This week, Mrs. BMAF had chosen Sisters for our regular Sunday night film to watch. This comedy starred probably 2 of the funniest women about today, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Best known for their television hits 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation, that success has maybe not given them the same amount of screen success, the 2 did star together in the very funny Mean Girls … [Read more...]
Do We Rate High-Rise Highly?
We read J.G. Ballard’s book a while back when we heard High-Rise was to be made into a film. The reason for our interest was that it was to be directed by Ben Wheatley, who had given us amongst others, Down Terrace; Kill List and Sightseers, which we had enjoyed. The story centres around Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston), who in the book we learn is moving to the High-Rise, … [Read more...]
Is Dory’s New Adventure Worth Finding?
Pixar Animation studios have given Disney and us some amazing films over the years, from Toy Story to Wall-E. The films are loved by cinema-goers around the world and most will have a favourite, for us it was their 2003 film, Finding Nemo. When we heard a sequel, Finding Dory, was on the way, we had to contain our excitement, as whilst Toy Story 2 was as good as the … [Read more...]
BMAF Go Beyond With Star Trek
This week, we watched Star Trek Beyond. The third for the new Star Trek crew brought to the screen by J.J. Abrams in 2009 and followed up by Star Trek Into Darkness in 2013. We had mixed views going in with direction now being handled by Justin Lin, our concerns being he was more known for his Fast and Furious films, yet we were put at ease knowing Simon Pegg, as well as … [Read more...]
Adding Zombies to a period drama
We finally got round to seeing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies this week. Poor timing saw the film fail at the box office as was released at the same time as Zoolander 2 and Deadpool which meant fewer screenings, as those 2 enjoyed multiple screens. The film is based on the Jane Austen book, but with the additional material of Zombies added to the story by Seth … [Read more...]