The reboot/remake is becoming increasingly more popular, with old favourites being turned into new movies or the now popular spin-off TV shows, with Lethal Weapon and Mallrats being the latest to be announced. The idea is of course not new, one of our favourite films of all time John Carpenter’s The Thing was a remake of 1951 classic The Thing From Another World. In … [Read more...]
Film Review: Take Me Home Tonight!
This film, directed by Michael Dowse, who made BritCom It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong and the Ice Hockey comedy Goon, appeared in the TV schedule this week. It’s a film that had passed me by, but my interest was perked by seeing Hollywood Man of the Moment, Chris Pratt was in it. Being a RomCom, I took to the sofa with the wife and gave it a go. The story centres around Matt … [Read more...]
Has Your Favourite Movie Character Gone ‘Pop’ by Funko!
When I was a lad, movie merchandise was in general maybe a tie-in magazine, book, badges, jigsaws, T-shirts and the like but along came Star Wars in 1977, which changed everything, instead of ‘Action Man’, the action figure was born, a 5 inch replica of our heroes Han, Luke and the like (as well as Darth and his troopers of course =) Excellent marketing showed the list of … [Read more...]
Why we can’t wait for the Rosie Project to be a Film Project!
It's no secret that we at BMaF love the actress Jennifer Lawrence, we think that she's a great actress and admit to finding her very nice to look at too =) Her plate of upcoming projects seems to be getting larger & larger and whilst the film Passengers which she is making opposite Chris Pratt is getting the attention, another role she is attached to is that of Rosie in … [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...]