When we heard about The Shallows film, because of it featuring a shark, it quickly became one of our must-see films of the year. Shark films are a guilty pleasure for us here at Barking Mad About Films, a fact that we’ve blogged about before https://barkingmadaboutfilms-com.stackstaging.com/shark/ Jaws, is our all time favourite film. The film also gave us a fascination … [Read more...]
BMAF Gets A Room (To Watch)
This week’s film choice was Room from director Lenny Abrahamson, based on the book by Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centres on a young woman called Ma (Brie Larson), and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) who we quickly learn are being held captive by the mysterious Old Nick (Sean Bridgers) in the Room of the film title,which has a bed, wardrobe, a … [Read more...]
BMAF watch the Suicide Squad!
It’s been a funny year for Blockbusters, the latest Star Trek, X-Men and Jason Bourne movies have all not been as well received as previous outings. However, Suicide Squad was expected to be the one film to buck that trend. Afer faltering starts from Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, Warner Brothers were hoping this film, also based on DC Comics characters could be the one … [Read more...]
BMAF review Sisters!
This week, Mrs. BMAF had chosen Sisters for our regular Sunday night film to watch. This comedy starred probably 2 of the funniest women about today, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Best known for their television hits 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation, that success has maybe not given them the same amount of screen success, the 2 did star together in the very funny Mean Girls … [Read more...]
Do We Rate High-Rise Highly?
We read J.G. Ballard’s book a while back when we heard High-Rise was to be made into a film. The reason for our interest was that it was to be directed by Ben Wheatley, who had given us amongst others, Down Terrace; Kill List and Sightseers, which we had enjoyed. The story centres around Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston), who in the book we learn is moving to the High-Rise, … [Read more...]