We found a wonderful book the other day which brought us many laughs about the Xenomorph from the Alien franchise. Yes, you read that right, the alien that killed so many in numerous film outings has now been turned into a loveable cartoon character by Joey Spiotto for Titan Books The book is called Alien Next Door: In Space, No one can hear you clean! A moving … [Read more...]
Gremlins: A great film for between Halloween and Christmas
Here we are in the middle of November, Halloween has passed and Christmas is coming, so what better film to watch than Gremlins. As its set during the festive period but with monsters, scary enough for any Halloween so fits in between. We here at Barking Mad About Films love a creature feature and this 1984 classic is one of the best. Written by Chris Columbus, who also … [Read more...]
Film Location, Location, Location!
This Halloween we were looking for something spooky to watch and we saw in the film schedule that Film4 were showing Fragile. Fragile is a 2005 film starring Calista Flockhart who we used to love as TVs Ally McBeal. However, the reason we took notice of this film, was because we knew that it had in part been filmed on the Isle of Wight, home of Barking Mad About … [Read more...]
Christmas Shopping with the movies!
It would seem more and more brands are now using movies to sell their products! Christmas this year seems to have seen it go into overdrive! The leaders are of course for movie-related Christmas Shopping are Star Wars; Minions and of course Disney’s Frozen, from everything to socks and other clothes to Soap and shower gels. Not forgetting of course that we can use movies … [Read more...]
Ghostbusters! We ain’t afraid of no reboot
Every day I see a tweet or a post about how it is an absolute disgrace that Ghostbusters is being remade. What most upsets me is this appears to be because the reboot is having an all female Ghostbusting team. I certainly don’t recall this uproar when Bill Murray; Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson didn't voice the Real Ghostbusters cartoon =) I am a massive fan … [Read more...]