We at BMAF would say our favourite book by the incredibly talented Dr.Seuss has to be How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Luckily for us, when adapted it has done rather well, we shall not mention the horror that was the live-action Cat in the Hat movie with Mike Myers! The Ron Howard directed version of The Grinch, with Jim Carrey as the grumpy old green creature, is … [Read more...]
We Have A Haunted Halloween courtesy of Goosebumps 2
Synopsis Two young friends, Sonny and Sam look to raise extra money by collecting scrap, on one of their jobs they find a book and an old ventriloquist dummy, which is, of course, Slappy from the first film and the book is Haunted Honeymoon, an unfinished book by R.L. Stine The book will unleash mischief all over town and with the help of Sonny’s sister, Sarah they must … [Read more...]
Is This Animated Film Something to ‘Sing’ About?
Today we saw animated box office hit Sing from writer/director Garth Jennings about some animals competing in a talent show. The film follows a Koala bear called Buster Moon (Voiced by Matthew McConaughey) who owns a failing theatre and is desperate to put on one big show to save it from closure. With the popularity of talent shows on TV, he believes that by putting one … [Read more...]
Is Disney’s Moana Something to Moan or Cheer About?
This week’s rental was Moana, an animated box office hit from Disney, that we missed on its cinema release. Set in Polynesia, an island has been cursed following the theft of a stone by the demigod Maui (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) that is the mystical heart of the island goddess Te Fiti! The curse has now reached an alarming situation, as the village crops are dying and … [Read more...]
Get The Frobscottle’s In, BMAF Watch The BFG
We finally caught up with Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s much-loved children’s book The BFG, from a script by his E.T. writer Melissa Mathison. It was not a book we had read if we were honest, nor had we seen the previous and much-loved UK animated TV version of the tale, with the voice of David Jason, but we had heard so many people say that this was a … [Read more...]