1985, whilst doing my paper round, I used to change my route to avoid seeing the poster for a horror film which I found quite scary! The poster featured a female vampire with mouth wide open to expose her fangs above a house. That film was Fright Night Moving on, a rainy day in a video shop with my younger brother, we tried to find a film to watch. He naturally chose … [Read more...]
Great Scott! Back to the Future is now in the Past
In film history, Marty McFly went to Wednesday 21st October 2015 in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II. The internet, after many a fake post about previous dates he went to, finally got excited for the date to become reality. No more so was this noticeable than on the internet, the build up was fantastic! Pepsi revealed they were going to make and … [Read more...]
Has Your Favourite Movie Character Gone ‘Pop’ by Funko!
When I was a lad, movie merchandise was in general maybe a tie-in magazine, book, badges, jigsaws, T-shirts and the like but along came Star Wars in 1977, which changed everything, instead of ‘Action Man’, the action figure was born, a 5 inch replica of our heroes Han, Luke and the like (as well as Darth and his troopers of course =) Excellent marketing showed the list of … [Read more...]
TED 2: Bear-illiant or Not?
So in 2012 the creator Family Guy Seth MacFarlane released his first live action cinema film, Ted about a Bear that comes to life Of course being from the creator of Family Guy, this was no Paddington bear, this was a foul mouthed, pot smoking rude bear and the film certainly had its laugh out loud moments and certainly was worth our time although it would be fair to say … [Read more...]
From Pop to Flop or Greatness: When singers want to act
Sunday night at Barking Mad About Films HQ is movie night and this week was the turn of Mrs Barking Mad to choose (I went there =) she chose Box She chose Box Office smash 50 Shades of Grey, the ‘naughty’ romantic drama to put it lightly. Now who should pop up as Christian’s sister, singer and talent show judge Rita Ora Whilst the film just about kept my attention, my … [Read more...]