1996, the earth came under attack from aliens, in the HUGE box office hit, Independence Day (also known as ID4) from Roland Emmerich & Dean Devlin, reteaming after their huge hit, Stargate. Whilst Stargate would go on to spin off into a hugely popular TV series, it was surprising that ID4 never got a sequel, after all, it was a huge box office success, making some $800m … [Read more...]
BMAF Go Through the Looking Glass
We at Barking Mad About love Tim Burton films, for us he hasn’t made a bad film, but his remakes and reboots whilst hugely enjoyable to watch are not a match for his original tales such as Beetlejuice; Edward Scissorhands; Sleepy Hollow and our personal favourite of his, Ed Wood. His reboots/remakes seem to get him the most criticism starting from his remake of Planet of the … [Read more...]
Why today is a great day to revisit the Pirates of the Caribbean’s first adventure
Today September 19th is the International Talk like a Pirate day http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ and what better film to suggest you enjoy on this day than the original (and by far the best) The Curse of the Black Pearl This is one of those films that has been tainted by not so good sequels (3 at present with another one incoming) but the original is fantastic and gave … [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...]
Fantastic or Not Fantastic Four?
This week's choice of film for BMaF was one out of curiosity as we chose to see the reboot of the Fantastic Four, a film that seems to have been plagued with issues around its production, which only seem to be enhanced when it was announced the film would not be screening for critics, normally a good sign that the film may not be the best At one point this was even talked about … [Read more...]