We at Barking Mad About Films do love a Jennifer Lawrence movie, but one other actress we always keep an eye on is Emily Blunt! She always seems to make at least one film that makes our end of year top 10! Examples are 2015 Sicario; 2014 Edge of Tomorrow; 2012 Looper; 2011 The Adjustment Bureau. 2013 She only provided voiceover work for the English version of The Wind Rises … [Read more...]
Review: Are we Nice about The Nice Guys
This week our films choice was the action/buddy movie The Nice Guys. A film we were very much looking forward to as from writer/director Shane Black whose last outing, Iron Man 3 was disappointing, his last film of this genre was Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang which was fantastic. In fact ignoring Iron Man 3, Shane has also written screenplays for epic action/buddy movies such as the … [Read more...]
The Girl With All The Gifts: Coming From Page to Screen
When we heard about a new film coming called The Girl With All The Gifts we were intrigued about it. Finding it was based on a book of the same name by M.R. Carey, we quickly added it to our reading list. If the film is half as good as the book it could be a real must see! It is provisionally set for a September 2016 release. The book which is set in the future has the … [Read more...]
Primal Fear: Head to Court with Norton and Gere!
This week at BMAF HQ, we watched, via Netflix, the 1996 courtroom drama Primal Fear, based on the book by William Diehl. The Film follows Richard Gere as a seemingly unbeatable hotshot lawyer, Martin Vail. When an archbishop is brutally murdered, an altar boy is arrested after fleeing from the crime scene. All evidence would appear to show he is the guilty party. The … [Read more...]
Returning to Stephen King’s Pet Sematary
Stephen King is undoubtedly one of, if not the King of horror, his books have terrified us for decades. So it is no surprise that those books have been chosen to be adapted for the big screen, to varying results. Yes, for a man prolific for writing horror novels, when it comes to the big screen, The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, both dramas and not horror novels, are … [Read more...]