This week's film rental was Joy starring BMAF favourite, Jennifer Lawrence re-teaming with her American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell. It would also reunite her with Bradley Cooper (this would be their fourth time working together as these 2 also starred in Serena)her The film sees Jennifer play Joy Mangano, a divorced mother in the 90’s who … [Read more...]
Burnt: Will it fill you up or leave you still hungry?
Sunday night is film night in the BMAF household, this week's serving of film was Burnt starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. Bradley plays Adam Jones, a top chef who has destroyed his career though his Diva demands and relationship with drugs. The film starts where we learn that Adam has cleaned himself up and ended up in London. Here he hopes to redeem himself by … [Read more...]
10 Cloverfield Lane: It’s really Good Man!
In 2008, a found footage creature feature hit cinemas screens called Cloverfield! Now in 2016, whilst not a direct sequel, we have 10 Cloverfield Lane which is described as a blood relative of that film. Now, we have to be honest and say we struggle really badly with Found Footage films, suffering from motion sickness from the rapid camera movement so we were not fans of the … [Read more...]
When Did You See Your Favourite Star For First Time?
A couple of posts went out over the weekend as it was Valentines Day about it being 25 years to the day that Silence of the Lambs was released. A film I remember most for seeing Jodie Foster, for the first time. I am sure when I was younger, I would have seen her in Bugsy Malone or Freaky Friday but none had the effect on me as she did as her role of agent Clarice … [Read more...]
We Were Glad to Say Yes to Watching Yes Man Again!
If you put us on a spot and said who was our favourite author, we would say without hesitation that it was Danny Wallace! Every Thursday you will find us heading straight to his weekly Shortlist magazine column: http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/danny-wallace-is-a-man and as if to encourage us, his profile picture includes a Chihuahua! The first time we heard about him was … [Read more...]