What inspiration have you had to watch a film? For us, at Barking Mad About Films it could be anything. As an example, whilst out for a drive, the song Live it Up by Mental as Anything came on the radio. It’s a song I like, so much so I have it on 12-inch vinyl, not a download. I know it as being featured in the Paul Hogan Eighties classic, Crocodile Dundee, and just … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Shark Films
At the time of writing this, it’s the 2016 Shark Week, which normally means many channels have programmes about these fishy stars of many a film, since one first rose to fame on screen with a simple der dum, der dum theme tune. That film was of course Jaws, despite being 41 years old this year, it remains barking mad about films favourite film. Our love of this film isn’t … [Read more...]
How good is The Good Dinosaur?
This weeks rental was Disney Pixar movie The Good Dinosaur and we didn’t know what to expect! Pixar films used to be a sign of quality but now can be indifferent, whilst we have some sure fire epics like Inside Out, the film prior to this won a best animation Oscar, other hits we love, probably as you do, to name a few are Up!; The Toy Story trilogy; WALL-E; Monsters Inc as … [Read more...]
Bringing New Life To Animated Favourites
Over the last couple of months, we have seen images revealed for Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book directed by Jon (Iron Man) Favreau This is a live action version of the 1967 animated film of the same name, and this seems to be the newest Hollywood trend as this will not be the first. CGI animals will be used using motion capture VFX and it has a very impressive … [Read more...]
BMAF reviews Inside Out, A Pixar Emotion Picture
I had heard good things about this film, most other critics having it in their top 10 films of the year but I had my doubts on the fact that Pixar films, in my opinion, had lost their way of late, Cars was probably their poorest in a while and since then they appear to have played safe with sequels, Cars 2 and Monsters University. I am however pleased to report that Inside … [Read more...]