It was recently my birthday here at the home of Barking Mad About Films and Pepper (with the help of Mrs. BMAF) brought me the recently released BluRay of the 3 Jaws sequels. I had them on DVD but the highlight of this new edition other than the clearer picture was the inclusion of the 3D version of Jaws 3, which sadly I missed at the cinema in 1983. As I grew up and … [Read more...]
The Shallows! Is This Shark Thriller JAWSome?
When we heard about The Shallows film, because of it featuring a shark, it quickly became one of our must-see films of the year. Shark films are a guilty pleasure for us here at Barking Mad About Films, a fact that we’ve blogged about before https://barkingmadaboutfilms-com.stackstaging.com/shark/ Jaws, is our all time favourite film. The film also gave us a fascination … [Read more...]
The Signs That Help Choose What Film We Rewatch
What inspiration have you had to watch a film? For us, at Barking Mad About Films it could be anything. As an example, whilst out for a drive, the song Live it Up by Mental as Anything came on the radio. It’s a song I like, so much so I have it on 12-inch vinyl, not a download. I know it as being featured in the Paul Hogan Eighties classic, Crocodile Dundee, and just … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Shark Films
At the time of writing this, it’s the 2016 Shark Week, which normally means many channels have programmes about these fishy stars of many a film, since one first rose to fame on screen with a simple der dum, der dum theme tune. That film was of course Jaws, despite being 41 years old this year, it remains barking mad about films favourite film. Our love of this film isn’t … [Read more...]
Leave Streaming to Ghostbusters, we want a DVD
It has recently been announced that Amazon/Love Film service is to have an overhaul of all its disc by posts services. Link to story from the Daily Mail here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3298269/Amazon-customers-horrified-price-hike-customers-paying-FIVE-TIMES-films-delivered-post.html It saddens me that the Mail have heralded this as the death of DVD, I get the … [Read more...]