We are big fans of the Planet of the Apes movie series, but it wasn’t always that way. 🦍 It was one of those things we were aware of, mainly from its TV series and Cartoon in the Seventies, when growing up. But if we saw the movies, we had no real memory of them. In fact we didn’t really discover the movies, until the late Eighties, when we saw the brilliant … [Read more...]
10 SEQUEL/SPIN OFF FILMS WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2024
When we sat down to see what films we were looking forward to seeing in 2024, it was rather sad to see how many where sequels or spin offs to already existing movies. So, we created this separate list of them, and these are the 10 films we are looking forward to in 2024 that are franchises coming to the big screen. We have to be honest, sequels can be a mixed bag and a … [Read more...]
Is it A Christmas Film without the Ho Ho Ho’s?
As yesterday was the first of December, the question most media outlets and film fans ask, is that age old question is Die Hard a Christmas film. Personally, I didn’t know there were rules as to what contributes a Christmas film, do they really need to be about family and feature Santa; reindeer; elves and the like? Definitely would not seem the case as the highest … [Read more...]
Choosing Films by Following A Theme
We at Barking Mad About Films love to theme our movie watching. This year we have for example done Fraser Fridays, in which we would watch a film that starred the actor, Brendan Fraser. We have also done Washington Wednesdays in the same theme but movies of Denzel Washington, we were inspired by this after a rewatch of his two Equalizer films ahead of the third. The … [Read more...]
The Barking Mad About Films Top 10 Films of 2019
In 2019 we saw plenty of films, but these would be the 10 that we loved the most, we are sure you have your own choices but these are ours, so here we go: 10. Zombieland: Double Tap We had concerns with a film getting a sequel after a 10 year gap, but bringing back the original cast with some great additions, this was genuinely a lot of fun. Our review: … [Read more...]