When I was a lot younger, one Actor/Comedian always would have massive hits in the US, but they would never be as popular in the UK, I am of course talking about Adam Sandler. This always used to surprise me. An actor who I had seen in the background of such films as Coneheads and Airheads, as well as the Steve Martin film, Mixed Nuts uit not taken much notice of him. I … [Read more...]
Illness on screen! A prescription for Box Office Success?
This week, Facebook highlighted that we had watched The Fault in our Stars A Teen Romantic Drama about illness, in this instance, sufferers with cancer, a year ago! What was a coincidence was that this week’s film rental was Miss You Already, again a film about someone coming to terms with being diagnosed with cancer. Films dealing with illness, terminal or not as well as … [Read more...]
How is this Romantic in a RomCom?
The other day for our BMAF movie night, I sat down with Mrs BMAF and we scoured Netflix for something to watch. The wife chose Serendipity, a film I had seen a long time ago, but with John Cusack in it I was happy to watch it again! The film is along the lines that things happen for a reason and if its meant to be, its meant to be etc. It concerns Cusack as Jonathan and … [Read more...]
Game over for Adam Sandler? BMAF go to see Pixels
Recently we defended Tom Cruise in our blog and whilst we are not taking credit for it, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation was a box office smash Someone else who also seems to be disliked as much as liked is Adam Sandler, who entered this Summer's crowed Box Office with Pixels based on a short feature, it's premise certainly sounded fun, classic arcade games come down from … [Read more...]