We could not wait to see Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets which is based on the popular graphic novel series Valerian. Whilst his last film Lucy was also SyFy, this was big budget fare more like his classic The Fifth Element. The film opens with a montage of first encounters to take us to the 28th Century and Space Station Alpha (known as the City of … [Read more...]
We Watch The War For The Planet of The Apes
This week we saw War For The Planet of the Apes, the third film in a franchise where we consider its 2 predecessors Rise and sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes both 5-star movies in our opinion and already part of our film collection. So War was definitely on our must-see list and it completes a quite frankly brilliant trilogy that had us leaving the cinema with mixed … [Read more...]
We Urge You To Take A Ride With This Baby Driver!
One of our must-see films for 2017 was Baby Driver, Writer/Director Edgar Wright’s first film since The Worlds End way back in 2013, this, of course, being because of that Ant-Man mess, a film we liked, but we are sure Edgar & Joe Cornish would have made an even better version. We are big fans of his work from TV’s Spaced with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, which would … [Read more...]
Hacksaw Ridge: Director Mel Shows Us War is Hell
One of the films we wanted to see at the cinema but missed it due to it getting a surprisingly short run and ourselves being on holiday was Hacksaw Ridge, which was Mel Gibson’s return as director for the first time since Apocalypto way back in 2006 Mel had been battling a few shall we say off-screen problems which saw his front of camera performances reduced to cameos in … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Films revisit Brendan Fraser’s Mummy
With a new telling of The Mummy starring Tom Cruise, we felt it was a good time to re-visit the 1999 version. From Stephen Sommers, who also directed another one of our favourite films, Deep Rising, this film starred Brendan Fraser, in his first real action hero role, having been known for comedies such as Encino/California Man; Blast from the Past and George of the … [Read more...]