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Barking Mad About Films, TV, and Books

One man and his dog; both barking mad about films, TV, and books

The BMAF 2017 Half Year Top 10 Films

July 1, 2017 by Bill Leave a Comment

Film posters of the top 10 films of the first half of 2017 for our blog

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...]

Is La La Land A Film To Sing About?

January 13, 2017 by Bill Leave a Comment

Chihuahua with cinema ticket

This week we watched La La Land, we heard good things about this film, but apart from knowing it’s a musical, didn’t know too much about it. We chose to see this more on the fact it was from writer/director Damien Chazelle who made the excellent Whiplash.  The film opens with a huge traffic jam, a driver looks to be getting out of their car to see why the cars are not … [Read more...]

Hold The Front Page! BMAF review Spotlight

August 22, 2016 by Bill Leave a Comment

Chihuahua and Spotlight on BluRay

This week, we finally got round to seeing this year’s Oscar-winning film for best picture, Spotlight.   The film inspired by true events and is incredibly  written by writer/director Tom McCarthy, the same writer/director of Adam Sandler film The Cobbler, A film more associated with the Golden Raspberries than the Academy awards!! The film concerns the serious and … [Read more...]

BMAF Gets A Room (To Watch)

August 10, 2016 by Bill Leave a Comment

This week’s film choice was Room from director Lenny Abrahamson, based on the book by Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centres on a young woman called Ma (Brie Larson), and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) who we quickly learn are being held captive by the mysterious Old Nick (Sean Bridgers) in the Room of the film title,which has a bed, wardrobe, a … [Read more...]

Does Creed offer a Knockout film for the Rocky legacy

January 16, 2016 by Bill Leave a Comment

One of the BMAF top 10 films of last year was the Boxing movie, Southpaw, which we blogged about. You can read that here: here https://barkingmadaboutfilms-com.stackstaging.com/southpaw/ We highlighted that in our opinion, at the movies, Boxing seems to be the sport to beat, when looking for great sporting films. The Fighter; Cinderella Man; Raging Ball; Million Dollar … [Read more...]

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