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...]
Would Streaming end Pound Movies?
The other day we wrote a blog about streaming of movies, due to the Mail running an article that claimed the DVD format was facing the end. This was because a DVD rental by post service was putting its prices up! VHS died out previously, but I for one hope that DVD does not follow. I’ve said before that streaming has issues, such as lack of subtitle options, unable to … [Read more...]
I’m a Veronica!* How a music band helped us rediscover ‘Heathers’
We at Barking Mad about Films love an Australian music band called The Veronicas, a band made of 2 sisters named Lisa and Jessica, they got their band's name from a 1988 black comedy called 'Heathers' a film I remember seeing and enjoying but hadn't watched in a while The Veronica's self titled latest album includes a song called Did You Miss Me (I'm a Veronica) and the I'm a … [Read more...]