Over recent years, TV has been talked about as the new cinema, due to the storytelling of such shows as Game Of Thrones, The Wire and our personal favourite, Breaking Bad. However, it appears this has now come full circle with our cinematic favourites now being turned into the new TV! Of course this idea is not new and can work, one of our favourite TV show’s started its life … [Read more...]
Movies: Something to sing about?
It seems every other day here at the BMAF office we read about another film being remade! Today, for the record it was Dario Argento’s Suspiria! But it seems movie companies are looking everywhere for new content and has seen big shows such as Les Miserables; Into the Woods and even Sweeney Todd leave the stage for the big screen These musicals are also attracting A list … [Read more...]
Jaws: The film we are most ‘Barking Mad’ about so leave it alone!
We, at BMAF, were most alarmed with the news that Steven Spielberg was taking Dreamworks from Disney to Universal. Nothing to be alarmed at, these things happen, Star Wars went from Fox to Disney recently and seems to be in safe hands or so we thought If like us, you are Barking Mad about Films, you probably follow lots of movie-related sites and one post kept coming up; … [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...]
Barking Mad’s favourite ever Animation film is…..
A lot of peoples' favourite animated film will take them to the house of mouse known as Disney Studios, and we at Barking Mad About Films are no different Whilst a lot of those will go for the Lion King, Frozen etc or maybe one of the Pixar efforts such as Toy Story but for us, the one that we watch on repeat viewing is the 2002 release of Lilo and Stitch I have lost count of … [Read more...]