We at Barking Mad About Films love the cinema but the best time for us to go is during the day, we are sure though we can not be the only ones who prefer daytime viewing so we wonder if the multiplex should be more flexible. We are of course aware that during the day is not ideal for everyone, especially those with 9-5 jobs, but working from home we get this time to watch as … [Read more...]
Dunkirk – A War Film Like No Other!
This week, even though we are not a fan of War movies, we went to see Dunkirk, simply because its director Christopher Nolan had given us some cinematic masterpieces such as The Dark Knight and Inception. The film was like nothing we had seen before as it plays almost like a silent movie, in that there is not much in the way of script, we mainly just follow two soldiers … [Read more...]
Is Baywatch Worth a Watch? A BMAF review
Sometimes you want to see a film where you don’t need to give it too much concentration, hence why we ending up going to see Baywatch, even though we had never even seen an episode of the TV show. We especially liked that it was a comedy, which will make a change from all the big action blockbusters being released at the present time. The Baywatch film has plenty to … [Read more...]
Should You Never Go Back To Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher
Our latest rental was Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. A return to the character created by author Lee Child for Tom Cruise. Based on the book of the same name, the film reteams Tom with his The Last Samurai director, Edward Zwick The film opens up with Reacher (Tom Cruise) getting some corrupt police officers arrested for human trafficking. During this sequence, it is … [Read more...]
King Arthur: The Legend of The Sword Review
This week we headed out to see King Arthur: Legend of the Sword the latest film from director Guy Ritchie. This is the King Arthur legend in a way we hadn’t seen before, it takes the legend but adds Ritchie’s style, so we have a hybrid of his earlier films such as Snatch mixed with his more recent Sherlock Holmes films. Unlike the 2004 Antoine Fuqua version of the Arthur … [Read more...]