If there is one thing we like at Barking Mad About Films, it’s a creature feature so despite a bashing from the critics, we booked tickets to see The Great Wall. Set in China, the film tells how The Great Wall was actually built to protect China from creatures known as the Tao Tei. The film was hit by a backlash before the film was even released over whitewashing claims, due … [Read more...]
Are We Bats About The Lego Batman Movie?
So this week we saw The Lego Batman Movie, we must admit we were quite excited about it as the Lego Batman of the Lego Movie was for us the film highlight. Those high hopes increased by the film opening as we get a commentary of the opening titles by Batman (again voiced by Will Arnett) setting up what we hoped would be a lot of fun. The story shows that Bruce … [Read more...]
The Lego Movie, Everything Is Awesome…Maybe?
We at BMAF are planning on seeing The Lego Batman Movie soon, so decided to get ready for it by watching The Lego Movie. From the directing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who brought us 21 and 22 Jump Street, as well as the previous animated success, Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs, this film follows Emmet Brickowoski (voiced by Chris Pratt) a Lego construction … [Read more...]
Get The Frobscottle’s In, BMAF Watch The BFG
We finally caught up with Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s much-loved children’s book The BFG, from a script by his E.T. writer Melissa Mathison. It was not a book we had read if we were honest, nor had we seen the previous and much-loved UK animated TV version of the tale, with the voice of David Jason, but we had heard so many people say that this was a … [Read more...]
Does Now You See Me 2 Bring Back Magic of The Original?
The first Now You See Me film was an unexpected delight, with a great cast, which was a good original thriller, with a lot of escapism and fun on the way, so we finally got round to seeing Now You See Me 2. The film finds the Horsemen; J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) & Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) in hiding still, after outwitting the … [Read more...]