This week we saw Wonder Woman, a female-led comic book film which we had a lot of people sharing their love for. Now I am of an age where I think of Wonder Woman as Lynda Carter from the TV series but giving Gal Gadot’s performance was pretty much the best thing about Batman V Superman so I wanted to give this film a go myself. We went into the film in all honesty with … [Read more...]
BMA Enter The Void For Old School Horror Special Effects
Today we caught up with watching The Void, a horror film that we had wanted to see for quite a while. The film was set us using crowd funding and like Harbinger Down, which also was made with help of crowd funding, promised minimal CGI and proper old school Special Effects. The film opens with a couple escaping a farmhouse, the man makes it to the woods but the woman is … [Read more...]
We Enter The Dark Universe To See Tom Cruise’s Mummy
This week we went out to see The Mummy, a new film to be part of the Dark Universe movie series with Universal Studios looking to bring all their classic monsters back to the big screen. The Mummy, personally I would have thought would have been done later on in the series when it was more established, given that for most, this was the Universal monster known to most thanks … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Films revisit Brendan Fraser’s Mummy
With a new telling of The Mummy starring Tom Cruise, we felt it was a good time to re-visit the 1999 version. From Stephen Sommers, who also directed another one of our favourite films, Deep Rising, this film starred Brendan Fraser, in his first real action hero role, having been known for comedies such as Encino/California Man; Blast from the Past and George of the … [Read more...]
Is Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Movie Treasure to Seek?
Today, we went to see the Fifth instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Depending on where you live, it’ll either be called Salazar’s Revenge or Dead Men Tell No Tales. Now we have liked the previous sequels but in all honesty, never found any of them to quite bring back the magic of the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl. Well, this 5th film is … [Read more...]