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...]
Meet the Alien Next Door: Perfect gift for fans of the Alien franchise
We found a wonderful book the other day which brought us many laughs about the Xenomorph from the Alien franchise. Yes, you read that right, the alien that killed so many in numerous film outings has now been turned into a loveable cartoon character by Joey Spiotto for Titan Books The book is called Alien Next Door: In Space, No one can hear you clean! A moving … [Read more...]
Disney’s Million Dollar Arm: You’ll be a ‘Mad Man’ to miss it
This weekend at the home of BMaF, Mrs Barking Mad chose our choice of film for our now usual Sunday night ritual. And what a cracker she chose in Disney's Million Dollar Arm. Star of one of our favourite TV shows 'Mad Men' Jon (Donald Draper) Hamm stars as JB who has left his relatively safe sports agent job to go it alone with his friend Aash (Aasif Mandvi), but their one … [Read more...]