We recently watched The Founder, a film that passed us by at the cinema but one that was definitely on our to watch list. The film from director John Lee Hancock (who also brought us Saving Mr Banks) and from the writer of The Wrestler, Robert Siegel had us expecting a great film on this incredible true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) met 2 proud, hard working … [Read more...]
We See How Tom Cruise Was ‘American Made’
This week we headed off to see American Made which re-teamed Director Doug Liman with Tom Cruise, a combination that worked so well with Edge of Tomorrow Now we are strong Cruise defenders, but we were left more than disappointed by his earlier film this year The Mummy but American Made we are pleased to see is a fine return to form. The film is made even more incredible … [Read more...]
Does The Hitman’s Bodguard Shoot to Film Greatness?
Our film choice this week was The Hitman’s Bodyguard, an action comedy which stars Samuel L Jackson and Ryan Reynolds (who we had already seen in great films this year, Samuel in Kong: Skull Island and Ryan in Life, so hoping for more of the same). We first became aware of it when it released an excellent parody poster of the Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston smash The … [Read more...]
Dunkirk – A War Film Like No Other!
This week, even though we are not a fan of War movies, we went to see Dunkirk, simply because its director Christopher Nolan had given us some cinematic masterpieces such as The Dark Knight and Inception. The film was like nothing we had seen before as it plays almost like a silent movie, in that there is not much in the way of script, we mainly just follow two soldiers … [Read more...]
The BMAF 2017 Half Year Top 10 Films
So as we reach the halfway point of 2017, we look back on our favourite 10 films of the year so far. We are pleased to see it's not all sequels and yet despite claims of suffering comic book film fatigue, 2 comic book films made the list and again both from the Marvel studio, yet DC Comics Wonder Woman only narrowly missed our list. So here is our countdown, we are sure … [Read more...]