What makes a film watchable? These are the 10 things that we feel make a film watchable – which one is your biggest reason for choosing to watch the films that you do? YOUR CHOICE The most important, and the reason I’ve seen so many B-Movie shark movies with a budget of less than it probably cost to buy the DVD but we can't help it, we just love Shark films. If you … [Read more...]
BMAF Go Beyond With Star Trek
This week, we watched Star Trek Beyond. The third for the new Star Trek crew brought to the screen by J.J. Abrams in 2009 and followed up by Star Trek Into Darkness in 2013. We had mixed views going in with direction now being handled by Justin Lin, our concerns being he was more known for his Fast and Furious films, yet we were put at ease knowing Simon Pegg, as well as … [Read more...]
BMAF Rewatch ID4: Independence Day
1996, the earth came under attack from aliens, in the HUGE box office hit, Independence Day (also known as ID4) from Roland Emmerich & Dean Devlin, reteaming after their huge hit, Stargate. Whilst Stargate would go on to spin off into a hugely popular TV series, it was surprising that ID4 never got a sequel, after all, it was a huge box office success, making some $800m … [Read more...]
The next blockbuster, coming to a Sofa near you!
An interesting development appears to be happening in Hollywood at present. Sean Parker, the founder of Napster is developing a project called the Screening Room The idea is that audiences will no longer need to wait for a period of time after the film has left cinemas, to watch it at home. They will be able to watch it at the same time of Cinema release. So you could … [Read more...]
The Hunger Games: Good things come to those who wait!
http://amzn.to/2115X1B In 2011, I used to have a long commute to work so would read many books on my train journey to work, one of the books that was recommended to me was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It was a great recommendation as I read it in no time and quickly devoured its two sequels Catching Fire and Mockingjay! I read with anticipation that the first book … [Read more...]