One of my first ever memories of going to the cinema would have been to see the re-release of Disney’s animated 1967 classic, The Jungle Book. Since then, it has had an animated sequel and in 1994 Disney made a live action version, starring Jason Scott Lee; John Cleese; Sam Neill and Lena Headey. Various spin-offs featuring Mowgli’s adventures have followed, all heading on … [Read more...]
From Letterbox with Lovefilm!
On Sunday, in the Barking Mad about Films household, it’s movie night. This is when I, with Pepper and Mrs. BMAF, head for our sofa and watch a film, we all want to watch at the end of a busy week. To aid us in this quest, we have the minimum subscription to Lovefilm from Amazon, as although we are lucky enough to have an Amazon Prime subscription, sometimes you just want … [Read more...]
Hush (2016) – Shout it out loud! Its not a remake but something new
In 2014, we enjoyed a horror film with Doctor Who star Karen Gillan called Oculus. So when we heard its writer/director Mike Flanagan had made a new film, Hush, now showing on Netflix, we had to give it a watch. Unlike Oculus, this is not a supernatural horror film, but a home invasion, scary film. Now the home invasion film has been done many times before, examples such … [Read more...]
How Star Wars Made us Revisit Cemetery Junction
This week was a huge week for movie trailers, we got our first look of the return of Ricky Gervais, as his TV legend role of David Brent from The Office. This was followed by a trailer for the first Star Wars origins story Rogue One. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story centres on how the rebels got the plans, that would eventually enable them to destroy the Death Star. One of … [Read more...]
Winters War: The Huntsman returns Thor another adventure
In 2012, We got 2 live action Snow White films that could not be more completely different. We had Mirror, Mirror with Julia Roberts & Lily Collins from Director Tarsem Singh,who was probably best known for the Jennifer Lopez SciFi Horror The Cell. We actually thought this was a lot of fun and a lot better than we expected. We also had Snow White and the Huntsman … [Read more...]