We at Barking Mad About love Tim Burton films, for us he hasn’t made a bad film, but his remakes and reboots whilst hugely enjoyable to watch are not a match for his original tales such as Beetlejuice; Edward Scissorhands; Sleepy Hollow and our personal favourite of his, Ed Wood. His reboots/remakes seem to get him the most criticism starting from his remake of Planet of the … [Read more...]
X-Men: Apocalypse BMAF review
We saw X-Men: Apocalypse yesterday, despite complaining just last week of ‘Superhero fatigue’, yet this franchise is one we have always enjoyed! If we are honest, we don’t really mind X-Men: The Last Stand As is almost the norm, since then the franchise was rebooted with a prequel. X-Men: First Class, which told the story of Eric (Michael Fassbender) and Charles (James … [Read more...]
Captain America: Civil War! MARVELlous or not?
This week, we went off to see Captain America: Civil War, with high hopes, after all, we thought The Winter Soldier, the previous Captain America entry, was one of Marvel’s better films. Adding further evidence, critics and audiences alike were heaping praise on it, with rave reviews and massive box office records. If honest though we think we may have superhero fatigue! We … [Read more...]
We Miss Original Blockbuster Movies!
We were looking at the latest film times online, planning our next trip and we are clearly now in Blockbuster season. Proven by the fact that we definitely look like heading out to see Captain America: Civil War, for our next choice. But whilst there, we noticed tickets are now also available for X-Men: Apocalypse, which will highly likely be our next choice. We then felt a … [Read more...]
The new film trend we don’t like!
Way back in 1977, Star Wars hit our screens, but oddly it was titled Episode IV: A New Hope. As we all know, they did go back one day and made episodes I-III and more recently, we were given Episode VII : The Force Awakens. We believe way back in 1977, George Lucas always said that he had planned 9 films but only made 6! The baton now passed on to other … [Read more...]