We at BMAF love going to the cinema, you can't beat seeing a film on the big screen! Granted TV's are getting bigger so you can see more articles of sheds being turned into home cinemas etc but films normally grace cinemas first so we'll always go there Our cinema chain of choice (and we don't have a lot of choice where we live) is Cineworld thanks to there amazing unlimited … [Read more...]
Not A Golden but Free Cinema Tickets
We here at BMaf (Barking Mad about Films) love cinema but we noticed that it has got more and more expensive over the years and with the fast turnaround from big screen to home sometimes it will be worth the wait to own the film for not much more than the price of a cinema ticket We at BMaF are lucky enough to have a Cineworld near us so we have an unlimited card so makes it … [Read more...]
Films: Is less more?
At the recent comi-con it has been rumoured that the new Batman v Superman film will come in at a 'bottom numbing' running time of 164 minutes, is that too long to spend in our favourite dark room? My love of cinema started in the Eighties where it was rare for a film to go over 2 hours and in general most where around the 90-100 minute mark This should surely be the ideal … [Read more...]
Not Another Movie Trailer
I recently saw the great fun film Minions, but what would have made it better had been the fact that I had seen quite a few of the best laughs in trailers before, from the great Geoffrey Rush narrated opening with dinosaurs to Minions sharing baths with fire hydrants, sequences had also been seen via promotions, sky broadband and McDonalds The problem with my argument is that … [Read more...]
Don’t let Subtitles put you off!
Last weekend on our regular movie night at home, I introduced my wife to one of my favourite romantic films ever, the French film Amelie, my wife has partial hearing loss so I knew suggesting a film with subtitles would not be ruled out by her, but does it rule you out? I recall seeing the film at the cinema thanks to free tickets from a newspaper promotion and seeing numerous … [Read more...]