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...]
Locke: Take A Journey As Tom Hardy’s Passenger
After a string of great performance including Warrior; Inception; Bronson; The Drop and big box office hits The Dark Knight Rises and Mad Max; Fury Road, it would be fair to say we are fans of Tom Hardy now, and we now add Locke to his great films! We first really came aware of him in RocknRolla, the under-rated Guy Ritchie film, but his performances which also include … [Read more...]
Returning to Stephen King’s Pet Sematary
Stephen King is undoubtedly one of, if not the King of horror, his books have terrified us for decades. So it is no surprise that those books have been chosen to be adapted for the big screen, to varying results. Yes, for a man prolific for writing horror novels, when it comes to the big screen, The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, both dramas and not horror novels, are … [Read more...]
Should You Grab(oid) At The Chance Of Seeing Another Tremors Movie?
We at Barking Mad About Films do love a creature feature, and one of the best, in our opinion was the 1990 film, Tremors. Directed by Ron Underwood, who would go on to direct the also excellent City Slickers. Also on his CV is Mighty Joe Young. Ron may be best known, however, for directing the huge Eddie Murphy box office flop: The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Ron now … [Read more...]
Inanimate: Creature feature without excessive CGI
We were aware of a film being made called Harbinger Down, which was in part, funded by fan donations from Kickstarter. Now we at BMAF see many a request to fund Kickstarter films, we are at present following the progress of one called Sky Sharks. We do love a Shark B Movie! The reason that we were were so interested in Harbinger Down was that it woul dbe using practical … [Read more...]