What makes a film watchable? These are the 10 things that we feel make a film watchable – which one is your biggest reason for choosing to watch the films that you do? YOUR CHOICE The most important, and the reason I’ve seen so many B-Movie shark movies with a budget of less than it probably cost to buy the DVD but we can't help it, we just love Shark films. If you … [Read more...]
We Saw 7 Films in 7 Weeks Ahead of Seeing Jigsaw
We are big fans of the Saw franchise, films with plenty of twists and turns and original if terrifying traps, yet they seem to have just been dismissed as ’Torture Porn’ films. The debut film of writer/director team James Wan & Leigh Whannell was an excellent calling card and the two would team up again to bring us the criminally underrated Dead Silence and then huge box … [Read more...]
Should Cinema Be More Flexible In Order To Survive ?
We at Barking Mad About Films love the cinema but the best time for us to go is during the day, we are sure though we can not be the only ones who prefer daytime viewing so we wonder if the multiplex should be more flexible. We are of course aware that during the day is not ideal for everyone, especially those with 9-5 jobs, but working from home we get this time to watch as … [Read more...]
We Watch The War For The Planet of The Apes
This week we saw War For The Planet of the Apes, the third film in a franchise where we consider its 2 predecessors Rise and sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes both 5-star movies in our opinion and already part of our film collection. So War was definitely on our must-see list and it completes a quite frankly brilliant trilogy that had us leaving the cinema with mixed … [Read more...]
King Arthur: The Legend of The Sword Review
This week we headed out to see King Arthur: Legend of the Sword the latest film from director Guy Ritchie. This is the King Arthur legend in a way we hadn’t seen before, it takes the legend but adds Ritchie’s style, so we have a hybrid of his earlier films such as Snatch mixed with his more recent Sherlock Holmes films. Unlike the 2004 Antoine Fuqua version of the Arthur … [Read more...]