Hi, it is Bill and Teddy the Chihuahua again and time for our AUGUST Barking Mad About Films Newsletter. So, without any further ado, welcome to our JULY review…. BARKING MAD ABOUT JULY We continued our quest to watch at least one film a day, so included may classics as well as new titles. This month was a real mixed bag for us, with all sorts of watches, we … [Read more...]
BMAF FACE A REWATCH OF MANY DISASTERS!
This week our planned cinema visit trip was to see Twisters, a sequel to the 1996 film Twister. We could not really remember it at all, in fact all we really remember was that it features a cow flying into the air because of one of the film’s storm twisters. Other than not a lot else, other than it was by the director of Speed, Jan De Bont and it starred Helen Hunt and … [Read more...]
From the small screen to the big screen
One of our most anticipated film watches this year is the big screen adaptation of The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Being of an age to remember the original series, starring Lee Majors, and from the director of Deadpool 2; Atomic Blonde; Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw and Bullet Train, we can not wait to see it. But it also inspired us to revisit some … [Read more...]
7 Books to Read Ahead of Their Screen Adaptations
Whenever we hear a book is being annouced for a TV or Film adaptation, if the synopsis sounds great, we will seek it out and read before we watch. It may seem odd, I'm sure many would watch then read the source material, but we much prefer our way round, you may do as well? In this blog, we are sharing Seven books from our bookshelf that we have read or about to … [Read more...]
The 10 Things That Makes a Film Watchable For Us!
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...]