Hi, it is Bill and Teddy the Chihuahua again and time for our May Barking Mad About Films Newsletter. In our newsletter, we will aim to share some of our thoughts and watches of the month and what we are looking forward to in the next month. So, without any further ado, welcome to our May update…. BARKING MAD ABOUT MAY This month was an incredible average month for … [Read more...]
Are We Bats About The Lego Batman Movie?
So this week we saw The Lego Batman Movie, we must admit we were quite excited about it as the Lego Batman of the Lego Movie was for us the film highlight. Those high hopes increased by the film opening as we get a commentary of the opening titles by Batman (again voiced by Will Arnett) setting up what we hoped would be a lot of fun. The story shows that Bruce … [Read more...]
The Lego Movie, Everything Is Awesome…Maybe?
We at BMAF are planning on seeing The Lego Batman Movie soon, so decided to get ready for it by watching The Lego Movie. From the directing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who brought us 21 and 22 Jump Street, as well as the previous animated success, Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs, this film follows Emmet Brickowoski (voiced by Chris Pratt) a Lego construction … [Read more...]
12 Films Based on The Pages of Comics We Love!
The one genre that is dominating cinema is the comic book hero film, in particular, those from Marvel and DC comics. In fact with shows like Arrow and Supergirl you could argue they are dominating our TV viewing too. We have to admit though we are slightly losing interest with them a bit, we enjoy them and we have quite a few of them in our collection, but maybe we need a … [Read more...]
BMAF Gets A Room (To Watch)
This week’s film choice was Room from director Lenny Abrahamson, based on the book by Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centres on a young woman called Ma (Brie Larson), and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) who we quickly learn are being held captive by the mysterious Old Nick (Sean Bridgers) in the Room of the film title,which has a bed, wardrobe, a … [Read more...]