One of our favourite reads of last year was Patrick Ness novel ‘A Monster Calls’ from an idea by Siobhan Dowd. We discovered the book, after hearing it was to become a Movie, and knew we wanted to read before seeing it! So does the film do the book justice, Patrick Ness had written the script and from the director of The Orphanage and The Impossible, J.A. Bayona we had very … [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...]
Ready Player One For A Great Movie?
Whilst on holiday, we read a couple of books, one being Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. When it was first released we had heard a little about it, but it really hit our radar when it was announced a film adaptation was to follow with Stephen Spielberg to direct. What surprised us most was how excited this made us, he of course. has directed some great films, from Jaws to … [Read more...]
We’re Glad We Visited Miss Peregrine’s Home!
We could not wait to see the movie adaptation of Ransom Riggs book, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, directed by our favourite film director, Tim Burton! With Tim directing and fact that we had loved the book (You can read our review of it here) we had high hopes for this one. Now we read many books, normally we choose them when we hear they are to be filmed … [Read more...]
We Can’t Wait To See Miss Peregrine’s School On Screen
We at BMAF love the films of Tim Burton, no other director is more guaranteed of our bottoms on seats when he has a new film out, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children will certainly continue this trend. An adaptation of the book of the same name by Ransom Riggs, after seeing a synopsis, when we knew Tim was bringing it to the screen, we sought the book out, we have … [Read more...]