We saw a trailer for this film early in the year and it looked good and whilst we try to ignore reviews, the poster is covered with plaudits so on its release we knew we should go with our initial instincts and be seeing this one. Wow! This is a film we will bark to all to see, from Denis Villeneuve who recently directed the also very good 2013 film ‘Prisoners’ starring Hugh … [Read more...]
Before the Sharknado, there was the Mega Shark!
We at BMAF love sharks, we are fascinated by them, which stems from Jaws our favourite movie of all time! We especially love seeing sharks in films. However excluding Disney’s Finding Nemo, sharks on film are always treated as the bad guys from attacking bathers to James Bond and if not deadly enough, they are genetically modified or as in Austin Powers, they have a fricking … [Read more...]
We Were Glad to Say Yes to Watching Yes Man Again!
If you put us on a spot and said who was our favourite author, we would say without hesitation that it was Danny Wallace! Every Thursday you will find us heading straight to his weekly Shortlist magazine column: http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/danny-wallace-is-a-man and as if to encourage us, his profile picture includes a Chihuahua! The first time we heard about him was … [Read more...]
The Martian: One of our Favourite Books now a Film
We discovered Andy Weir’s book late, but everyone I knew that had read it and loved it, so we gave it a go, and we loved it too of course! The story is simple enough, a space exploration team on Mars have to make an emergency evacuation due to changing conditions, during which team member Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) is struck by flying debris and presumed dead, leaving … [Read more...]
Solace: Farrell and Hopkins see into the future
In a quiet week of cinema releases, a film called Solace was released starring Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell, we hadn’t heard of it before, had not even seen a trailer so felt like one of those many direct to DVD’s films Nicolas Cage turns up in of late. So we were quite happy to let this one pass us by until we read an article about the film where we discovered that the … [Read more...]