This week we saw the big-budget sequel to the comic book heroes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows. Now if we are honest, we really didn’t like its 2014 predecessor, directed by Jonathan Liebesman, but with the addition of Krang; Rocksteady; Bebop and Casey Jones, we were intrigued. The new film, again written by Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec, is this time … [Read more...]
BMAF Watch Beautiful Creatures In Another YA Book Adaptation
Over the festive period we picked up Beautiful Creatures on BluRay, it was one of those £1 films in Poundland, we hadn’t seen it, didn’t know much about it but knew that it starred Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan, who has been cast as Han Solo in the new Star Wars Anthology film, scheduled for a 2018 release. We had never seen him lead a film before, and looking at his IMDb … [Read more...]
Did We Worship The Gods of Egypt Film?
We recently watched Gods of Egypt, a big budget film that was certainly not a blockbuster upon release. This fantasy adventure had us intrigued as was from director, Alex Proyas who had given us The Crow; Dark City, I,Robot and his last film of 7 years ago, Knowing, all of which we enjoyed, so despite despite it's flop status, we decided to give it a go. In an alternate … [Read more...]
Can Doctor Strange Prescribe A Great Movie To Watch?
Marvel’s Doctor Strange was this week’s cinema visit. We didn’t know much about this character,but being a fan of the BBC hit TV show Sherlock, we wanted to see what Benedict Cumberbatch could do with another iconic comic bookS character. Now we went into this film, not really knowing what to expect, as it was co-written and directed by Scott Derrickson, who we know mostly … [Read more...]
The 33 – A Miner Drama!
Having enjoyed a great holiday, we caught up with a film we had wanted to see but missed during its cinema run. The film was The 33 based on the real life disaster, which saw 33 miners in Chile, trapped underground for 69 days when the mine they were working in collapsed. The film hits hard with an opening statistics that many miners lose their life due to the nature of the … [Read more...]