabriel Macht who is absolutely fantastic in this role, yet I had only seen him previously in films that have left me not exactly wowed, in particular the Kate Beckinsale Antarctica thriller ‘Whiteout’ and Frank (Sin City) Miller’s The … [Read more...]