This Halloween we were looking for something spooky to watch and we saw in the film schedule that Film4 were showing Fragile. Fragile is a 2005 film starring Calista Flockhart who we used to love as TVs Ally McBeal. However, the reason we took notice of this film, was because we knew that it had in part been filmed on the Isle of Wight, home of Barking Mad About … [Read more...]
What’s your favourite Movie Car?
Having just seen the latest James Bond 007 film Spectre, like most of its audience we were wowed by the car sequences and the Aston Martin that Bond drove. In fact, Bond cars are almost of much interest, when a film goes into production than the casting of the Bond Bad guy, Bond girl and of course who will sing the Bond theme tune. For the record, it really has to be the … [Read more...]
What Happens Next? Adding to the Film Experience
We have looked in a previous blog at how movies can sell products using everything from Minions to characters from Disney. But it doesn’t just have to be food they can put their name to, clothing, of course is an obvious one. I’ve many a film related T-shirt. Licensing can be a multi-million pound industry, all adding to our film experience! Star Wars is often praised as … [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...]
The Scorch Trials: BMAF goes back to the Maze
If it’s not Sequels; Remakes; Reboots or Comic Book films, it's likely to be a film based on a YA (Young Adult Novel) Our personal favourite is The Hunger Games (Of course having Jennifer Lawrence, being our fav Actress in it, probably helps) but these YA films from books have done exceptionally well from the Twilight Saga/Harry Potter to those that didn’t even get past the … [Read more...]