This weekend at the home of BMaF, Mrs Barking Mad chose our choice of film for our now usual Sunday night ritual. And what a cracker she chose in Disney's Million Dollar Arm. Star of one of our favourite TV shows 'Mad Men' Jon (Donald Draper) Hamm stars as JB who has left his relatively safe sports agent job to go it alone with his friend Aash (Aasif Mandvi), but their one … [Read more...]
Why we can’t wait for the Rosie Project to be a Film Project!
It's no secret that we at BMaF love the actress Jennifer Lawrence, we think that she's a great actress and admit to finding her very nice to look at too =) Her plate of upcoming projects seems to be getting larger & larger and whilst the film Passengers which she is making opposite Chris Pratt is getting the attention, another role she is attached to is that of Rosie in … [Read more...]
Fantastic or Not Fantastic Four?
This week's choice of film for BMaF was one out of curiosity as we chose to see the reboot of the Fantastic Four, a film that seems to have been plagued with issues around its production, which only seem to be enhanced when it was announced the film would not be screening for critics, normally a good sign that the film may not be the best At one point this was even talked about … [Read more...]
Return of my favourite Saint
Growing up like most people of my age my first memories of TV are programmes such as The Clangers, Rainbow, Thunderbirds and Doctor Who but the first programme I can really remember being a fan of was Return of the Saint. Simon Templar was so cool, helping out the damsels in distress, it had a catchy theme, Ian Ogilvy was just so cool (guess he had to be, following 007 Roger … [Read more...]
Were we wild about Wild?
This weekend we watched the 2014 film wild, the true story of one woman's undertaking of a 1100 mile hike following the break up of her marriage and death of her mother Following the death of her mother, Cheryl played by Reese Witherspoon went out of control, sleeping around, drinking and getting a drug addiction which led down to the breakdown of her marriage but having … [Read more...]